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  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…

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• 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…

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  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…

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• Bookmark Radical Ethology: Jussi Parikka's Insect Media

  In a fundamental sense, technology is deeply non-human. While we might apply a humanist logic to the function and workings of technological systems, and view technological objects as extensions of the…

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• Bookmark The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

  A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to…

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  Just as this is an age of great wealth inequality, it is also an age of great inequality of knowledge or, more exactly, factual information. For all its democratic potential, the…

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• foursquare checkin @ Wellcome Collection - 'Dirt' exhibition: "Nothing is so sacred that it cannot become profane. Gravity pulls us into dirt." - Meghna Haldar

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• Misc The Principle of Notworking Concepts in Critical Internet Culture Type Conference Paper Author Geert Lovink URL: hva.nl/lectoraten/documenten/ol09-050224-lovink.pdf Place Hogeschool van Amsterdam Date 24 Februari 2005 Accessed 2011-04-13 Abstract Lector Interactieve Media in het Digitaal Publiek Domein Instituut voor Interactieve Media

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• Bookmark When the King Saved God

  Four hundred years ago, just as William Shakespeare was reaching the height of his powers and showing the new scope and variety of the English language, and just as “England” itself…

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• Misc The Thing Type Film Director John Carpenter Scriptwriter Bill Lancaster Contributor John W. Campbell Jr. Producer David Foster Date 1982 Distributor Universal Pictures Genre Sci-Fi Horror

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• foursquare checkin @ BentoRamen - Tonkotsu Ramen! Porky and delicious: 7.5 out of 10

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• Bookmark Loving the Ghost in the Machine: Aesthetics of Interruption

  In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things. Something unexpected appears seemingly out of nothing and from nowhere. Through a malfunction,…

  April 9 2011, 2:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture

  Internet culture is in a permanent flux. There is no linear growth, neither up nor down. The only certainty is the steady rise, both in absolute and relative numbers of users…

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• Bookmark Views on Evolution, Intelligent Design Hinge on Death Anxiety

  It may be the foundation of modern biology, but fewer than 40 percent of Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution. While frustrated scientists sometimes blame religion for this…

  April 7 2011, 3:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings

  If you try to describe the living processes of the cell in a rather more living language than is typically found in the literature of molecular biology — if you resort…

  April 6 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

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  "Mabuse. Dr. Mabuse!"

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• Bookmark To Have Is to Owe

  We need to understand what philosophers in the Middle Ages, from Italy to India to China, already understood perfectly well: Money is not a thing, and is certainly not a scarce…

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• Bookmark The last stand of the Amazon

  The best way to think about the remaining tribes in 2011 is to imagine a series of concentric circles, all of which interact on each boundary. There are the tribes that…

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• Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

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• Bookmark Capitalism's Dismal Future

  A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since World…

  March 30 2011, 2:30am | Comments

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• 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

• Bookmark Radical Ethology: Jussi Parikka's Insect Media

  In a fundamental sense, technology is deeply non-human. While we might apply a humanist logic to the function and workings of technological systems, and view technological objects as extensions of the…

  April 20 2011, 3:25pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Gang Gang Dance ... That is all

  April 19 2011, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

  A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to…

  April 18 2011, 11:14am | Comments

• Bookmark The Information Essay

  Just as this is an age of great wealth inequality, it is also an age of great inequality of knowledge or, more exactly, factual information. For all its democratic potential, the…

  April 18 2011, 9:42am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 15 2011, 8:01am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 15 2011, 7:58am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Wellcome Collection - 'Dirt' exhibition: "Nothing is so sacred that it cannot become profane. Gravity pulls us into dirt." - Meghna Haldar

  April 14 2011, 7:46am | Comments

• Misc The Principle of Notworking Concepts in Critical Internet Culture Type Conference Paper Author Geert Lovink URL: hva.nl/lectoraten/documenten/ol09-050224-lovink.pdf Place Hogeschool van Amsterdam Date 24 Februari 2005 Accessed 2011-04-13 Abstract Lector Interactieve Media in het Digitaal Publiek Domein Instituut voor Interactieve Media

  April 13 2011, 8:24am | Comments

• Twitter

  Rubbish Junk Trash Detritus Waste Excess Midden Crap Matter Debris Stuff Scrap Shit Litter Garbage Bunkum Clutter Flotsam Ruin Jumble Kipple

  April 13 2011, 1:44am | Comments

• Bookmark When the King Saved God

  Four hundred years ago, just as William Shakespeare was reaching the height of his powers and showing the new scope and variety of the English language, and just as “England” itself…

  April 12 2011, 3:57pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Every word, and the whole of language

  April 12 2011, 9:19am | Comments

• Misc The Thing Type Film Director John Carpenter Scriptwriter Bill Lancaster Contributor John W. Campbell Jr. Producer David Foster Date 1982 Distributor Universal Pictures Genre Sci-Fi Horror

  April 12 2011, 7:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 12 2011, 12:37am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ BentoRamen - Tonkotsu Ramen! Porky and delicious: 7.5 out of 10

  April 11 2011, 12:39pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Velociraptor

  April 11 2011, 12:55am | Comments

• Tumblr Alfred Hitchcock’s Head. In A Refrigerator. With his wife

  April 11 2011, 12:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Loving the Ghost in the Machine: Aesthetics of Interruption

  In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things. Something unexpected appears seemingly out of nothing and from nowhere. Through a malfunction,…

  April 9 2011, 2:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture

  Internet culture is in a permanent flux. There is no linear growth, neither up nor down. The only certainty is the steady rise, both in absolute and relative numbers of users…

  April 9 2011, 2:16am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 8 2011, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Views on Evolution, Intelligent Design Hinge on Death Anxiety

  It may be the foundation of modern biology, but fewer than 40 percent of Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution. While frustrated scientists sometimes blame religion for this…

  April 7 2011, 3:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings

  If you try to describe the living processes of the cell in a rather more living language than is typically found in the literature of molecular biology — if you resort…

  April 6 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

• Twitter

  "Mabuse. Dr. Mabuse!"

  April 6 2011, 5:57am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 5 2011, 6:39am | Comments

• Bookmark To Have Is to Owe

  We need to understand what philosophers in the Middle Ages, from Italy to India to China, already understood perfectly well: Money is not a thing, and is certainly not a scarce…

  April 5 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Bookmark The last stand of the Amazon

  The best way to think about the remaining tribes in 2011 is to imagine a series of concentric circles, all of which interact on each boundary. There are the tribes that…

  April 4 2011, 12:07pm | Comments

• Flickr GLTI.CH Karaoke

  April 3 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

  April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 31 2011, 12:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark Capitalism's Dismal Future

  A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since World…

  March 30 2011, 2:30am | Comments

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