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Bookmark As Sea Levels Rise, Scientists Offer a Bold Idea: Dam the North…
A proposal to build two huge barriers — one that would connect Norway to Scotland, the other France to England — was described as a warning about the urgency of the…

February 18 2020, 6:26pm | Comments
Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…
Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

November 13 2019, 5:17pm | Comments
Podcast Cache Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about…
Prof Stuart Russell wrote the book on artificial intelligence back in 1995, when the next few decades of AI were uncertain. Sitting down with Ian Sample, he talks about his latest book, which warns of a dystopian future…

October 18 2019, 5:36am | Comments
Reddit Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter on the planet: 4.5 trillion are littered each year. New research… submitted by /u/ratterstinkle to r/science [link] [comments]

July 19 2019, 7:30pm | Comments
Bookmark Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA | WIRED
When biologists synthesize DNA, they take pains not to create or spread a dangerous stretch of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin or, worse, an infectious disease.

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Podcast Cache The ancient Greeks warned us about AI: Chips with Everything podcast |…
Author Adrienne Mayor discusses the myths that contained the first blueprints for artificial intelligence https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2018/nov/02/the-ancient-greeks-warned-us-about-ai-chips-with-everything-podcast

November 2 2018, 12:42pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Decolonising Science Reading List – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – Medium
A note on Making Meaning of “Decolonising” — and in relation to that I want to be clear that the original motivation behind the creation of this list was to address a land claim issue: the use of Maunakea by…

March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments
Bookmark Decolonising Science Reading List – Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – Medium
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March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments
Bookmark 50 Years Ago Big Oil Bragged About Being Able To Melt Glaciers,…
Newly-released oil industry documents push back the start date of the world’s most successful disinformation campaign to the 1960s, if not earlier.

September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Singularities and Sisyphean Spikes in literature and film Looking for literary/filmic examples of singularities, infinite pits, wormholes, whirlpools, bore holes, large spacetimes in tiny crevices. But also... Peaks too high to navigate, infinite ascents, Sisyphean feats of endurance, energy spikes set to break reality, very tall towers.

July 2 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Bookmark Radicalism Begins in the Body | Boston Review
Junot Díaz interviews science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany about what it means to be an aging sex radical and why he wrote the essay “Ash Wednesday.” Junot Díaz: Chip, “Ash…

June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark Humans Can Now "Print" Genetic Code and Engineer Life
We have learned how to manipulate the code of life. Why this hasn’t received more attention is beyond me. Synthetic Biology is a multidisciplinary field that often defies definition. Yet despite…

February 14 2017, 11:08am | Comments
Bookmark A is for Afrofuturism — Cyberfeminism vs. Afrofuturistfeminism
There are differences and sameness on some accounts within cyberfeminism versus afrofuturistfeminism, I’ll quickly list the basics.

January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Bookmark Towards a statistical mechanics of consciousness: maximization of number of connections is…
Authors: R. Guevara Erra, D. M. Mateos, R. Wennberg, J.L. Perez Velazquez Abstract: It has been said that complexity lies between order and disorder. In the case of brain activity, and…

October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments
Bookmark Atomic bombs and oil addiction herald Earth’s new epoch: The Anthropocene |…
Just after World War II, when the atomic bombs fell and our thirst for coal and oil became a full-blown addiction, Earth entered the Anthropocene, a new geologic time when humanity’s…

September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments
Bookmark All of the Reasons Scientists Are Certain We Are Now Living in…
“Human activity is leaving a pervasive and persistent signature on Earth.” So begins one of the more depressing scientific papers I’ve ever read.

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Minimal’ cell raises stakes in race to harness synthetic life : Nature…
Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent organism.

March 29 2016, 2:35pm | Comments
Bookmark Must the Anthropocene be a Manthropocene? | Kate Raworth | Opinion |…
Are we entering a new planetary era? A working group of scientists met in Berlin last week to start answering this Earth-shifting question.

