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Latest
Technology:
Google Glass and the business of monetizing other people's lives
Art:
San Francisco Artmrkt 2013
Politics:
What to do in Syria: ask the Muslims of the world
Music:
Bios of Haxan Cloak, Squadra Omega, King Tears Bat Trip, Zammuno, etc
Poetry:
Octavio Paz's "Epitaph for no Stone"
Cognitive Science:
An introduction to Philosophy of Mind
Music:
Bios of David Peel, Built to Spill, Pantha DuPrince, Nice Face, Grouper, Grails, Monument of Urns, Van Morrison
Book review:
Gopnik's "The Philosophical Baby"
Politics:
What Germany forgot
Essay:
The Medium is the Story
History of Knowledge:
The Victorian Age
Presentation:
An Introduction to Language
Music:
Bios of Michael Jacaszek, Demdike Stare, Sun Araw, Krallice, Tycho, Grouper, Grails, Necro Deathmort, etc
Event:
Panel on "Language" with linguist Lera Boroditsky, filmmaker Jeanne Finley, musician Amy Neuburg and chemical engineer Curtis Frank
Music:
Bios of Third Ear Band, Type O Negative, Terry Riley, Red House Painters
Art:
Olaf Hajek
Event:
Light sculptor Jesse Houlding, NASA scientist Chris McKay on the Curiosity Mars Mission, Vijaya Nagarajan (USF) on the mathematics of India's kolams, etc
Rock music:
Album reviews: Animal Collective, Beach House, Demdike Stare, Godspeed You Black Emperor, My Bloody Valentine, etc
Politics:
The real face of an Afghani terrorist
Essay:
Rules Save Lives but not Brains
Book review:
Koch's "Consciousness"
Politics:
Ten years later in Iraq
Essay:
The Paradox of Parenting
Book review:
Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos"
Essay:
The Age of Experience
History:
"A New History of Prehistory" revised and expanded
Essay:
Paradise
Event:
Kinetic artist Terry Berlier, Curt Frank (Stanford Univ) on the material of painting, Stanford biologist Deborah Gordon on ant societies, choreographer Katharine Hawthorne
Essay:
The Religion of the Future
Politics:
The War on Drugs: What's the Point?
Essay:
Youth Suprematism
Politics:
The value of technology: The USA will not decline any time soon
Technology:
Five new chapters of "Why the Singularity is not Coming"
Rock Music:
Bios of Pop Group, Faust, Neu, Soft Machine
Essay:
The Cognitive Development of Pretty Girls
Politics:
Paralysis in the USA and in Italy
Essay:
The Next Stage in Evolution: The World of Objects
Politics:
If France does it...
Essay:
Life is Overrated
Politics:
North Korea is ready to make a deal
Event:
Luke Muehlhauser on the "Singularity", shadow artist Christine Marie, visual artist Carina Earl, Helene Mialet on Stephen Hawking and cyborgs
Neuroscience:
A Timeline of Neuroscience
Event:
Panel on "Body" with robot scientist Oussama Khatib, multimedia artist Ken Goldberg, Indian classical dancer Antara Bhardwaj and contemporary music performer Sarah Cahill - plus Art Exhibit on "Body"
Hiking:
California Coast
Event:
Computer graphics scientist Alvy Ray Smith Meredith Tromble (San Francisco Art Institute), Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley) on children's minds, cultural historian Piero Scaruffi on "The Age of the Brain"
Neuroscience:
Roger Sperry and the Age of the Brain
Technology:
Inventions that We Need and Inventions we don't Need
History & Science:
A Brief Interdisciplinary History of Body (for the forthcoming SMMMASH at Stanford)
Facebook:
Year-end posts
January birthdays:
A secular calendar of saints
Politics:
Arming teachers
Stills:
Several new film stills
Behavioral Science:
The Genetics and Neuroscience of Torture
Classical Music:
The Essentials
Photo:
The Thinkers
Poetry/Meditation:
Half Moon Epigram
Politics:
Congratulations NRA for another successful massacre!
