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12 May 09

Wired 10.06: The Man Who Cracked The Code to Everything ...

Word had been out that Stephen Wolfram, the onetime enfant terrible of the science world, was working on a book that would Say It All, a paradigm-busting tome that would not only be the definitive account on complexity theory but also the opening gambit i

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29 Apr 09

The Technium: The Ninth Transition of Evolution

Many folks responded to my inquiry about evidence of a global super-organism. Among the most detailed and well-considered was Nova Spivack's long essay posted on Twine. Twine is a crowd-sourced aggregator of knowledge, superficially like the shared bookma

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12 Jan 09

Boston.com - Ideas - Globe

DO YOU EVER want to change the way you see the world? Wouldn't it be fun to hallucinate on your lunch break? Although we typically associate such phenomena with powerful drugs like LSD or mescaline, it's easy to fling open the doors of perception without

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27 Oct 08

Kevin Kelly -- The Technium

I am not the first, nor the only one, to believe a superorganism is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our planet. No one can dispute the scale or reality of this vast connectivity. What's uncertain

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05 Jan 08

Soviet icon surprises polar scientists - New Zealand, world, sport, business & entertainment news on Stuff.co.nz

Scientists trekking across a little visited part of Antarctica have discovered a bizarre relic of the Soviet Union is dominating the South Pole of Inaccessibility.

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16 Nov 07

Uncanny valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The uncanny valley is a hypothesis about robotics concerning the emotional response of humans to robots and other non-human entities. It was introduced by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970, although drawing heavily on Ernst Jentsch's concept of "t

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15 Jun 07

RichardDawkins.net - The Official Richard Dawkins Website

In our sound-bite political culture, it is unrealistic to expect that every complicated issue will be addressed with the nuance or subtlety it deserves. So I suppose I should not have been surprised earlier this month when, during the first Republican pre

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10 Mar 07

Edge: WHY THERE ALMOST CERTAINLY IS NO GOD By Richard Dawkins

Either Jesus had a father or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it. The same is true of any miracle — and the deliberate and intentional creation of the universe would hav

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Independent Online Edition > Profiles

The scientist, author and campaigning atheist answers your questions, such as 'What would you say at the gates of heaven?'

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