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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark My bright idea: Guy Deutscher

  Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics, his chosen field. In his new book, Through the Language Glass (Heinemann), he fearlessly contradicts the fashionable…

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• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

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• Bookmark The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty

  In the 1990s, Paul Romer revolutionized economics. In the aughts, he became rich as a software entrepreneur. Now he’s trying to help the poorest countries grow rich—by convincing them to establish…

  June 12 2010, 9:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Roger Scruton - Gloom merchant

  The belief that humanity makes moral progress depends upon a wilful ignorance of history. It also depends upon a wilful ignorance of oneself – a refusal to recognise the extent to…

  June 12 2010, 9:19am | Comments

• Bookmark The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when three men who identify…

  In the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach was gripped by an eccentric plan. He gathered three psychiatric patients, each with the delusion that they were Jesus Christ, to live together for…

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• Bookmark 15 Great Movies That Were Never Finished

  Thousands of movies are made every year, and have been almost all the way back to when we first figured out how to make them. We love the theater experience of…

  June 10 2010, 9:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Should This Be the Last Generation?

  Have you ever thought about whether to have a child? If so, what factors entered into your decision? Was it whether having children would be good for you, your partner and…

  June 10 2010, 2:45am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Extracts from The Superhero Handbook

  June 8 2010, 8:09am | Comments

• Hello Grandad This forehead is not a theorem of chin logic

  June 7 2010, 12:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World

  Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers with…

  June 6 2010, 3:54am | Comments

• Twitter

  to read what was never written

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• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Recommend me music without pulse or rhythm. Recommend me music without pulse or rhythm.

  June 1 2010, 7:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Small is Beautiful: a discussion with AAAARG architect Sean Dockray

  One of my favorite websites is the semi-obscure digital library known as AAAARG (don’t even try googling. You just get pirate-themed sites). The site is a sundry collection of critical documents…

  June 1 2010, 2:08pm | Comments

• Hello Grandad 5 things

  June 1 2010, 4:43am | Comments

• Tumblr Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our unive...

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• Bookmark The Pleasures of Imagination

  How do Americans spend their leisure time? The answer might surprise you. The most common voluntary activity is not eating, drinking alcohol, or taking drugs. It is not socializing with friends,…

  June 1 2010, 3:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution and Creativity: Why Humans Triumphed

  Human evolution presents a puzzle. Nothing seems to explain the sudden takeoff of the last 45,000 years—the conversion of just another rare predatory ape into a planet dominator with rapidly progressing…

  June 1 2010, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Michelangelo's secret message in the Sistine Chapel

  At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti—known…

  June 1 2010, 2:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Writing off the UK's last palaeographer

  Dry, dusty and shortly to be dead. Palaeographers are used to making sense of fragments of ancient manuscripts, but King's College London couldn't have been plainer when it announced recently that…

  May 29 2010, 10:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Techno-Archaeology Rescues Climate Data from Early Satellites

  Scientists today who study polar sea ice conditions rely on satellite records reaching back to 1979. But soon, data scientists hope to extend the look back by another decade or more.…

  May 29 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Radio Open Source » The Ecstasy of Influence

  We can’t stop talking about Jonathan Lethem’s essay in this month’s Harper’s. If you haven’t read it, you really should. Nothing that follows in this post will be nearly as interesting.…

  May 29 2010, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine)

  Consider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou, one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The…

  May 29 2010, 2:00am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Hat, Beard, Whatever

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• Bookmark How Slate Edited History

  To test the effects of photographic editing on memory, Slate altered the content or context of five images. The first was a TV screen shot from President Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial,…

  May 28 2010, 4:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Cooking With Dexter - Free Bird

  There’s never been anything like the Internet for helping us find what we want. But when it comes to finding what we didn’t know we wanted, print is magic. Back in…

  May 28 2010, 4:23am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: If the past is a palimpsest, what are we? Ten days ago, Slate Magazine conducted an experiment modeled on the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984: they asked readers to look at eight photographs of notable political moments from the past decade and share their memories about each. Over 5,000 people…

  May 28 2010, 1:12am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 27 2010, 6:01am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Post-Hibernation Blob Performance

  May 27 2010, 4:45am | Comments

• Flickr DC Super-Stars #15 (July-Aug 1977)

  May 26 2010, 9:25am | Comments

• Portfolio audio essay : On Pharaohs, Cults and Parasitism (The Condition of Division)

  May 24 2010, 10:29am | Comments

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark My bright idea: Guy Deutscher

  Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics, his chosen field. In his new book, Through the Language Glass (Heinemann), he fearlessly contradicts the fashionable…

  June 13 2010, 5:33am | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty

  In the 1990s, Paul Romer revolutionized economics. In the aughts, he became rich as a software entrepreneur. Now he’s trying to help the poorest countries grow rich—by convincing them to establish…

  June 12 2010, 9:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Roger Scruton - Gloom merchant

  The belief that humanity makes moral progress depends upon a wilful ignorance of history. It also depends upon a wilful ignorance of oneself – a refusal to recognise the extent to…

  June 12 2010, 9:19am | Comments

• Bookmark The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when three men who identify…

  In the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach was gripped by an eccentric plan. He gathered three psychiatric patients, each with the delusion that they were Jesus Christ, to live together for…

  June 12 2010, 9:18am | Comments

• Flickr

  June 10 2010, 9:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark 15 Great Movies That Were Never Finished

  Thousands of movies are made every year, and have been almost all the way back to when we first figured out how to make them. We love the theater experience of…

  June 10 2010, 9:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Should This Be the Last Generation?

  Have you ever thought about whether to have a child? If so, what factors entered into your decision? Was it whether having children would be good for you, your partner and…

  June 10 2010, 2:45am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Extracts from The Superhero Handbook

  June 8 2010, 8:09am | Comments

• Hello Grandad This forehead is not a theorem of chin logic

  June 7 2010, 12:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World

  Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers with…

  June 6 2010, 3:54am | Comments

• Twitter

  to read what was never written

  June 4 2010, 7:48am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Recommend me music without pulse or rhythm. Recommend me music without pulse or rhythm.

  June 1 2010, 7:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Small is Beautiful: a discussion with AAAARG architect Sean Dockray

  One of my favorite websites is the semi-obscure digital library known as AAAARG (don’t even try googling. You just get pirate-themed sites). The site is a sundry collection of critical documents…

  June 1 2010, 2:08pm | Comments

• Hello Grandad 5 things

  June 1 2010, 4:43am | Comments

• Tumblr Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our unive...

  June 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark The Pleasures of Imagination

  How do Americans spend their leisure time? The answer might surprise you. The most common voluntary activity is not eating, drinking alcohol, or taking drugs. It is not socializing with friends,…

  June 1 2010, 3:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution and Creativity: Why Humans Triumphed

  Human evolution presents a puzzle. Nothing seems to explain the sudden takeoff of the last 45,000 years—the conversion of just another rare predatory ape into a planet dominator with rapidly progressing…

  June 1 2010, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Michelangelo's secret message in the Sistine Chapel

  At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti—known…

  June 1 2010, 2:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Writing off the UK's last palaeographer

  Dry, dusty and shortly to be dead. Palaeographers are used to making sense of fragments of ancient manuscripts, but King's College London couldn't have been plainer when it announced recently that…

  May 29 2010, 10:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Techno-Archaeology Rescues Climate Data from Early Satellites

  Scientists today who study polar sea ice conditions rely on satellite records reaching back to 1979. But soon, data scientists hope to extend the look back by another decade or more.…

  May 29 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Radio Open Source » The Ecstasy of Influence

  We can’t stop talking about Jonathan Lethem’s essay in this month’s Harper’s. If you haven’t read it, you really should. Nothing that follows in this post will be nearly as interesting.…

  May 29 2010, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine)

  Consider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou, one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The…

  May 29 2010, 2:00am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Hat, Beard, Whatever

  May 28 2010, 8:17am | Comments

• Bookmark How Slate Edited History

  To test the effects of photographic editing on memory, Slate altered the content or context of five images. The first was a TV screen shot from President Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial,…

  May 28 2010, 4:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Cooking With Dexter - Free Bird

  There’s never been anything like the Internet for helping us find what we want. But when it comes to finding what we didn’t know we wanted, print is magic. Back in…

  May 28 2010, 4:23am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: If the past is a palimpsest, what are we? Ten days ago, Slate Magazine conducted an experiment modeled on the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984: they asked readers to look at eight photographs of notable political moments from the past decade and share their memories about each. Over 5,000 people…

  May 28 2010, 1:12am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 27 2010, 6:01am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Post-Hibernation Blob Performance

  May 27 2010, 4:45am | Comments

• Flickr DC Super-Stars #15 (July-Aug 1977)

  May 26 2010, 9:25am | Comments

• Portfolio audio essay : On Pharaohs, Cults and Parasitism (The Condition of Division)

  May 24 2010, 10:29am | Comments

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