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• 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

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• 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

• 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

• 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

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• 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

• 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

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