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• Bookmark How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience | Science | WIRED

  HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

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• Bookmark The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality

  The promise of virtual reality has always been enormous. Put on these goggles, go nowhere, and be transported anywhere. It’s the same escapism peddled by drugs, alcohol, sex, and art —…

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• Instagram 3D Printed Charles Darwin (cc @morehshin @aand_nota)

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  In my dream there was a gameshow called "Haiku Shitface"

  

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• Bookmark An Unstoppable Killer: New Research Suggests Cancer Can't Be Eradicated : NPR

  Since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, the National Cancer Institute has poured some $90 billion into research and treatments. Yet a cure remains elusive.

  August 27 2014, 12:08pm | Comments

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  Or, as Plato once put it, "hair, mud, and dirt."

  

  August 27 2014, 9:01am | Comments

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  New proposal for an internet sensation

  

  August 25 2014, 4:06pm | Comments

• Twitter

  But moving everything to the deep web might take a while

  

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• Bookmark Our weird robot apocalypse: How paper clips could bring about the end…

  If you dread a robot revolt, stop worrying about killer computers, and start worrying about ... paper clips? Nick Bostrom is explaining to me how superintelligent AIs could destroy the human…

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• Bookmark Critical Theory After the Anthropocene | Public Seminar

  One does not have to look far to find intellectuals trained in the humanities, even the social sciences, who feel the need to ‘critique’ the concept of the Anthropocene.

  August 10 2014, 4:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Venter steals top scholar from Google | UTSanDiego.com Mobile

  La Jolla geneticist J. Craig Venter has hired one of the world’s top computer scientists to help him try to prolong and improve people’s lives by deciphering hundreds of thousands of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Weird Philosophy | berfrois

  by Ben Woodard /0/ – Introduction I want to propose, as a trajectory into the philosophically weird, an absurd theoretical claim and pursue it, or perhaps more accurately, construct it as…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark » Interview with Thomas Ligotti The Teeming Brain

  Published in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2006) Some books and authors come into your life at precisely the right moment.

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : The Art of Close Writing

  Jonathan Russell Clark sits at his desk, writing an essay about free indirect discourse. Surrounding him are books by authors who employ the technique with considerable skill: Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert,…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark p-zombies are inconceivable. With notes on the idea of metaphysical possibility. «…

  Philosophy of mind and the nature of consciousness are fascinating topics, which recur both here at Scientia Salon [1] and at my former writing outlet, Rationally Speaking [2].

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Hackers made Iran's nuclear computers blast AC/DC | The Verge

  Between 2009 and 2010, Iran's nuclear program was the target of a devastating cyber attack. A virus, reportedly developed by the American and Israeli governments and known as Stuxnet, took control of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Uvula Audio: At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft : SFFaudio

  Uvula Audio‘s James Campanella has added a complete reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s “quintessential work of horror” to his podcast feed. In China Miéville’s introduction to the Modern Library paperback edition of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark The life of a hoarder - Boing Boing

  Corinna Kern documented the life of George Fowler, a compulsive hoarder. In her photographs is "a closeness between the young woman behind the camera and the old man in front of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark It's Nice That : Photographs document the life of a hoarder with…

  Corinna Kern: George’s World

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  [jim_boulton] A Logic Named Joe - as far as I am aware, this short story from 1946 is the first to accurately describe the web http://t.co/fYioWtsIv1

  

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  Brute Slime

  

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  [negatendo] @therourke @sinkdeep @prosthetic Hehe yep. It sometimes seems sophisticated, but it's just serendipity. Check out https://t.co/RP0EFx27Jr

  

  August 4 2014, 5:32am | Comments

• Instagram Peg's head is the exact same colour as this discarded piece of toast we found…

  July 29 2014, 1:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'A Perfect and Beautiful Machine': What Darwin's Theory of Evolution Reveals About…

  Charles Darwin and Alan Turing, in their different ways, both homed in on the same idea: the existence of competence without comprehension. Francis Crick and James Watson closed their epoch-making paper…

  July 29 2014, 3:06am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Sun Ra's Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971…

  A pioneer of “Afrofuturism,” bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big band.

  July 28 2014, 10:44am | Comments

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  There is no yellow pill.

