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Bookmark Are Humans the Greatest Things Made by the Human Hand? - Facts…
What a waste are two thumbs on the space bar. There they sit, nearly flaccid, punctuating the end of each word, awaiting the call to crack stone or to use sharp flakes…

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Additivism More than Human: From the Politics of Plastics to Shifting our Species Into the Unknown

April 16 2016, 9:36am | Comments
Wikipedia Spandrel (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection.

February 1 2016, 4:27am | Comments
Bookmark Cooperation Is What Makes Us Human - Issue 18: Genius - Nautilus
Tales about the origins of our species always start off like this: A small band of hunter-gatherers roams the savannah, loving, warring, and struggling for survival under the African sun. They…

November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark Extrapolation, not Acceleration | Public Seminar
W. H. Auden, New Year Letter, 1941 It would appear that in the twenty-first century, we should probably relinquish a faith in a force external to capital, even if generated by…

October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments
Portfolio Journal Contribution: Exaptation and the Digital Now

August 31 2014, 6:59am | Comments
Bookmark Exaptation & managed serendipity: II - Cognitive Edge Network Blog
In this second of three posts on exaptation I am going to continue to build on reporting discussions and ideas that came out of the Durham conference. In the final post…

February 26 2014, 9:06am | Comments
Bookmark Exaptation & managed serendipity: I - Cognitive Edge Network Blog
The feather original evolved for regulation of temperature, but then evolved for flight. In 1942 a scientist at Raytheon was testing a magnetron, a key component of radar, and noticed that…

February 26 2014, 9:06am | Comments
Portfolio Conference Panel: ‘Exaptation and the Digital Now’
College Art Association annual conference, New Media Caucus affiliated panel ‘Exaptation and the Digital Now’, with Zara Dinnen, Rob Gallagher and Alex Myers, Chicago, February 14th 2014

February 14 2014, 7:44am | Comments
Bookmark Evolution's Other Narrative » American Scientist
Why science would benefit from a symbiosis-driven history of speciation. During a recent meal with a friend who happens to be a successful engineer, I found myself drawn, as usual, into…

November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments
Portfolio RAWerTUNES10dotEXE [3Dude Remix]

May 13 2013, 8:08am | Comments
Bookmark Opinion: The Case Against Species Revival
Editor's note: Stuart Pimm is the Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at Duke University, and the 2006 laureate of the Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences awarded by…

March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments
Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments
Bookmark The social cell
A single cell, such as a bacterium, is the simplest thing that can be alive. In addition to the materials from which it is constructed, it needs three features: a way…

April 30 2012, 10:46am | Comments
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How the refrigerator got its hum

September 26 2011, 4:54am | Comments
Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments

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