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• Bookmark Ants team up to stay dry

  A team of engineers has discovered how colonies of ants survive floods by forming themselves into life rafts. The work shows how many simple components can interact to create complex structures…

  April 28 2011, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule

  Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

  April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments

• Bibliography Potentialities: Collected Essasy in Philosophy (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben

  April 27 2011, 1:46am | Comments

• Bibliography Signature of All Things by Giorgio Agamben

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• Bibliography Theory of Religion by Georges Bataille

  April 27 2011, 1:46am | Comments

• Bibliography Illuminations by Walter Benjamin

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• Bibliography Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography The Universal Turing Machine: A Half-Century Survey: 002 (Computerkultur) by Rolf Herken

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 by Nicolas Bourriaud

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography They Became What They Beheld by Edmund Carpenter

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems by Paul Cilliers

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind (Philosophers and their Critics) by Bo Dahlbom

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography On the Line (Foreign Agents) by Giles Deleuze

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• Bibliography The Order of Things (Routledge Classics): Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography This is not a Pipe 25th Anniversary Edition (Quantum Books) by Michel Foucault

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Rocks Of Ages by Stephen Jay Gould

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• Bibliography Symbolic Economies: After Marx and Freud by Jean-Joseph Goux

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Representations of the Post/Human by Elaine Graham

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Systems of Art: Art, History and Systems Theory by Francis Halsall

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna Haraway

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• Bibliography How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics by Nk Hayles

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts by N Katherine Hayles

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• YouTube

  April 26 2011, 10:40am | Comments

• Bibliography Friday, or the Other Island by Michel Tournier

  April 26 2011, 8:51am | Comments

• Portfolio Overlapping Magisteria

  April 26 2011, 8:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Gif art without the glitch

  I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs. The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated banners…

  April 25 2011, 5:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Analogue artists defying the digital age

  Dusty vinyl records, vintage film cameras, rickety typewriters and antiquated recording equipment … these are the creative tools being used by some emerging artists. Pure nostalgia? Or a laudable refusal to…

  April 24 2011, 6:39am | Comments

• Bibliography Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

  April 24 2011, 3:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Gigantic New SuperOrganism with 'Social Intelligence' is Devouring the Titanic

  In 2000, Roy Cullimore, a microbial ecologist and Charles Pellegrino, scientist and author of Ghosts of the Titanic discovered that the Titanic --which sank in the Atlantic Ocean 97 years ago…

  April 24 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Connecting Science and Art: A Conversation

  Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration…

  April 21 2011, 3:31pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Why is entropy necessary for there to be memory? In the From Eternity to Here episode of the Science Talk podcast, Sean Carroll says that without entropy there could be no memory. Could you provide an explanation of why that is to somebody who's very much a layperson when it comes to…

  April 21 2011, 3:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Insomnia

  Philosophy is no friend of sleep. In his Laws (circa 350 BC), Plato platonized, "When a man is asleep, he is no better than if he were dead; and he who…

  April 21 2011, 2:44am | Comments

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• Bookmark Ants team up to stay dry

  A team of engineers has discovered how colonies of ants survive floods by forming themselves into life rafts. The work shows how many simple components can interact to create complex structures…

  April 28 2011, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Neandertal hybridization & Haldane’s rule

  Mr. James Winters at A Replicated Typo pointed me to a short hypothesis paper, Neanderthal-human Hybrids. This paper argues that selective mating of Neandertal males with females of human populations which had…

  April 28 2011, 3:15am | Comments

• Bibliography Potentialities: Collected Essasy in Philosophy (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben

  April 27 2011, 1:46am | Comments

• Bibliography Signature of All Things by Giorgio Agamben

  April 27 2011, 1:46am | Comments

• Bibliography Theory of Religion by Georges Bataille

  April 27 2011, 1:46am | Comments

• Bibliography Illuminations by Walter Benjamin

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography The Universal Turing Machine: A Half-Century Survey: 002 (Computerkultur) by Rolf Herken

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 by Nicolas Bourriaud

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography They Became What They Beheld by Edmund Carpenter

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems by Paul Cilliers

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind (Philosophers and their Critics) by Bo Dahlbom

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography On the Line (Foreign Agents) by Giles Deleuze

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography The Order of Things (Routledge Classics): Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography This is not a Pipe 25th Anniversary Edition (Quantum Books) by Michel Foucault

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Rocks Of Ages by Stephen Jay Gould

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Symbolic Economies: After Marx and Freud by Jean-Joseph Goux

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Representations of the Post/Human by Elaine Graham

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Systems of Art: Art, History and Systems Theory by Francis Halsall

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna Haraway

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics by Nk Hayles

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• Bibliography My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts by N Katherine Hayles

  April 27 2011, 1:45am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 26 2011, 10:40am | Comments

• Bibliography Friday, or the Other Island by Michel Tournier

  April 26 2011, 8:51am | Comments

• Portfolio Overlapping Magisteria

  April 26 2011, 8:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Gif art without the glitch

  I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs. The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated banners…

  April 25 2011, 5:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark Analogue artists defying the digital age

  Dusty vinyl records, vintage film cameras, rickety typewriters and antiquated recording equipment … these are the creative tools being used by some emerging artists. Pure nostalgia? Or a laudable refusal to…

  April 24 2011, 6:39am | Comments

• Bibliography Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

  April 24 2011, 3:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Gigantic New SuperOrganism with 'Social Intelligence' is Devouring the Titanic

  In 2000, Roy Cullimore, a microbial ecologist and Charles Pellegrino, scientist and author of Ghosts of the Titanic discovered that the Titanic --which sank in the Atlantic Ocean 97 years ago…

  April 24 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Connecting Science and Art: A Conversation

  Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration…

  April 21 2011, 3:31pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Why is entropy necessary for there to be memory? In the From Eternity to Here episode of the Science Talk podcast, Sean Carroll says that without entropy there could be no memory. Could you provide an explanation of why that is to somebody who's very much a layperson when it comes to…

  April 21 2011, 3:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Insomnia

  Philosophy is no friend of sleep. In his Laws (circa 350 BC), Plato platonized, "When a man is asleep, he is no better than if he were dead; and he who…

  April 21 2011, 2:44am | Comments

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