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Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs
Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs
Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark You're (Maybe) Gonna Need a Patent for That Woolly Mammoth | WIRED
The mouse didn't look like much. It had the same red beady eyes and white fur as any other laboratory mouse. Sure, its DNA had been tweaked to make it ideal…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Closing of the Scientific Mind - David Gelernter, Commentary Magazine
The huge cultural authority science has acquired over the past century imposes large duties on every scientist. Scientists have acquired the power to impress and intimidate every time they open their…

April 8 2021, 5:55am | Comments
Bookmark 1st preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says | Live…
The first dinosaur butthole ever discovered is shedding light where the sun don't shine. The discovery reveals how dinosaurs used this multipurpose opening — scientifically known as a cloacal vent —…

March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments
Bookmark Humans Will Probably Evolve to Be Venomous
Could future humans evolve to have venom glands? In new research, scientists close a long-open door by causally linking early salivary glands with what eventually became venom glands in many animals.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark The biological research putting purpose back into life | Aeon Essays
Animal immune systems depend on white blood cells called macrophages that devour and engulf invaders.

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark Terraforming the Earth, Redesigning the World | CCCB LAB
The term terraforming refers to the transformation of the ecosystems of other planets or satellites to enable them to support Earth-like life.

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark Revolutionary archaeology reveals the deepest possible Anthropocene | Aeon Essays
Humanity’s transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is one of the most important developments in human and Earth history. Human societies, plant and animal populations, the makeup of the atmosphere,…

October 2 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark Do Cyborgs Have Politics? — Pax Solaria
Image by Jamy van Zyl In 1986, Science and Technology Studies scholar Langdon Winner launched a debate about the power of technologies to shape human politics when he asked “do artefacts…

August 20 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark Revolution or Ruin - Journal #110 June 2020 - e-flux
We know how the first paragraph begins. We’ve read about the changing climate for over twenty years, infrequently at first and then daily until we couldn’t deny it any longer. The…

June 30 2020, 7:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic - Scientific…
As a clinical geneticist, Paul James is accustomed to discussing some of the most delicate issues with his patients. But in early 2010, he found himself having a particularly awkward conversation…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark Is DNA Hardware or Software? - Grow by Ginkgo
In mid-January, a group of computer scientists and biologists from the University of Vermont, Tufts, and Harvard announced that they had created an entirely new life form — xenobots, the world’s…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Podcast Cache When did modern humans first arrive in Europe? – podcast | Science…
Nicola Davis speaks to Prof Jean-Jacques Hublin about new archaeological discoveries which reveal that modern humans co-existed with Neanderthals for several thousand years https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2020/may/28/when-did-modern-humans-first-arrive-in-europe-podcast

June 29 2020, 2:46pm | Comments
Bookmark Novel Corona: Posthuman Virus | In the Moment
The novel coronavirus is posthuman in at least two senses. First, and most obviously, because it is oblivious to human intentions, desires, and motives.

April 18 2020, 8:12am | Comments
Bookmark Novel Corona: Posthuman Virus | In the Moment
The novel coronavirus is posthuman in at least two senses. First, and most obviously, because it is oblivious to human intentions, desires, and motives.

April 18 2020, 1:12am | Comments
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 A single inhalation of vapor from dried toad secretion containing 5-methoxy- N, N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) in a naturalistic setting is related… submitted by /u/-AMARYANA- to r/science [link] [comments]

August 28 2019, 8:25pm | 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
Reddit Cannabis may have had high origins, with a new analysis of ancient pollen suggesting it evolved some 3 kilometres above… submitted by /u/mvea to r/science [link] [comments]

May 18 2019, 4:02am | 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

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