  

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• Bookmark How Movies Synchronize the Brains of an Audience | Science | WIRED

  HOLLYWOOD, California—Picture a movie theater, packed for the opening night of a blockbuster film. Hundreds of strangers sit next to each other, transfixed. They tend to blink at the same time.…

  August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality

  The promise of virtual reality has always been enormous. Put on these goggles, go nowhere, and be transported anywhere. It’s the same escapism peddled by drugs, alcohol, sex, and art —…

  August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments

• Instagram 3D Printed Charles Darwin (cc @morehshin @aand_nota)

  August 29 2014, 5:23am | Comments

• Twitter

  In my dream there was a gameshow called "Haiku Shitface"

  

  August 29 2014, 12:20am | Comments

• Portfolio Synthetic Assistants

  August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark An Unstoppable Killer: New Research Suggests Cancer Can't Be Eradicated : NPR

  Since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, the National Cancer Institute has poured some $90 billion into research and treatments. Yet a cure remains elusive.

  August 27 2014, 12:08pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Or, as Plato once put it, "hair, mud, and dirt."

  

  August 27 2014, 9:01am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 26 2014, 12:36pm | Comments

• Twitter

  New proposal for an internet sensation

  

  August 25 2014, 4:06pm | Comments

• Twitter

  But moving everything to the deep web might take a while

  

  August 22 2014, 3:16am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 21 2014, 3:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Our weird robot apocalypse: How paper clips could bring about the end…

  If you dread a robot revolt, stop worrying about killer computers, and start worrying about ... paper clips? Nick Bostrom is explaining to me how superintelligent AIs could destroy the human…

  August 18 2014, 5:12pm | Comments

• YouTube

  August 18 2014, 10:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 13 2014, 5:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Critical Theory After the Anthropocene | Public Seminar

  One does not have to look far to find intellectuals trained in the humanities, even the social sciences, who feel the need to ‘critique’ the concept of the Anthropocene.

  August 10 2014, 4:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Venter steals top scholar from Google | UTSanDiego.com Mobile

  La Jolla geneticist J. Craig Venter has hired one of the world’s top computer scientists to help him try to prolong and improve people’s lives by deciphering hundreds of thousands of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Weird Philosophy | berfrois

  by Ben Woodard /0/ – Introduction I want to propose, as a trajectory into the philosophically weird, an absurd theoretical claim and pursue it, or perhaps more accurately, construct it as…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark » Interview with Thomas Ligotti The Teeming Brain

  Published in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2006) Some books and authors come into your life at precisely the right moment.

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : The Art of Close Writing

  Jonathan Russell Clark sits at his desk, writing an essay about free indirect discourse. Surrounding him are books by authors who employ the technique with considerable skill: Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert,…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark p-zombies are inconceivable. With notes on the idea of metaphysical possibility. «…

  Philosophy of mind and the nature of consciousness are fascinating topics, which recur both here at Scientia Salon [1] and at my former writing outlet, Rationally Speaking [2].

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Hackers made Iran's nuclear computers blast AC/DC | The Verge

  Between 2009 and 2010, Iran's nuclear program was the target of a devastating cyber attack. A virus, reportedly developed by the American and Israeli governments and known as Stuxnet, took control of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Uvula Audio: At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft : SFFaudio

  Uvula Audio‘s James Campanella has added a complete reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s “quintessential work of horror” to his podcast feed. In China Miéville’s introduction to the Modern Library paperback edition of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark The life of a hoarder - Boing Boing

  Corinna Kern documented the life of George Fowler, a compulsive hoarder. In her photographs is "a closeness between the young woman behind the camera and the old man in front of…

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark It's Nice That : Photographs document the life of a hoarder with…

  Corinna Kern: George’s World

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  [jim_boulton] A Logic Named Joe - as far as I am aware, this short story from 1946 is the first to accurately describe the web http://t.co/fYioWtsIv1

  

  August 10 2014, 3:20am | Comments

• Twitter

  Brute Slime

  

  August 6 2014, 5:06am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 5 2014, 4:19am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  [negatendo] @therourke @sinkdeep @prosthetic Hehe yep. It sometimes seems sophisticated, but it's just serendipity. Check out https://t.co/RP0EFx27Jr

  

  August 4 2014, 5:32am | Comments

• Instagram Peg's head is the exact same colour as this discarded piece of toast we found…

  July 29 2014, 1:07pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'A Perfect and Beautiful Machine': What Darwin's Theory of Evolution Reveals About…

  Charles Darwin and Alan Turing, in their different ways, both homed in on the same idea: the existence of competence without comprehension. Francis Crick and James Watson closed their epoch-making paper…

  July 29 2014, 3:06am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Sun Ra's Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971…

  A pioneer of “Afrofuturism,” bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big band.

  July 28 2014, 10:44am | Comments

• Twitter

  There is no yellow pill.

  

  July 24 2014, 3:26pm | Comments

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