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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
Bookmark A welcome dose of environmental optimism - environment - 04 July 2015…
From rainforest revival and green technology to social changes, the age of humans is not necessarily a one-way ticket to eco-disaster, argue three new books Will more of the world's cities…

July 7 2015, 4:22pm | Comments
Bookmark HIJACKING THE ANTHROPOCENE
What can lobbyists do when science contradicts their political messages? Some simply deny the science, as many conservatives do with climate change. Others pretend to embrace the science, while ignoring or…

May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments
Bookmark Turing Test success marks milestone in computing history
An historic milestone in artificial intelligence set by Alan Turing - the father of modern computer science - has been achieved at an event organised by the University of Reading.

April 29 2015, 4:19pm | Comments
Bookmark View From Nowhere – The New Inquiry
On the cultural ideology of Big Data.

April 29 2015, 2:25am | Comments
Bookmark New Left Review - Fredric Jameson: The Aesthetics of Singularity
An ontology of the present is a science-fictional operation, in which a cosmonaut lands on a planet full of sentient, intelligent, alien beings.

March 24 2015, 6:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Real Human Being – The New Inquiry
A collection of essays on the work of Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter attempts to move toward a future beyond white supremacist narratives of human universality. The past year’s high profile murders…

March 12 2015, 7:46am | Comments
Bookmark Deep Mining; Deep Time | New Criticals
The digital life is material and submerged, as much as it is immaterial and in the cloud. It is the navy and gold submarine cables set into the ocean bed. Digital…

March 2 2015, 10:22am | Comments
Bookmark The Thing set on survival | Anne Billson | Film | The…
Antarctica, 1982. The first week of winter. Two Norwegians in a helicopter are chasing a sled dog, which flees through the snow to a United States science station, where the 12…

December 9 2014, 1:54pm | Comments
Bookmark John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’: Storyboard vs. finished film | Dangerous Minds
As the film writer Anne Billson has pointed out most critics were wrong about John Carpenter’s The Thing when it was first released in 1982. In general they hated it and…

December 9 2014, 1:54pm | 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 The university as a hackerspace - The Lincoln Repository
In a paper published last year, I argued for a different way of understanding the emergence of hacker culture.

October 8 2014, 1:54am | Comments
Bookmark Did Cancer Evolve to Protect Us? - Scientific American
Could cancer be our cells’ way of running in “safe mode,” like a damaged computer operating system trying to preserve itself, when faced with an external threat? That’s the conclusion reached…

October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark Venter steals top scholar from Google | UTSanDiego.com Mobile
La Jolla geneticist J. Craig Venter has hired one of the world’s top computer scientists to help him try to prolong and improve people’s lives by deciphering hundreds of thousands of…

August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments
Bookmark NIH 3D Print Exchange | A collection of biomedical 3D printable files…
The Exchange is proud to be a featured exhibit at the 2014 USA Science and Festival. In honor of the occasion, we've made our "beta" site public, so visitors to the…

June 9 2014, 5:28am | Comments

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