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• Bookmark Incredible Journeys

  Some animals can instinctively solve navigational problems that have baffled humans for centuries. Now, researchers are uncovering how. The nervous system of the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis, with around 100,000 neurons,…

  March 1 2010, 9:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Should We Clone Neanderthals?

  If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454…

  March 1 2010, 3:58am | Comments

• Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

  March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Portfolio 3quarksdaily Prize : Vote for me

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• Podcast /noise : Music Your Mum Would Hate

  February 26 2010, 2:29pm | Comments

• YouTube

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• Bookmark Publishing: The Revolutionary Future

  Though Gutenberg's invention made possible our modern world with all its wonders and woes, no one, much less Gutenberg himself, could have foreseen that his press would have this effect. And…

  February 24 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Technologies of Culture: The Archive

  "'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind…

  February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Sacrifice, speech, writing and art Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers. The notion for instance that the sacrament, at the point of its acceptance, is understood…

  February 24 2010, 5:28am | Comments

• YouTube

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• YouTube

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter

  In the wake of the controversy that greeted his paper, Everett encouraged scholars to come to the Amazon and observe the Pirahã for themselves. The first person to take him up…

  February 21 2010, 4:00pm | Comments

• Podcast /noise : Unique or forgotten cover tracks

  February 20 2010, 4:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy

  by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow…

  February 19 2010, 6:37am | Comments

• Flickr Rational Robot

  February 17 2010, 4:16pm | Comments

• Bookmark Caleb Larsen's A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

  Perpetual online auction, internet connection, custom programming and hardware, acrylic cube... Combining Robert Morris' Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard's writing on the art auction this sculpture…

  February 14 2010, 5:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark Black Hole Simulator

  Get sucked in

  February 14 2010, 4:03am | Comments

• Podcast /noise on 12th February 2010 / theme = I Don't Understand

  February 13 2010, 5:38am | Comments

• Podcast /noise : Songs We’ve Never Heard Before From Records We’ve Never Played Before

  February 12 2010, 5:39am | Comments

• Vimeo

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• Flickr Tron Mosh

  February 10 2010, 12:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Time

  (A Glitch Lecture by ∆¥∆)

  February 10 2010, 12:33pm | Comments

• YouTube

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• Flickr amsterdam in the fog

  February 10 2010, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Code is Law

  Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about the…

  February 7 2010, 9:20am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

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  February 2 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Manipulating Reality - How Images Redefine the World

  Manipulating Reality presents a selection of 23 artistic approaches that work through photography and video to develop possible models of reality. Its aim is not to understand whether photographs can convey…

  January 29 2010, 4:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Lunar Archaeology

  In a meeting today in Sacramento, commissioners might vote to register items left behind on the moon by Apollo astronauts "as an official State Historical Resource," the L.A. Times reports. After…

  January 29 2010, 1:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Leonardo da Vinci's Resume

  From the Codex Atlanticus, this is a letter that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in 1482 to the Duke of Milan advertising his services as a "skilled contriver of instruments of war".…

  January 29 2010, 1:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark For The Love Of Culture

  In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient Truth-decided…

  January 27 2010, 2:17pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Incredible Journeys

  Some animals can instinctively solve navigational problems that have baffled humans for centuries. Now, researchers are uncovering how. The nervous system of the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis, with around 100,000 neurons,…

  March 1 2010, 9:17am | Comments

• Bookmark Should We Clone Neanderthals?

  If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454…

  March 1 2010, 3:58am | Comments

• Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

  March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Portfolio 3quarksdaily Prize : Vote for me

  March 1 2010, 3:27am | Comments

• Podcast /noise : Music Your Mum Would Hate

  February 26 2010, 2:29pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 25 2010, 10:06am | Comments

• Bookmark Publishing: The Revolutionary Future

  Though Gutenberg's invention made possible our modern world with all its wonders and woes, no one, much less Gutenberg himself, could have foreseen that his press would have this effect. And…

  February 24 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Technologies of Culture: The Archive

  "'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind…

  February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Sacrifice, speech, writing and art Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers. The notion for instance that the sacrament, at the point of its acceptance, is understood…

  February 24 2010, 5:28am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 23 2010, 11:43am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 23 2010, 11:21am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter

  In the wake of the controversy that greeted his paper, Everett encouraged scholars to come to the Amazon and observe the Pirahã for themselves. The first person to take him up…

  February 21 2010, 4:00pm | Comments

• Podcast /noise : Unique or forgotten cover tracks

  February 20 2010, 4:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy

  by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to follow…

  February 19 2010, 6:37am | Comments

• Flickr Rational Robot

  February 17 2010, 4:16pm | Comments

• Bookmark Caleb Larsen's A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

  Perpetual online auction, internet connection, custom programming and hardware, acrylic cube... Combining Robert Morris' Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard's writing on the art auction this sculpture…

  February 14 2010, 5:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark Black Hole Simulator

  Get sucked in

  February 14 2010, 4:03am | Comments

• Podcast /noise on 12th February 2010 / theme = I Don't Understand

  February 13 2010, 5:38am | Comments

• Podcast /noise : Songs We’ve Never Heard Before From Records We’ve Never Played Before

  February 12 2010, 5:39am | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 11 2010, 3:21am | Comments

• Flickr Tron Mosh

  February 10 2010, 12:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Time

  (A Glitch Lecture by ∆¥∆)

  February 10 2010, 12:33pm | Comments

• YouTube

  February 10 2010, 12:25pm | Comments

• Flickr amsterdam in the fog

  February 10 2010, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Code is Law

  Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about the…

  February 7 2010, 9:20am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 2 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Manipulating Reality - How Images Redefine the World

  Manipulating Reality presents a selection of 23 artistic approaches that work through photography and video to develop possible models of reality. Its aim is not to understand whether photographs can convey…

  January 29 2010, 4:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Lunar Archaeology

  In a meeting today in Sacramento, commissioners might vote to register items left behind on the moon by Apollo astronauts "as an official State Historical Resource," the L.A. Times reports. After…

  January 29 2010, 1:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Leonardo da Vinci's Resume

  From the Codex Atlanticus, this is a letter that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in 1482 to the Duke of Milan advertising his services as a "skilled contriver of instruments of war".…

  January 29 2010, 1:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark For The Love Of Culture

  In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient Truth-decided…

  January 27 2010, 2:17pm | Comments

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