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• 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

• foursquare checkin @ Goldsmiths, University of London - Radio go go at 5pm, listen in at wiredradio.co.uk and I'll buy you some chips

  May 7 2010, 8:22am | Comments

• Flickr the lost childhood

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• Hello Grandad First hung parliament for ant-eaters in decades

  May 7 2010, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark The code within the code

  One of the most beautiful aspects of the genetic code is its simplicity: three letters of DNA combine in 64 different ways, easily spelled out in a handy table, to encode…

  May 7 2010, 2:12am | Comments

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  May 6 2010, 10:56am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Our new neighbours brought it round

  May 4 2010, 2:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Could a Mini Horse Be Bred Small Enough to Fit in Your…

  The world’s smallest horse was born in late April on a farm in New Hampshire. Weighing in at 6 pounds at birth, Einstein appears to have beaten the previous record holder…

  May 4 2010, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K Dick journals to be published next year

  The Exegesis, much anticipated by fans of the writer, will come out in autumn 2011, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt revealed. Dick, who died in 1982 at the age of 53, had…

  May 4 2010, 2:28am | Comments

• YouTube

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• YouTube

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• Bookmark Uniformity and Variability: An Essay in the Philosophy of Matter

  If the planet needs us to speed up information, and slow down matter, what does this mean for the complex relationship between information and nature? There is a growing awareness of…

  May 3 2010, 9:35am | Comments

• Flickr These Mounties

  May 3 2010, 7:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Signs: The most useful thing you pay no attention to

  Signage—the kind we see on city streets, in airports, on highways, in hospital corridors—is the most useful thing we pay no attention to. When it works well, it tells us where…

  May 2 2010, 2:28pm | Comments

• Flickr Mardale 'The Sunken Village' Boundary Wall - Haweswater Reservoir, Lake District National Park

  May 2 2010, 3:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Renaissance

  Zombies are “characters” in the sense recently revived by the critic Aaron Kunin—they are a type whose existence extends beyond any one work or even medium. This is why we can…

  May 1 2010, 9:44am | Comments

• Metafilter Projects: HelloGrandad.com Hello Grandad is a collaborative blog between a writer and an illustrator. We duel with each other in an attempt to freak the other one out - responding with words to an image or with an image to a sequence of words. The…

  May 1 2010, 9:09am | Comments

• Flickr YOUAREALLFUCKED

  April 30 2010, 11:48am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Woe betold (and the Moose of the inky udder)

  April 30 2010, 7:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Giorgio Agamben - What is a Paradigm - Lecture, 2002

  ...we all make use of paradigms in our work, but do we really know what a paradigm is, and what does it mean to use a paradigm in philosophy, in the…

  April 30 2010, 6:39am | Comments

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• 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

• foursquare checkin @ Goldsmiths, University of London - Radio go go at 5pm, listen in at wiredradio.co.uk and I'll buy you some chips

  May 7 2010, 8:22am | Comments

• Flickr the lost childhood

  May 7 2010, 7:04am | Comments

• Hello Grandad First hung parliament for ant-eaters in decades

  May 7 2010, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark The code within the code

  One of the most beautiful aspects of the genetic code is its simplicity: three letters of DNA combine in 64 different ways, easily spelled out in a handy table, to encode…

  May 7 2010, 2:12am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 6 2010, 10:56am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Our new neighbours brought it round

  May 4 2010, 2:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Could a Mini Horse Be Bred Small Enough to Fit in Your…

  The world’s smallest horse was born in late April on a farm in New Hampshire. Weighing in at 6 pounds at birth, Einstein appears to have beaten the previous record holder…

  May 4 2010, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K Dick journals to be published next year

  The Exegesis, much anticipated by fans of the writer, will come out in autumn 2011, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt revealed. Dick, who died in 1982 at the age of 53, had…

  May 4 2010, 2:28am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 3 2010, 9:42am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 3 2010, 9:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Uniformity and Variability: An Essay in the Philosophy of Matter

  If the planet needs us to speed up information, and slow down matter, what does this mean for the complex relationship between information and nature? There is a growing awareness of…

  May 3 2010, 9:35am | Comments

• Flickr These Mounties

  May 3 2010, 7:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Signs: The most useful thing you pay no attention to

  Signage—the kind we see on city streets, in airports, on highways, in hospital corridors—is the most useful thing we pay no attention to. When it works well, it tells us where…

  May 2 2010, 2:28pm | Comments

• Flickr Mardale 'The Sunken Village' Boundary Wall - Haweswater Reservoir, Lake District National Park

  May 2 2010, 3:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Renaissance

  Zombies are “characters” in the sense recently revived by the critic Aaron Kunin—they are a type whose existence extends beyond any one work or even medium. This is why we can…

  May 1 2010, 9:44am | Comments

• Metafilter Projects: HelloGrandad.com Hello Grandad is a collaborative blog between a writer and an illustrator. We duel with each other in an attempt to freak the other one out - responding with words to an image or with an image to a sequence of words. The…

  May 1 2010, 9:09am | Comments

• Flickr YOUAREALLFUCKED

  April 30 2010, 11:48am | Comments

• Hello Grandad Woe betold (and the Moose of the inky udder)

  April 30 2010, 7:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Giorgio Agamben - What is a Paradigm - Lecture, 2002

  ...we all make use of paradigms in our work, but do we really know what a paradigm is, and what does it mean to use a paradigm in philosophy, in the…

  April 30 2010, 6:39am | Comments

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