Videos:
Jennifer Parker (OpenLab), Jennifer Dionne (Stanford Nanotechnology), Mark Wagner (Street Painter) and Audrey Shafer (Stanford Medical Humanities)
Book review:
Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons
Art:
Barry McGee
Technology:
On Replacing Humans with Intelligent Machines
Classical Music:
The Greatest Symphonies
Book review:
The Master Switch - The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
History:
A Timeline of Computing
Art:
Makoto Aida
Poetry/Meditation:
Half Moon Epigram: The Twins
Politics:
Why i still don't believe in the Islamic world
Politics:
China is a colony of the USA
Computer Science:
A Timeline of Artificial Intelligence
Politics:
Israel, Hamas and human sacrifice
Essay:
We are building a weaker and weaker species while creating a more and more dangerous world
Book review:
Peter Bergen's "Manhunt"
Free eBook:
A Visual History of the Visual Arts
Essays:
For a Theory of Creativity
Travel:
Ireland, Belgium, Germany, France
Presentation:
Space: An introduction
Event:
SMMMASH: Chris McKay (NASA), Anne Fougeron (Architect), George Legrady (Multimedia Art)
Science:
The Fittest Species: Who is Winning the War for Survival
Videos:
Jacobson on Sustainable Energy, Berlier on junk sculpture, Leonard on Antartica sounds, etc
Book review:
Bailenson, Jeremy & Jim Blascovich: "Infinite Reality" (William Morrow, 2011)
Travel:
A guide to Britain and Ireland
Science:
The Biggest Problem of All: The End of the World is Coming
History:
A Timeline of Cyberculture
Presentation:
sPaCe
Hiking:
Best hikes of 2012
History:
A New History of Prehistory
Art:
A compilation of stencil art
Interviews:
Digital artist George Legrady, green architect Anne Fougeron, planetary scientist Chris McKay
Politics:
Islam and Modernity
Essay:
Big Data and the Death of Theory
Politics:
Why not Iran
Science:
Artificial Omnipotency
Politics:
A referendum on Ayn Rand
Art:
Carina Earl
Book review:
Deutsch's "The Beginning of Infinity"
Science:
A timeline of modern science and technology
Book review:
"The Artificial Ape"
Politics:
Democracy and marketing
Book review:
"The Rise of Asia in IT"
Politics:
Why Iran should worry
Book review:
Kurzweil's "The Singularity"
Presentation:
Machine Intelligence and Human Stupidity
Event:
An Evening on BioArt
Politics:
Do not get over it
Literature:
Updated the ancient and Asian timelines
Poetry/Meditation:
Half Moon Epigrams
Politics:
Democracy vs Confucius
Event:
Cataloged videos & slides of LASERs
Video:
Mark Jacobson on Alternative Energy
Video:
Christina Smolke on Synthetic Biology
Music:
Solstice concert 2012
Politics:
A new kind of smearing campaign
History:
Silicon Valley at a glance
Book review:
Peter Norvig
Event:
Leonardo Art Science Evening
Politics:
No winners in Afghanistan
Event:
SMMMASH on "Mind"
Politics:
Many winners and one loser in Iraq
History:
A timeline of Latin America
Interview:
About Cognitive Science
Politics:
How not to solve a problem
Presentation:
A Brief History of God
Book review:
Deacon's "Incomplete Nature"
Event:
C.Smolke on Synthetic Biology, M.Jacobson on Alternative Energies, etc
Interview:
About Silicon Valley
Travel:
Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, Solomon
Politics:
The logic of Russia's isolation
Essay:
The Origin of Empathy
Book review:
Wilson's "The Social Conquest of Earth"
Videos:
Several new videos (amateurish)
Essay:
The Nonlinear Origins of Free Will
Travel:
Bangladesh, Maldives, Brunei
Politics:
Wikipedia as a force for evil
History:
A timeline of the Arabs
Politics:
If Turkey falls...
Travel:
Argentina, Brazil and Peru
Essay:
Art in the Age of Irregularity
History:
A timeline of the Turks
Politics:
India: another great illusion?
Hiking:
Best hiking of 2011
Book review:
"Inside the Neolithic Mind"
Essay:
Digital Interactive Art
Event:
Creators Project 2012
Politics:
Why a US soldier killed 16 Afghan civilians
Video:
Kurt Schwitter's "Ursonate"
Travel:
Papua
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