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• Bookmark Who Goes There by John W. Campbell

  Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. under the pen name Don A. Stuart, published August 1938 in Astounding Stories. In 1973, the story was…

  July 16 2010, 3:46am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thing - Wikipedia Thing may refer to: In philosophy: * An object (philosophy), being, or entity * Thing-in-itself (or noumenon), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant In history: * Thing (assembly), also transliterated as ting or þing, a historical Germanic governing…

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• Bookmark 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive

  This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, "12 Events That Will Change Everything," which appears in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American. The presentation was created…

  July 14 2010, 9:05am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

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• Bookmark Last Supper helpings have grown

  An unusual study looks at the food portions in artistic depictions of the Last Supper throughout history. The apostles have eaten better and better over the years, scholars say. The Christian…

  July 11 2010, 4:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Agnostic Cartographer

  Oe fateful day in early August, Google Maps turned Arunachal Pradesh Chinese. It happened without warning. One minute, the mountainous border state adjacent to Tibet was labeled with its usual complement…

  July 11 2010, 4:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Video Games And The Philosophy Of Art

  The film critic Roger Ebert’s recent comments about video games and their potential as art, and especially the immense stir the comments caused on discussion forums all over the internet, shows…

  July 11 2010, 4:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reading in a Whole New Way

  As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change? America was founded on the written word. Its roots spring from documents—the Constitution,…

  July 9 2010, 3:24am | Comments

• Projects first issue of rattle journal

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• foursquare checkin @ Ledbury - Ledbury Poetry Festival, Holly Pester and James Wilkes perform at 9.30pm

  July 2 2010, 10:02am | Comments

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• Bookmark Losing our minds to the web

  Enter Nicholas Carr, a technology writer and Silicon Valley’s favourite contrarian, whose book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Norton) has just come out in the US…

  July 1 2010, 6:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Science historian cracks the 'Plato code'

  A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked "The Plato Code" - the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher's writings. Plato was the Einstein of Greece's…

  July 1 2010, 6:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Borges on Pleasure Island

  Little is quite as dull as literary worship; this essay on Borges is thus happily doomed. One finds oneself tempted toward learned-sounding inadequacies like: His work combines the elegance of mathematical…

  July 1 2010, 2:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind

  In the past, daydreaming was often considered a failure of mental discipline, or worse. Freud labeled it infantile and neurotic. Psychology textbooks warned it could lead to psychosis. Neuroscientists complained that…

  June 29 2010, 11:49am | Comments

• Bookmark The Perils Of Progress

  Pinker, true to type, opens his piece: "New forms of media have always caused moral panics. The printing press, newspapers, paperbacks, and television were all once denounced as threats to their…

  June 29 2010, 11:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Genetic Future: How much data is a human genome? It depends how…

  The question is pretty simple: in the not-too-distant future you and I will have had our entire genomes sequenced (except perhaps those of you in California) - so how much hard…

  June 29 2010, 8:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Why e-books will never replace real books

  Because we perceive print and electronic media differently. Because Marshall McLuhan was right about some things. In case you don't recall one of the more influential thinkers of the late 20th…

  June 29 2010, 8:21am | Comments

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• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Ten movies that never should have been made—and thankfully weren't

  Late last year, a lavish and limited-edition volume was published to honor a masterpiece that never was and never will be: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. At 2,974 pages and 23.8 pounds, it…

  June 28 2010, 2:05am | Comments

• Tumblr via what: Human spinal column / Coloured scanning electron micrograph

  June 27 2010, 5:24pm | Comments

• Flickr On the road again

  June 27 2010, 10:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick, Why Novels are a Weird…

  While mainstream literary figures sometimes praise their fellow writers, rarely do they present themselves publicly as hardcore pop culture fans. Since the publication of his novels Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of…

  June 27 2010, 10:21am | Comments

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• Bookmark The Writer Who Couldn't Read

  "In January of 2002," writes the neuroscientist Oliver Sacks, "I received a letter from Howard Engel, a Canadian novelist describing a strange problem." Engel's problem was so strange, I decided to…

  June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments

• Tumblr via Catch of the Day | Top Cultured

  June 26 2010, 2:20pm | Comments

• Hello Grandad A cube is a shape in three dimensions

  June 24 2010, 6:55am | Comments

• Misc Dispersion Type Artwork Artist Seth Price URL http://www.distributedhistory.com/Dispersion08.pdf Date 2002 Accessed 2010-06-24 10:09:31 Medium PDF

  June 24 2010, 3:09am | Comments

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• Bookmark Who Goes There by John W. Campbell

  Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. under the pen name Don A. Stuart, published August 1938 in Astounding Stories. In 1973, the story was…

  July 16 2010, 3:46am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thing - Wikipedia Thing may refer to: In philosophy: * An object (philosophy), being, or entity * Thing-in-itself (or noumenon), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant In history: * Thing (assembly), also transliterated as ting or þing, a historical Germanic governing…

  July 16 2010, 3:30am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 16 2010, 1:48am | Comments

• Bookmark 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive

  This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, "12 Events That Will Change Everything," which appears in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American. The presentation was created…

  July 14 2010, 9:05am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Last Supper helpings have grown

  An unusual study looks at the food portions in artistic depictions of the Last Supper throughout history. The apostles have eaten better and better over the years, scholars say. The Christian…

  July 11 2010, 4:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Agnostic Cartographer

  Oe fateful day in early August, Google Maps turned Arunachal Pradesh Chinese. It happened without warning. One minute, the mountainous border state adjacent to Tibet was labeled with its usual complement…

  July 11 2010, 4:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Video Games And The Philosophy Of Art

  The film critic Roger Ebert’s recent comments about video games and their potential as art, and especially the immense stir the comments caused on discussion forums all over the internet, shows…

  July 11 2010, 4:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Reading in a Whole New Way

  As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change? America was founded on the written word. Its roots spring from documents—the Constitution,…

  July 9 2010, 3:24am | Comments

• Projects first issue of rattle journal

  July 8 2010, 8:55am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 6 2010, 2:46pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 5 2010, 4:06am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Ledbury - Ledbury Poetry Festival, Holly Pester and James Wilkes perform at 9.30pm

  July 2 2010, 10:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 2 2010, 12:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Losing our minds to the web

  Enter Nicholas Carr, a technology writer and Silicon Valley’s favourite contrarian, whose book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Norton) has just come out in the US…

  July 1 2010, 6:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Science historian cracks the 'Plato code'

  A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked "The Plato Code" - the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher's writings. Plato was the Einstein of Greece's…

  July 1 2010, 6:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Borges on Pleasure Island

  Little is quite as dull as literary worship; this essay on Borges is thus happily doomed. One finds oneself tempted toward learned-sounding inadequacies like: His work combines the elegance of mathematical…

  July 1 2010, 2:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind

  In the past, daydreaming was often considered a failure of mental discipline, or worse. Freud labeled it infantile and neurotic. Psychology textbooks warned it could lead to psychosis. Neuroscientists complained that…

  June 29 2010, 11:49am | Comments

• Bookmark The Perils Of Progress

  Pinker, true to type, opens his piece: "New forms of media have always caused moral panics. The printing press, newspapers, paperbacks, and television were all once denounced as threats to their…

  June 29 2010, 11:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Genetic Future: How much data is a human genome? It depends how…

  The question is pretty simple: in the not-too-distant future you and I will have had our entire genomes sequenced (except perhaps those of you in California) - so how much hard…

  June 29 2010, 8:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Why e-books will never replace real books

  Because we perceive print and electronic media differently. Because Marshall McLuhan was right about some things. In case you don't recall one of the more influential thinkers of the late 20th…

  June 29 2010, 8:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 29 2010, 8:14am | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Ten movies that never should have been made—and thankfully weren't

  Late last year, a lavish and limited-edition volume was published to honor a masterpiece that never was and never will be: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. At 2,974 pages and 23.8 pounds, it…

  June 28 2010, 2:05am | Comments

• Tumblr via what: Human spinal column / Coloured scanning electron micrograph

  June 27 2010, 5:24pm | Comments

• Flickr On the road again

  June 27 2010, 10:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick, Why Novels are a Weird…

  While mainstream literary figures sometimes praise their fellow writers, rarely do they present themselves publicly as hardcore pop culture fans. Since the publication of his novels Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of…

  June 27 2010, 10:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Writer Who Couldn't Read

  "In January of 2002," writes the neuroscientist Oliver Sacks, "I received a letter from Howard Engel, a Canadian novelist describing a strange problem." Engel's problem was so strange, I decided to…

  June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments

• Tumblr via Catch of the Day | Top Cultured

  June 26 2010, 2:20pm | Comments

• Hello Grandad A cube is a shape in three dimensions

  June 24 2010, 6:55am | Comments

• Misc Dispersion Type Artwork Artist Seth Price URL http://www.distributedhistory.com/Dispersion08.pdf Date 2002 Accessed 2010-06-24 10:09:31 Medium PDF

  June 24 2010, 3:09am | Comments

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