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04 Sep 10
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SpaceCollective Project - Designing Science Fiction Scenarios SpaceCollective Project - Designing Science Fiction Scenarios: The course will be loosely inspired by the movie (and the book) The Man who Fell to Earth in which David Bowie plays an extraterrestrial visitor to our planet. Instead of being an alien from... |
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04 Sep 10
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My 3QD article about Neanderthals is up for a cash prize. Vote for me and I'll buy you a pint bit.ly/9h5ZeH @therourke |
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03 Sep 10
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Cave Painting: Videogames as Art Lanchester allowed that computer games would never tell us as much about character as other forms of narrative, but pointed out two great virtues of the form: “The first is visual: the best games are already beautiful, and I can see no reason why the lo... |
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03 Sep 10
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“[T]he patient forms a distinctive type of object relation based on perpetual and irresistible desire to merge (cont) tl.gd/3fa4ks @therourke |
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03 Sep 10
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Stephen Hawking says there's no theory of everything Three decades ago, Stephen Hawking famously declared that a "theory of everything" was on the horizon, with a 50 per cent chance of its completion by 2000. Now it is 2010, and Hawking has given up. But it is not his fault, he says: there may not... |
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02 Sep 10
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Cover story In the beginning, before there was such a thing as a Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg laid out his rows of metal type and brushed them with ink and, using the mechanism that would change the world, produced an ordinary little schoolbook. It was... |
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02 Sep 10
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The Alchemists of Sound (Part 1) |
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02 Sep 10
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Will the Book Survive Generation Text? Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get.
Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours swamp a fifth of Pakistan. President Mohamed Nasheed,... |
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01 Sep 10
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I'm into the evolving universe idea myself, but as a true Darwinist I am completely against the idea of any 'intention… disq.us/lpltp @therourke |
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01 Sep 10
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Adam Curtis on 'Mad Men' The widespread fascination with the Mad Men series is far more than just simple nostalgia. It is about how we feel about ourselves and our society today. In Mad Men we watch a group of people who live in a prosperous society that offers happiness and... |
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31 Aug 10
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RT @guardiantech: The devil is in Blu-ray's detail bit.ly/ar6rCI @therourke |
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30 Aug 10
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Westerners vs. the World: We are the WEIRD ones It turns out the Machiguenga — whose number system goes: one, two, three, many — are not alone in their thinking. Most people from non-Western cultures introduced to the Ultimatum Game play differently than Westerners. And that is one clue that... |
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30 Aug 10
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First Cannibals Ate Each Other for Extra Nutrition The world's first known human cannibals ate each other to satisfy their nutritional needs, concludes a new study of the remains of cannibal feasts consumed about one million years ago.
The humans-as-food determination negates other possibilities,... |
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30 Aug 10
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An Amoral Manifesto (Part I) Hard Atheism or What Shall I Name This Column?
Hold onto your hats, folks. Although it is perhaps fitting that the actual day on which I sit here at my computer writing this column is April 1st, let me assure you that I do not intend this as a joke. For... |
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30 Aug 10
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RT @jason_silva: RT @brainpicker: The Most Isolated Man on the Planet – the fascinating story of the last survivor of an uncontacted tri ... @therourke |
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30 Aug 10
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The most isolated man on the planet He's an Indian, and Brazilian officials have concluded that he's the last survivor of an uncontacted tribe. They first became aware of his existence nearly 15 years ago and for a decade launched numerous expeditions to track him, to ensure his... |
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30 Aug 10
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Criswell Predicts : Plan 9 From Outer Space Outro |
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30 Aug 10
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Ha-Joon Chang: The net isn't as important as we think Is it really true that the washing machine has changed the world more than the internet?
