May 2012
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How should Shakespeare really sound? - Telegraph →
Romeo and Juliet - extract by British Library Board
April 2012
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Harvard Library to faculty: we're going broke... →
Open-access revolt simmering throughout academia, it would seem …
Why French Parents Are Superior (in One Way) - NYT →
The result is a nation of healthy eaters: 6 million French children sit down every day to school lunches featuring dishes like cauliflower casserole, baked endive, beet salad and broccoli. Vending machines and fast food are banned, and flavored milk is not an option. To introduce kids to a wide variety of foods, no dish can be repeated more than once per month. Food for thought.
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February 2012
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Metaphors Make Brains Touchy Feely - ScienceNOW →
Researchers have found that textural metaphors—phrases such as “soft-hearted”—turn on a part of the brain that’s important to the sense of touch.
In other words, a metaphor triggers both the language part of the brain and the perceptual part of the brain that deals with softness/touch as a physical property.
January 2012
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MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
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Inside the mind of the octopus | Orion Magazine →
Smarter than wolves …
Computer simulation reveals how easy it is to hunt... →
To test that, Raymond Coppinger and his research team at Hampshire College in Massachusetts created a simulation in which five wolves hunted prey by following just two rules. Each wolf would move closer and closer to its prey until it reached a certain safe distance, and then it would start moving away as any other wolf reached that same distance. Those two rules governed the entirety of the...
November 2011
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October 2011
6 posts
You Don't Matter.
bethlehemshoals:
But if millionaires don’t have labor rights, then really, who the fuck does?
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R.I.P., the movie camera: 1888-2011 - Salon.com →
Triassic 'Kraken' may have created self-portrait →
To overwhelm another person … →
September 2011
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Interpretations of Dreams →
“UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in...”
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Scientists Reconstruct Brains’ Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment
Well, I suppose that’s that.
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... dragons ...
(Chesterton)
Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette; or, The... →
The Brain's Fountain of Youth - ScienceNOW →
Dracula may have had it right: Young blood can restore an aging body. Scientists have discovered that blood from a 3-month-old mouse can coax the brain of an older mouse into making new brain cells. The team has not yet identified the rejuvenating factor, but they have found a blood-borne compound that seems to promote brain aging.
I see a new market ready and waiting to be exploited …
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My favorite insult: "female Quixotes"
The true arena for woman’s awakened intellect is, as we hold, at home, and in promoting the progressive improvement of her own sex. Yet even here one not unfrequently meets with female Quixotes, who are for attacking every harmless windmill, which their diseased fancy can convert into a giant. One of these magnified giants in our land Is the evil of light lacing.
From Godey’s...
“That will force cosmologists to an uncomfortable conclusion: the cosmological...”
– More Evidence for a preferred Direction in Spacetime - Technology Review
August 2011
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“Another innovation is Takriz’s strong relationship with soccer fans. The...”
– Streetbook - Technology Review
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Lingodroid Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language... →
CABINET // The Cosmonaut of the Erotic Future →
There is an important exception to this general neglect: Emmanuel Levinas’s reflections on Yuri Gagarin, contained in his short 1961 essay “Heidegger, Gagarin and Us.”
+Lacan &c
July 2011
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On the Ground at the Ron Artest Ultimate Comedy... →
THIS PROVES FREUD WAS 100% CORRECT (about half way down)
Big Baby is Struggling Through the Mirror Stage →