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• 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

• Bookmark in Bb 2.0

  In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users. The videos can be played simultaneously…

  September 14 2009, 8:37am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 14 2009, 3:28am | Comments

• Bookmark GOOD COPY BAD COPY

  A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture

  September 14 2009, 3:17am | Comments

• Bookmark 3quarksdaily Philosophy Competition (Judged by Daniel Dennet)

  So, here it is, the final list that I am sending to Professor Dan Dennett, who will select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners: (in alphabetical order by blog name)…

  September 13 2009, 8:37am | Comments

• Bookmark loca london: meta reviews

  Reviews of major exhibitions currently open in London. A Meta-Space containing them all

  September 8 2009, 9:21am | Comments

• Bookmark On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a…

  by Umberto Eco

  September 8 2009, 9:15am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Flickr to a destiny

  August 29 2009, 11:47pm | Comments

• Flickr Karaoke Screens (Flickr Pool)

  August 29 2009, 11:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark If zombies actually existed

  If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out…

  August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments

• Bookmark This Is The Only Level

  This is the Only Level is a 2D platformer in which you have to guide a boldly unanimated elephant over a series of pits, some of which are filled with spikes,…

  August 15 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Cheapest way from Tokyo to Kumamoto? Last minute Japan travel: after making an error with timing I need to arrange one-way travel from Tokyo to Kumamoto quite quickly. What are the cheapest options? I have looked into flights and trains (for the 17th of August) and both seem expensive…

  August 11 2009, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The Man Who Eats Badgers

  To many, the A30 is just a road, but to retired civil servant Arthur Boyt it's more like a delicatessen. Arthur eats roadkill. He has sampled cat, barn owl, squirrel, hedgehog…

  August 10 2009, 6:27am | Comments

• Bookmark How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

  Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists,…

  August 8 2009, 4:41pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 7 2009, 9:13am | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man

  Directed by Philippe Molins - Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the life…

  August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to fake science, history and religion

  One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true…

  August 6 2009, 1:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Higher Arithmetic - How to count to a Zillion

  Last year the National Debt Clock in New York City ran out of digits. The billboard-size electronic counter, mounted on a wall near Times Square, overflowed when the public debt reached…

  August 5 2009, 3:32am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Under Pressure How would you get through a black hole?

  August 3 2009, 6:29pm | Comments

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• 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

• Bookmark in Bb 2.0

  In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users. The videos can be played simultaneously…

  September 14 2009, 8:37am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 14 2009, 3:28am | Comments

• Bookmark GOOD COPY BAD COPY

  A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture

  September 14 2009, 3:17am | Comments

• Bookmark 3quarksdaily Philosophy Competition (Judged by Daniel Dennet)

  So, here it is, the final list that I am sending to Professor Dan Dennett, who will select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners: (in alphabetical order by blog name)…

  September 13 2009, 8:37am | Comments

• Bookmark loca london: meta reviews

  Reviews of major exhibitions currently open in London. A Meta-Space containing them all

  September 8 2009, 9:21am | Comments

• Bookmark On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a…

  by Umberto Eco

  September 8 2009, 9:15am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

  September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments

• Flickr to a destiny

  August 29 2009, 11:47pm | Comments

• Flickr Karaoke Screens (Flickr Pool)

  August 29 2009, 11:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark If zombies actually existed

  If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out…

  August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments

• Bookmark This Is The Only Level

  This is the Only Level is a 2D platformer in which you have to guide a boldly unanimated elephant over a series of pits, some of which are filled with spikes,…

  August 15 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Cheapest way from Tokyo to Kumamoto? Last minute Japan travel: after making an error with timing I need to arrange one-way travel from Tokyo to Kumamoto quite quickly. What are the cheapest options? I have looked into flights and trains (for the 17th of August) and both seem expensive…

  August 11 2009, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark The Man Who Eats Badgers

  To many, the A30 is just a road, but to retired civil servant Arthur Boyt it's more like a delicatessen. Arthur eats roadkill. He has sampled cat, barn owl, squirrel, hedgehog…

  August 10 2009, 6:27am | Comments

• Bookmark How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

  Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists,…

  August 8 2009, 4:41pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 7 2009, 9:13am | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

  August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man

  Directed by Philippe Molins - Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the life…

  August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to fake science, history and religion

  One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true…

  August 6 2009, 1:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Higher Arithmetic - How to count to a Zillion

  Last year the National Debt Clock in New York City ran out of digits. The billboard-size electronic counter, mounted on a wall near Times Square, overflowed when the public debt reached…

  August 5 2009, 3:32am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: Under Pressure How would you get through a black hole?

  August 3 2009, 6:29pm | Comments

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