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago. Of course, the internet is great – I can now google a... |
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29 Aug 10
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YouTube 動画をお気に入りに登録しました -- Push pop youtu.be/G_izvS6sLSs?a @therourke |
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29 Aug 10
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Push pop |
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28 Aug 10
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#Shakespeare : "I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it" @therourke |
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28 Aug 10
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RT @L_A_B_O_R: Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma Puma P ... @therourke |
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28 Aug 10
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The First Church of Robotics THE news of the day often includes an item about some development in artificial intelligence: a machine that smiles, a program that can predict human tastes in mates or music, a robot that teaches foreign languages to children. This constant stream of... |
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28 Aug 10
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The Incredible 2 Headed Transplant grandeurbydelusions:
via MONSTER BRAINS |
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28 Aug 10
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RT @brightabyss: Deleuze's Postscript on the Societies of Control ::: t.co/RMd6h8W @therourke |
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28 Aug 10
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CERN Podcast | Chris Morris Chris Morris is considered to be one of the greatest satirists ever and has been responsible for some of the most controversial, and let’s face it funny, programmes on television. In the UK, comedy writers and performers ranked him number 11 out of the ... |
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28 Aug 10
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Salvador Dali on "What's My Line?" |
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27 Aug 10
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Interpretation as a Fine Art A hot summer day, C not yet out, the Booker judges still busy deciding on this year’s longlist, I go to meet Tom McCarthy. On the way to the cafe, I remember the last time I interviewed him, a couple of years ago, when C was but a distant signal in t... |
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27 Aug 10
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In short: TRY NOT TO DIE TOO HORRIBLY, KIDS In short: TRY NOT TO DIE TOO HORRIBLY, KIDS: |
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27 Aug 10
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Did Humans Make Tools, or Did Tools Make Humans? Is our species, Homo sapiens sapiens, the first cyborg species? Gizmodo/New Scientist has a fascinating article up about how humans evolved as a result of technology. Timothy Taylor, an anthropologist and archaeologist at the University of Bradford in the... |
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27 Aug 10
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Shintaro Kago for #PresidentOfTheWorld @therourke |
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27 Aug 10
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Biosemiotics: Searching for meanings in a meadow Are signs and meanings just as vital to living things as enzymes and tissues? Liz Else investigates a science in the making EVERY so often, something shows up on the New Scientist radar that we just can't identify easily. Is it a bird? Is it a... |
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21 Aug 10
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Ideas of the Century: Non-Critical Thinking Back in 1981, R.M. Hare, in his book Moral Thinking, featured a distinction that today I still find useful. Hare admitted that the distinction was not original with him, but he argued that philosophers have not appreciated its importance. The distinction... |
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19 Aug 10
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Ancient death-grip leaf scars reveal ant–fungal parasitism Parasites commonly manipulate host behaviour, and among the most dramatic examples are diverse fungi that cause insects to die attached to leaves. This death-grip behaviour functions to place insects in an ideal location for spore dispersal from a dead... |
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18 Aug 10
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Reclaiming the Imagination Imagine being a slave in ancient Rome. Now remember being one. The second task, unlike the first, is crazy. If, as I’m guessing, you never were a slave in ancient Rome, it follows that you can’t remember being one — but you can still let your imagi... |
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18 Aug 10
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Forget those creative writing workshops. If you want to write, get threatened One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into writing, presumably figuring that if a drooling gum-brain like me can scrape a living witlessly pawing... |
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18 Aug 10
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Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain There he goes again, making up nonsense and making ridiculous claims that have no relationship to reality. Ray Kurzweil must be able to spin out a good line of bafflegab, because he seems to have the tech media convinced that he's a genius, when... |
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17 Aug 10
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RT @140Artist: #140ART #TWITTERART
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17 Aug 10
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I have no secrets |
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16 Aug 10
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16 Aug 10
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Svetlana Boym | Off-Modern Manifesto “It's not my fault. Communication error has occurred,” my computer pleads with me in a voice of lady Victoria. First it excuses itself, then urges me to pay attention, to check my connections, to follow the instructions carefully. I don'... |
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16 Aug 10
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Porn for the Blind Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge. |
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16 Aug 10
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The internet: is it changing the way we think? Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?".
"Over the past few years," Carr wrote,... |
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16 Aug 10
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SAME HAT! (tumblr) For folks that haven't checked it yet, the newly re-launched SAME HAT TUMBLR is up and running!
The SAME HAT! Tumblr is curated and run by 8 contributors. It features art/videos/music and random whatever from the bowels of the internet-- all stuff... |
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16 Aug 10
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Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia Occasionally, even experienced Wikipedians lose their heads and devote every waking moment to edit warring over the most trivial thing. This page documents our lamest examples. It isn't comprehensive or authoritative, but it serves as a showcase of... |
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16 Aug 10
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If the Earth Stood Still If the earth stood still, the oceans would gradually migrate toward the poles and cause land in the equatorial region to emerge. This would eventually result in a huge equatorial megacontinent and two large polar oceans. The line that delineates the areas... |
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16 Aug 10
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The Mind's I Now available for free online:
The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul (ISBN 0-553-34584-2) is a 1981 book composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. It is a collection of essays and creations about the... |
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16 Aug 10
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The Age of Semi-Post-Modernism It seems to me part of the problem is that the term "postmodernism" was always so muddy and abstract. To different people, it meant (at least) two different things. First of all, for many, "postmodernism" stood as a certain critical... |
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15 Aug 10
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#Writing remembers. It fascinates me how artists/writers can comment on work they made decades earlier. I hate what I wrote last week! @therourke |
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14 Aug 10
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#sunshine #BBQ #hope @therourke |
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