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• 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

• Bookmark Beware, your imagination leaves digital traces

  by Bruno Latour ’Who would know how to love without having read novels?” This saying seems to take on a new meaning with the multiplication of virtual worlds, even though the…

  May 19 2010, 7:18am | Comments

• Bookmark What did Jesus do? (Reading and Unreading the Gospels)

  When we meet Jesus of Nazareth at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, almost surely the oldest of the four, he’s a full-grown man. He comes down from Galilee, meets…

  May 19 2010, 3:52am | Comments

• Hello Grandad The perfect woollen primate?

  May 19 2010, 2:19am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

  May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why science fiction matters for people who don’t read science fiction

  Science fiction dates as quickly as any genre, and Bradbury is not entirely immune to this. The futuristic rocket ships he wrote about in 1950 look a lot like the first-generation…

  May 16 2010, 4:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark Astral Weeks: An unexpected, and welcome, DeLillo discovery

  In Don DeLillo's latest novel, the weirdly exciting "Point Omega," a character is "trying to read science fiction but nothing she'd read so far could begin to match ordinary life on…

  May 16 2010, 4:33pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 16 2010, 4:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Gottschall's Problem

  These are fighting words. But can the scientific model really be applied to literature? Some of the scholars I talked to regard science’s push into the humanities as an intrusion, an…

  May 16 2010, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Believe it or Not

  I think I am very close to concluding that this whole “New Atheism” movement is only a passing fad—not the cultural watershed its purveyors imagine it to be, but simply one…

  May 16 2010, 4:19pm | Comments

• Bookmark Thinking Again

  Then there is the odd privilege of existence as a coherent self, the ability to speak the word “I” and mean by it a richly individual history of experience, perception, and…

  May 16 2010, 4:17pm | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Tate Modern - 4 metres square

  May 15 2010, 10:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Theses on Sustainability

  [1] THE TERM HAS BECOME so widely used that it is in danger of meaning nothing. It has been applied to all manner of activities in an effort to give those…

  May 15 2010, 4:25am | Comments

• Hello Grandad On plasticine worlds, orbiting pinker stars, the fingers of your left hand have all grown nostrils

  May 15 2010, 4:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Spiders Devour Ants Front-End First

  A spider that only eats ants is choosy about which body parts of its prey it devours based on their nutritional value. These new findings are the first to demonstrate that…

  May 14 2010, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On Other Planets (Or In…

  Want to know what life will look like on other planets? Look no farther than these five creatures, who are already prepared for life on Saturn's moon Titan - or in…

  May 14 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Eureka! Neural evidence for sudden insight

  A recent study provides intriguing information about the neural dynamics underlying behavioral changes associated with the development of new problem solving strategies. The research... supports the idea of "a-ha" moments in…

  May 14 2010, 2:28am | Comments

• Bookmark My Famicase Exhibition 2010

  With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The premise?…

  May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Game Design as Make-Believe (4): Fictional Worlds

  When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this. It…

  May 12 2010, 3:28pm | Comments

• Hello Grandad A thousand times more

  May 12 2010, 3:01pm | Comments

• Flickr Tre somari ..

  May 11 2010, 2:24am | Comments

• Hello Grandad By mapping smile clusters in a small region of Happy Space, one becomes aware of the finescale structure of the…

  May 10 2010, 10:30am | Comments

• Findings The Ship Argo

  May 9 2010, 12:37pm | Comments

• Podcast /noise : Blues, Reds (and some Yellows)

  May 9 2010, 7:21am | Comments

• Bookmark European and Asian genomes have traces of Neanderthal

  The genomes of most modern humans are 1–4% Neanderthal — a result of interbreeding with the close relatives that went extinct 30,000 years ago, according to work by an international group…

  May 9 2010, 6:53am | Comments

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• 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

• Bookmark Beware, your imagination leaves digital traces

  by Bruno Latour ’Who would know how to love without having read novels?” This saying seems to take on a new meaning with the multiplication of virtual worlds, even though the…

  May 19 2010, 7:18am | Comments

• Bookmark What did Jesus do? (Reading and Unreading the Gospels)

  When we meet Jesus of Nazareth at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, almost surely the oldest of the four, he’s a full-grown man. He comes down from Galilee, meets…

  May 19 2010, 3:52am | Comments

• Hello Grandad The perfect woollen primate?

  May 19 2010, 2:19am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

  May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why science fiction matters for people who don’t read science fiction

  Science fiction dates as quickly as any genre, and Bradbury is not entirely immune to this. The futuristic rocket ships he wrote about in 1950 look a lot like the first-generation…

  May 16 2010, 4:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark Astral Weeks: An unexpected, and welcome, DeLillo discovery

  In Don DeLillo's latest novel, the weirdly exciting "Point Omega," a character is "trying to read science fiction but nothing she'd read so far could begin to match ordinary life on…

  May 16 2010, 4:33pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 16 2010, 4:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Gottschall's Problem

  These are fighting words. But can the scientific model really be applied to literature? Some of the scholars I talked to regard science’s push into the humanities as an intrusion, an…

  May 16 2010, 4:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Believe it or Not

  I think I am very close to concluding that this whole “New Atheism” movement is only a passing fad—not the cultural watershed its purveyors imagine it to be, but simply one…

  May 16 2010, 4:19pm | Comments

• Bookmark Thinking Again

  Then there is the odd privilege of existence as a coherent self, the ability to speak the word “I” and mean by it a richly individual history of experience, perception, and…

  May 16 2010, 4:17pm | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Tate Modern - 4 metres square

  May 15 2010, 10:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Theses on Sustainability

  [1] THE TERM HAS BECOME so widely used that it is in danger of meaning nothing. It has been applied to all manner of activities in an effort to give those…

  May 15 2010, 4:25am | Comments

• Hello Grandad On plasticine worlds, orbiting pinker stars, the fingers of your left hand have all grown nostrils

  May 15 2010, 4:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Spiders Devour Ants Front-End First

  A spider that only eats ants is choosy about which body parts of its prey it devours based on their nutritional value. These new findings are the first to demonstrate that…

  May 14 2010, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On Other Planets (Or In…

  Want to know what life will look like on other planets? Look no farther than these five creatures, who are already prepared for life on Saturn's moon Titan - or in…

  May 14 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Eureka! Neural evidence for sudden insight

  A recent study provides intriguing information about the neural dynamics underlying behavioral changes associated with the development of new problem solving strategies. The research... supports the idea of "a-ha" moments in…

  May 14 2010, 2:28am | Comments

• Bookmark My Famicase Exhibition 2010

  With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The premise?…

  May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Game Design as Make-Believe (4): Fictional Worlds

  When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this. It…

  May 12 2010, 3:28pm | Comments

• Hello Grandad A thousand times more

  May 12 2010, 3:01pm | Comments

• Flickr Tre somari ..

  May 11 2010, 2:24am | Comments

• Hello Grandad By mapping smile clusters in a small region of Happy Space, one becomes aware of the finescale structure of the…

  May 10 2010, 10:30am | Comments

• Findings The Ship Argo

  May 9 2010, 12:37pm | Comments

• Podcast /noise : Blues, Reds (and some Yellows)

  May 9 2010, 7:21am | Comments

• Bookmark European and Asian genomes have traces of Neanderthal

  The genomes of most modern humans are 1–4% Neanderthal — a result of interbreeding with the close relatives that went extinct 30,000 years ago, according to work by an international group…

  May 9 2010, 6:53am | Comments

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