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Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Bookmark Michelangelo's secret message in the Sistine Chapel
At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti—known…

June 1 2010, 2:44am | Comments
Bookmark Writing off the UK's last palaeographer
Dry, dusty and shortly to be dead. Palaeographers are used to making sense of fragments of ancient manuscripts, but King's College London couldn't have been plainer when it announced recently that…

May 29 2010, 10:04am | Comments
Bookmark Techno-Archaeology Rescues Climate Data from Early Satellites
Scientists today who study polar sea ice conditions rely on satellite records reaching back to 1979. But soon, data scientists hope to extend the look back by another decade or more.…

May 29 2010, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark The code within the code
One of the most beautiful aspects of the genetic code is its simplicity: three letters of DNA combine in 64 different ways, easily spelled out in a handy table, to encode…

May 7 2010, 2:12am | Comments
Wikipedia Steganography Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity. The word steganography is of Greek origin…

April 22 2010, 2:50am | Comments
Bookmark Drosophila, We Hardly Knew Ye
A proposal to change the formal name of Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, has significant implications for research in the life sciences.. Even if you haven’t worked directly with Drosophila…

April 21 2010, 10:58am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Semiotics for Beginners: Codes
In 1972 NASA sent into deep space an interstellar probe called Pioneer 10. It bore a golden plaque. The art historian Ernst Gombrich offers an insightful commentary on this: The National…

April 6 2010, 12:14pm | Comments
Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments
Bookmark Should We Clone Neanderthals?
If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454…

March 1 2010, 3:58am | Comments
Bookmark Time
(A Glitch Lecture by ∆¥∆)

February 10 2010, 12:33pm | Comments
Bookmark Code is Law
Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about the…

February 7 2010, 9:20am | Comments
Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists
Dresden Codak's handy comic-chart of '42 Essential Third-Act Twists' for writers.

October 21 2009, 3:19pm | Comments
Bookmark Music is Math is Beauty
Glenn Marshall is an Irish computer video artist and musician whose recent work has focused on audio visualization programed in the Processing language. Generally the program is left to its own…

June 28 2009, 4:05am | Comments

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