January 2012
3 posts
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
2 posts
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
10 posts
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.
... 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
6 posts
“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
2 posts
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 →
June 2011
8 posts
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Monologue: I’m... →
Enough of this bullshit. I’m gonna go get hammered with Papyrus.
“Every NBA player, apparently, excels at unconscious trigonometry.”
– Basketball and Jazz | Wired Science
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slut, n. (OED)
2. …
b. In playful use, or without serious imputation of bad qualities.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 21 Feb. (1971) V. 55 Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut and pleases us mightily.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress 112 As the Mother cries out against her Child in her lap, when she calleth it Slut and naughty Girl, and then falls to hugging and kissing it.
1710–1...
in soviet russia, homeowner forecloses bank ... →
À la recherche du temps perdu →
May 2011
23 posts
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“If there’s a storm you still have to go through. In the early days, I gave him a...”
– SLAM ONLINE | » A Boy from Wurzburg
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Big buck hunter ... →
… enjoys a rabid following among trendy urbanites who most likely have never held a gun.
I’m going to need to see some data for that claim, New York Times.
… elegant prose … →
“But to get his hands inside a catfish’s mouth legally, Knowlton must go to...”
– There’s More Than One Way to Land a Catfish in Texas | The Texas Tribune
Newt Gingrich Has ‘Dancing Queen’ As Ringtone,... →
But, let’s be clear. Every. Single. Person. Is forgetting the most important thing about Newt Gingrich: he’s an old (@fiatluxemburg). Check the Wonkette picture for confirmation, if the ringtone isn’t enough.
“Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave...”
– Fields of watermelon burst in China farm fiasco | AP
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Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy... →
Nuclear Proetry →