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• Bookmark Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences…

  "Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.…

  April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

  Genetic information storage and processing rely on just two polymers, DNA and RNA, yet whether their role reflects evolutionary history or fundamental functional constraints is currently unknown. With the use of…

  April 20 2012, 12:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Is the "New Aesthetic"?

  The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but also…

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  THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

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  Journal of Digital Humanities

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  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

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• Metafilter A Database of Metaphor The Mind is a Metaphor. A database of thousands of metaphors organized by category, like 18th century, Liquid, or Jacobite. It's maintained by University of Virginia English Professor Brad Pasanek.

  March 27 2012, 7:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”

  “When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting…

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  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

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  Anatomy of Norbiton: labyrinthine

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  Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

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  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

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  The Democracy of Objects

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  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Billion Dollar Brain in a box

  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

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  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

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• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Man as Machine

  A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.

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  Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

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  Re:Thinking Games

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• Bookmark The Era of Networked Science

  The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of…

  January 13 2012, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia”: A Discussion

  Lars von Trier’s latest has been overshadowed by the director’s ill-judged comments at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. This is a pity because, as Film Quarterly Writer-at-Large NINA POWER and editor…

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  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

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• Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth

  Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

  December 9 2011, 8:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthal Neuroscience

  As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and his…

  November 21 2011, 2:09am | Comments

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• Bookmark Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences…

  "Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.…

  April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

  Genetic information storage and processing rely on just two polymers, DNA and RNA, yet whether their role reflects evolutionary history or fundamental functional constraints is currently unknown. With the use of…

  April 20 2012, 12:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Is the "New Aesthetic"?

  The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but also…

  April 19 2012, 1:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface

  April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tumblr ❤ GIFs

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Journal of Digital Humanities

  April 9 2012, 4:24am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Mastery of Non-Mastery

  April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Metafilter A Database of Metaphor The Mind is a Metaphor. A database of thousands of metaphors organized by category, like 18th century, Liquid, or Jacobite. It's maintained by University of Virginia English Professor Brad Pasanek.

  March 27 2012, 7:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Christian Marclay created “The Clock”

  “When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting…

  March 18 2012, 4:30pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Anatomy of Norbiton: labyrinthine

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference

  March 9 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?

  The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

  March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Democracy of Objects

  March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

  February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Billion Dollar Brain in a box

  Officially, the Swiss Academy of Sciences meeting in Bern on 20 January was an overview of large-scale computer modelling in neuroscience. Unofficially, it was neuroscientists' first real chance to get answers…

  February 24 2012, 3:33pm | Comments

• Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

  February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments

• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Man as Machine

  A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.

  February 9 2012, 10:34am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

  January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Speculative Realism Pathfinder

  January 19 2012, 2:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Era of Networked Science

  The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of…

  January 13 2012, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia”: A Discussion

  Lars von Trier’s latest has been overshadowed by the director’s ill-judged comments at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. This is a pity because, as Film Quarterly Writer-at-Large NINA POWER and editor…

  January 11 2012, 5:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth

  Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

  December 9 2011, 8:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthal Neuroscience

  As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and his…

  November 21 2011, 2:09am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Threshold science

  November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments

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