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Additivism Hyperallergic Interview: “Your Shiny Plastic Future Is a Load of Crap”
“Your Shiny Plastic Future Is a Load of Crap”: #Additivism interviewed for HyperallergicGretta Louw interviewed us for Hyperallergic:It was hugely important to us that the manifesto undermine the position from which it is situated. We tried to show the limits and contradictions in our…

February 15 2016, 8:23am | Comments
Additivism Sonic Acts #Additivism Workshop (29 Feb - 1 Mar, 2016)
Sign up: Sonic Acts #Additivism Workshop (29 Feb - 1 Mar, 2016) There are still places available for our #Additivism Workshop at Sonic Acts Academy, on the theme of ‘Post-Nature’. Sign up!Workshop The 2-day 3D Additivism workshop, which will take place immediately after the…

January 28 2016, 6:04am | Comments
Metafilter A few seconds closer to Midnight? Today The Doomsday Clock will have its time recalibrated. In 2015 the scientists set the hands to 23.57 - "due to climate change, the modernization of nuclear weapons in the United States and Russia, and the problem of nuclear waste." Is the apocalypse…

January 26 2016, 6:31am | Comments
Bookmark The Dialogical Avatar: a presentation with Donna Haraway&&& Journal
as the central speaker and facilitator. Aside from the Cyborg Manifesto, it constitutes one of Haraway’s most extended engagements with science fiction, and with a specific work of science fiction cinema…

January 14 2016, 5:42am | Comments
Additivism #Additivism Workshop @ Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (Feb/March 2016)
Additivism Workshop @ Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (Feb/March 2016)We are excited to announce a 2 day #Additivism Workshop as part of Sonic Acts Academy, Feb/March 2016 The Sonic Acts Academy relates to topics that are connected to the ‘dark matter’ theme Sonic Acts is currently…

December 22 2015, 4:20am | Comments
Bookmark e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale – SUPERCOMMUNITY – Carolyn L. Kane
Plastics ... A Way to a Better More Carefree Life. Plastic, wrote Roland Barthes circa 1954, is “the first magical substance that consents to be prosaic.”2Roland Barthes, Mythologies, trans. Annette Lavers (New…

November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments
Bookmark Welcome to the age of synthetic biology – it’s all about yeast
Evolution’s retirement plan has been 3.6 billion years in the making. With the appearance of the modern human being, we now have an organism that can take over from natural processes…

October 27 2015, 5:12pm | Comments
Bookmark Ferguson is the Future | Nassau Weekly
On September 14, I spent the day in the Chancellor Green Rotunda at the “Ferguson is the Future” Symposium, and I have spent every day since then trying to process the magnitude…

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark There’s a Mystery Machine That Sculpts the Human Genome - The Atlantic
Genomes are so regularly represented as strings of letters—As, Gs, Cs, and Ts—that it’s easy to forget that they aren’t just abstract collections of data. They exist in three dimensions. They…

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark THE HUMAN LAYER | More Intelligent Life
Is humanity’s impact on its environment so huge that the planet has entered a new geological era: the Anthropocene? The idea is gaining ground—and dividing scientists. Helen Gordon investigates

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark Homo naledi: new species of ancient human discovered, claim scientists | Science…
Explorers happened upon the bones after squeezing through a fissure high up in the rear wall of the Rising Star cave, 50km from Johannesburg, before descending down a long, narrow chute…

October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments
Bookmark Climate Change Means One World's Death and Another's Birth | WIRED
A few years ago in a lab in Panama, Klaus Winter tried to conjure the future. A plant physiologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, he planted seedlings of 10 tropical…

September 1 2015, 7:09am | Comments
Bookmark Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction - The…
In 1968, Samuel Delany attended the third annual Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

August 4 2015, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark If We Cloned Early Humans, Should We Put Them in a Zoo…
Let’s say someone successfully cloned human ancestors. Then what? Are they like chimps, to be put in a zoo or a nature reserve? Do they need carers? Should we enroll them…

July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments

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