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  Bespoke pets: Just press “print” | The Economist

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  An Essay on the New Aesthetic

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  The Making of The Rings of Saturn

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  Brutal shade of a fugue state

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

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  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

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  Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask

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  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

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  Written jointly by philosopher of religion Charles Taliaferro and visual artist Jil Evans, The Image in Mind takes up a suggestion of Suzanne Langer that religious thought operates primarily with images…

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  Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

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  Marx at 193

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  The Alan Lomax Sound Archive Now Online: Features 17,000 Recordings

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  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

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  This graft, this hybridization, this composition that puts heterogeneous bodies together may be called a monster

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  Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)

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  Wandering the LA Convention Center at WESTEC - the ultimate manufacturing show from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers… wandering the amazing tools, waterjets, 3D printers, CNCs, microCNCs, robot arms, welding devices……

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  There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the attempt…

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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.

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  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

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  Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

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  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

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  "The act of writing may be nothing but an act of controlled violence... The book explodes with infuriating legibility." - Edmond Jabes

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  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

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  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

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  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

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  Bespoke pets: Just press “print” | The Economist

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

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  An Essay on the New Aesthetic

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

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  The Making of The Rings of Saturn

  April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments

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  Brutal shade of a fugue state

  April 5 2012, 2:37am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

  April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

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  Next What?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask

  April 3 2012, 2:33pm | Comments

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  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark A universe without purpose

  The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

  April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination

  Written jointly by philosopher of religion Charles Taliaferro and visual artist Jil Evans, The Image in Mind takes up a suggestion of Suzanne Langer that religious thought operates primarily with images…

  April 2 2012, 2:34pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  Marx at 193

  March 29 2012, 3:17pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Alan Lomax Sound Archive Now Online: Features 17,000 Recordings

  March 29 2012, 12:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Sound of the Internet

  If the internet makes a sound (and it does), are you listening? Our correspondent uses software to transform the digital ephemera of web browsing—from network traffic to JavaScript, browser histories to…

  March 29 2012, 9:44am | Comments

• Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

  March 29 2012, 8:44am | Comments

• Twitter

  This graft, this hybridization, this composition that puts heterogeneous bodies together may be called a monster

  March 29 2012, 8:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)

  March 29 2012, 1:35am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 28 2012, 7:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Ways Machines Can Hurt You

  Wandering the LA Convention Center at WESTEC - the ultimate manufacturing show from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers… wandering the amazing tools, waterjets, 3D printers, CNCs, microCNCs, robot arms, welding devices……

  March 28 2012, 3:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation

  A data haven is "the information equivalent to a tax haven," a country that helps you evade other countries' rules on what you can and can't do with your bits. (Think…

  March 28 2012, 3:42am | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse

  There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the attempt…

  March 28 2012, 1:43am | 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

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  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

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  Oldest Alien Planets Found—Born at Dawn of Universe

  March 27 2012, 2:05pm | Comments

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  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

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  "The act of writing may be nothing but an act of controlled violence... The book explodes with infuriating legibility." - Edmond Jabes

  March 27 2012, 7:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and You

  This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing focuses…

  March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments

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  Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

  March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments

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  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

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