Today’s readings included…
Carl Sagan on Mastering the Vital Balance of Skepticism & Openness Seven years ago this week, David Foster Wallace argued that “learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some...
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What it’s like to have Nazi grandparents How the coming wave of ultra-cheaping computing devices will change everyone’s lives The world is slowly getting better (LGBT) Does globalization mean we will...
View ArticleRay Bradbury 1920-2012
The tributes are rapidly coming in today on the spreading news of Ray Bradbury’s passing. Neil Gaiman’s blog post and Guardian write up are particularly great; along with Time’s articles here and here;...
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This graduate short film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo depicts a future enhanced with bio-augmented reality and a sinister consequence of that technology.
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Today’s bookmarks…
Rolling Stone has a Q&A with David Cross on ‘Arrested Development’ This elaborates on the politics of The Dark Knight movies This’ll make you feel old: For incoming college freshmen, Kurt Cobain...
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Bookmarks 13/12/12
40,000 LEDs and a perfect tree 10 favourite tweets the Modern Seinfeld account (Comedy gold Jerry! Gold!) Six scientists tell us about the most accurate science fiction in their fields The hum that...
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Several Bookmarks…
Ars Technica’s craziest Craigslist posts of 2012 Buzzfeed’s 27 science fictions that became science facts in 2012 io9′s Most futuristic predictions that came true in 2012 NYP asks designers for their...
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Overdue Bookmarks
The ‘end of history’ illusion and why we can’t imagine getting old “The finite is nested within the infinite” (or my favourite parable: somewhere in infinity, an alternate universe exists where you...
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