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Bookmark A Matter of Feeling (exploring interzone materials between “inert” and “alive”)
The cosmos is composed of many different species of stardust and despite our advanced, secular knowledge we imagine these primordial substances give rise to a universe, fashioned in our own image.…

September 3 2012, 2:36am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments
Bookmark Digital Curation Resource Guide
Digital curation involves selection and appraisal by creators and archivists; evolving provision of intellectual access; redundant storage; data transformations; and, for some materials, a commitment to long-term preservation. Digital curation is…

August 25 2012, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA
Digital information is accumulating at an astounding rate, straining our ability to store and archive it. DNA is among the most dense and stable information media known. The development of new…

August 18 2012, 5:55am | Comments
Bookmark What Is Life? A 21st Century Perspective | Conversation | Edge
lecture by Craig Venter Life is code, as you heard in the introduction, was very clearly articulated by Schrodinger as code script. Perhaps even more importantly, and something I missed on…

August 8 2012, 3:25am | Comments
Bookmark Scans of Hoarders’ Brains Reveal Why They Never De-Clutter
Hoarding disorder is categorized as “the excessive acquisition of and inability to discard objects, resulting in debilitating clutter,” wrote the researchers behind the new study, led by Yale University School of…

August 7 2012, 12:24am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Speculative Realism 101 Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. I am interested in Speculative Realism (SR) (and Speculative Materialism (SM)) as attempts to overcome 'Philosophies of access' (those which privilege the human being over other entities; anthropocentrism). Also, any texts that…

July 26 2012, 7:40am | Comments
Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software
For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments
Portfolio LISTEN TO MY EXECUTABLES

July 23 2012, 3:06am | Comments
Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter
Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments
Wikipedia Titivillus Titivillus was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes. The first reference to Titivillus by name occurred in Tractatus de Penitentia, c. 1285, by Johannes Galensis, John of Wales.[1] Titivillus…

July 13 2012, 1:00am | Comments
Bookmark DIGITAL FORM DISCUSSION
To what extent do the material components (e.g. hardware, source code, network protocols) and properties (e.g. speed, malleability, erasability) of digital technology influence the methodologies one might employ to study it?…

July 11 2012, 6:37am | Comments
Bookmark Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution
Dyson refutes the idea that scientific revolutions are concept-driven, a stance pioneered by Thomas Kuhn in his controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and later endorsed by other theory-driven…

July 10 2012, 2:42am | Comments
Bookmark Paradigms Regained
The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

June 27 2012, 3:22pm | Comments
Bookmark Sloppy MicroChips: Oh, that’s near enough
Letting microchips make a few mistakes here and there could make them much faster and more energy-efficient. Managing the probability of errors and limiting where they occur can ensure that the…

June 5 2012, 9:18am | Comments
Bookmark What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"
“Look,” Thomas Kuhn said. The word was weighted with weariness, as if Kuhn was resigned to the fact that I would misinterpret him, but he was still going to try—no doubt…

May 30 2012, 2:01am | Comments
Bookmark Peter Krapp: Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (2011)
To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of…

May 23 2012, 9:46am | Comments
Bookmark Methods for Studying Coincidences
With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen. The point is that truly rare events, say events that occur only once in a million [as the mathematician…

May 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments
Bookmark The Arrow of Time (Debategraph)
The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time 'flows'…

May 11 2012, 8:12am | Comments
Bookmark Did a Copying Mistake Build Man's Brain?
A copying error appears to be responsible for critical features of the human brain that distinguish us from our closest primate kin, new research finds. When tested out in mice, researchers…

May 9 2012, 8:14am | Comments
Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different
Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments
Bookmark Psychology of Hoarding: Characteristics of a Hoarder
Infographic on compulsive hoarding

May 4 2012, 3:47am | 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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When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture
The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories…

April 26 2012, 12:43pm | 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
Bookmark Q&A;: The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens
Before we can understand an alien civilization, it might be useful to understand our own. To help in this task, anthropologist Kathryn Denning of York University in Toronto, Canada studies the…

April 6 2012, 2:07am | Comments
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Should we clone Neanderthals?

April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments
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Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments
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Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments
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God and the New Physics by Paul Davies

March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments
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Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

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