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• Bookmark On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces

  We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over the…

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• Flickr 50 Years of Space Exploration

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• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

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• Bookmark Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison

  After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard copies…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

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• Bookmark Stunning Images of Herds from Above [PICS]

  Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an animal…

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• Bookmark An Interview with W. Brian Arthur

  Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does their…

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• Bookmark Altermodern: A Conversation with Nicholas Bourriaud

  Independent curator and critic Bartholomew Ryan interviews Nicholas Bourriaud, author of the seminal book Relational Aesthetics and curator of the fourth Tate Triennial, Altermodern, which remains on view in London at…

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  Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the…

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• Bookmark Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation learn differently

  The author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the way…

  September 29 2009, 11:27pm | Comments

• Flickr PKD letter to Jeff Walker regarding "Blade Runner"

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• Findings PKD letter to Jeff Walker regarding "Blade Runner"

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• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

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• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Is the Internet melting our brains?

  By now the arguments are familiar: Facebook is ruining our social relationships; Google is making us dumber; texting is destroying the English language as we know it. We're facing a crisis,…

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• Bookmark Thinking literally

  Drawing on philosophy and linguistics, cognitive scientists have begun to see the basic metaphors that we use all the time not just as turns of phrase, but as keys to the…

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• Bookmark Fictional Stimulus

  Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new to…

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  September 18 2009, 8:22am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical proportions | Ask Metafilter The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years - Would it be possible to cordon off a section of land, somewhere in the…

  September 18 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Beyond space and time: To the Nth Dimension

  We don't have any trouble coping with three dimensions – or four at a pinch. The 3D world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely a…

  September 18 2009, 1:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Must science declare a holy war on religion?

  This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new book,…

  September 17 2009, 2:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars

  Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library. No…

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• Bookmark HOW TO: Write a Novel Using the Web

  Though you’ll still have to do your writing using the old fashioned method — one word at a time — web applications and social media have made the process of writing…

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  October 13 2009, 2:59pm | Comments

• Bookmark On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces

  We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over the…

  October 12 2009, 9:56am | Comments

• Flickr 50 Years of Space Exploration

  October 11 2009, 11:26am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 10 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of the Work of Art

  In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element…

  October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison

  After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard copies…

  October 8 2009, 9:05am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 6 2009, 3:02am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion

  October 4 2009, 9:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Stunning Images of Herds from Above [PICS]

  Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an animal…

  October 4 2009, 5:16pm | Comments

• Bookmark An Interview with W. Brian Arthur

  Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does their…

  October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Altermodern: A Conversation with Nicholas Bourriaud

  Independent curator and critic Bartholomew Ryan interviews Nicholas Bourriaud, author of the seminal book Relational Aesthetics and curator of the fourth Tate Triennial, Altermodern, which remains on view in London at…

  October 3 2009, 8:36am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 2 2009, 7:27am | Comments

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  October 1 2009, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark lose/lose

  Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the…

  October 1 2009, 5:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation learn differently

  The author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the way…

  September 29 2009, 11:27pm | Comments

• Flickr PKD letter to Jeff Walker regarding "Blade Runner"

  September 28 2009, 10:35am | Comments

• Findings PKD letter to Jeff Walker regarding "Blade Runner"

  September 28 2009, 10:35am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

  September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Is the Internet melting our brains?

  By now the arguments are familiar: Facebook is ruining our social relationships; Google is making us dumber; texting is destroying the English language as we know it. We're facing a crisis,…

  September 28 2009, 9:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Thinking literally

  Drawing on philosophy and linguistics, cognitive scientists have begun to see the basic metaphors that we use all the time not just as turns of phrase, but as keys to the…

  September 28 2009, 8:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Fictional Stimulus

  Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new to…

  September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 28 2009, 8:44am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 18 2009, 8:22am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical proportions | Ask Metafilter The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years - Would it be possible to cordon off a section of land, somewhere in the…

  September 18 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Beyond space and time: To the Nth Dimension

  We don't have any trouble coping with three dimensions – or four at a pinch. The 3D world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely a…

  September 18 2009, 1:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Must science declare a holy war on religion?

  This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new book,…

  September 17 2009, 2:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars

  Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library. No…

  September 17 2009, 2:24am | Comments

• Bookmark HOW TO: Write a Novel Using the Web

  Though you’ll still have to do your writing using the old fashioned method — one word at a time — web applications and social media have made the process of writing…

  September 17 2009, 12:27am | Comments

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