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Re: [mta] NS 2775: Slavoj Zizek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse

c...@youngbloods.org (Carl Youngblood) at groups.google.com — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:21:45 -0700

Some very interesting ideas in there, especially his somewhat novel
take on the concept of simulation. This reality with undetermined
corners sounds a lot like Pierce's pragmatism.

NYT: Scientists Square Off on Evolutionary Value of Helping Relatives

chec...@panix.com (Premise Checker) at groups.google.com — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:49:36 -0700

Scientists Square Off on Evolutionary Value of Helping Relatives
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By CARL ZIMMER
Why are worker ants sterile? Why do birds sometimes help their parents
raise more chicks, instead of having chicks of their own? Why do
bacteria explode with toxins to kill rival colonies? In 1964, the

NYT: Computer Chips Seem Poised to Shrink Again

chec...@panix.com (Premise Checker) at groups.google.com — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:49:04 -0700

Computer Chips Seem Poised to Shrink Again
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[Reader comments added.]
Advances Offer Path to Further Shrink Computer Chips
By JOHN MARKOFF
Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard are reporting this
week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued

NS 2775: Wonder conductors will spin up cooler computers

chec...@panix.com (Premise Checker) at groups.google.com — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:48:45 -0700

NS 2775: Wonder conductors will spin up cooler computers
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* 01 September 2010 by Catherine Zandonella
Newly discovered materials could clear the way for blisteringly fast
laptops and smartphones that don't warm our laps or singe our ears

NS 2775: The mind's eye: How the brain sorts out what you see

chec...@panix.com (Premise Checker) at groups.google.com — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:48:36 -0700

NS 2775: The mind's eye: How the brain sorts out what you see
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* 30 August 2010 by David Robson
AFTER her minor stroke, BP started to feel as if her eyes were playing
tricks on her. TV shows became confusing: in one film, she was

NS 2775: Slavoj Zizek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse

chec...@panix.com (Premise Checker) at groups.google.com — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:48:28 -0700

NS 2775: Slavoj Zizek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse
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* 30 August 2010 by Liz Else
Is touchy-feely environmentalism a new opiate of the people? Why are we
paying rent to Bill Gates? Is reality incomplete? Marxist cultural

Re: [mta] Re: Who cares?

linc...@metacannon.net (Lincoln Cannon) at groups.google.com — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:21:25 -0700

Valeska O'Leary heard of us for the first time . . .
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NYT: Clive Thompson: What Is I.B.M.'s Watson?

chec...@panix.com (Premise Checker) at groups.google.com — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:16:28 -0700

Clive Thompson: What Is I.B.M.'s Watson?
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Smarter Than You Think: I.B.M.'s Supercomputer to Challenge 'Jeopardy!'
Champions
By CLIVE THOMPSON
"Toured the Burj in this U.A.E. city. They say it's the tallest
tower in the world; looked over the ledge and lost my lunch."

Last day for discounted registration to Transhumanism and Spirituality Conference 2010

linc...@metacannon.net (Lincoln Cannon) at groups.google.com — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:45:27 -0700

Guys, today is the last day to get discounted registration to the
Transhumanism and Spirituality conference. Come on out! Here's a link to
register now:
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Re: [mta] Re: Who cares?

linc...@metacannon.net (Lincoln Cannon) at groups.google.com — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:45:51 -0700

We made the Reil blog! About 3/4 way down the page, a picture of some MTA
members that were together at the recent Sunstone conference . . .
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CHE: Jacques Berlinerblau: You're Dead. Now What?

chec...@panix.com (Premise Checker) at groups.google.com — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:47:55 -0700

His _The Secular Bible_, with a subtitle something like "Why Atheists Must
Take Religion Seriously," is much the best book on atheism I have profited
from in many a moon.
Jacques Berlinerblau: You're Dead. Now What?
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August 8, 2010
The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in

CBC: Jennifer Lahl: The Eggsploited: When Two Markets Collide

chec...@panix.com (Premise Checker) at groups.google.com — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:46:28 -0700

Jennifer Lahl: The Eggsploited: When Two Markets Collide
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The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network
July 8th, 2010
By Jennifer Lahl, CBC National Director
Louise Brown was born in the United Kingdom on July 25, 1978, the
world's first test-tube baby, conceived by in vitro fertilization

CBC: Wesley Smith: A Preventative Against Biological Colonialism

chec...@panix.com (Premise Checker) at groups.google.com — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:46:12 -0700

Wesley Smith: A Preventative Against Biological Colonialism
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[Thanks to Sarah for this. This people are opposed to this practice,
irregardless of the supposed exploitation, but really on the grounds that
the Lord is against it (no chapter and verse cited). Yes, people should

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Change Daily Life by 2100, by Michio Kaku

possiblepaths2...@gmail.com (John Grigg) at groups.google.com — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:41:13 -0700

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Change Daily Life by 2100 [Hardcover]
Michio Kaku (Author)
This title will be released on March 22, 2011.
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From the Amazon.com book profile page:

The Week: Building a better human

chec...@panix.com (Premise Checker) at groups.google.com — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:12:46 -0700

And some hope.
Building a better human
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Scientists equipped with the secrets of the human genome are getting
closer to cures for diseases and longer life spans.
posted on August 27, 2010, at 12:50 PM
How has technology affected human biology?

Breakpoint: Colson: Eggsploitation: Women as Commodities

chec...@panix.com (Premise Checker) at groups.google.com — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:52:55 -0700

Colson: Eggsploitation: Women as Commodities
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August 23, 2010 5:00 AM
You've probably seen them--most of us have. Ads soliciting women to
donate their eggs for in vitro fertilization are everywhere: in
newspapers, on the Internet, on college campus bulletin boards.

NYT: NASA's Kepler Telescope Finds What May Be an Earth-Size Planet

chec...@panix.com (Premise Checker) at groups.google.com — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:50:46 -0700

NASA's Kepler Telescope Finds What May Be an Earth-Size Planet
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Telescope Detects Possible Earth-Size Planet
By KENNETH CHANG
Scientists working with NASA's Kepler satellite reported Thursday
that they might have spotted a planet just 1.5 times the diameter of

Re: [mta] Re: Who cares?

linc...@metacannon.net (Lincoln Cannon) at groups.google.com — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:11:35 -0700

More Twitter love for the H+ Magazine interview . . .
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TLS: Alex Burghart: The iPast

chec...@panix.com (Premise Checker) at groups.google.com — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:40:23 -0700

Alex Burghart: The iPast
The Times Literary Supplement
August 6, 2010
Mark Greengrass and Lorna Hughes, editors
THE VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION OF THE PAST
226pp. Ashgate. £60. 978 0 7546 7288 3
The book, as we know and love it, may be about to die. Apple has recently
released its iPad into the wild. How could this topless laptop possibly

Re: [mta] CHE: Michael Ruse: Hauser and Harvard

c...@youngbloods.org (Carl Youngblood) at groups.google.com — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:29:26 -0700

I'm becoming increasingly suspicious of WSJ op-eds. It seems like they
are devoting more and more time to beefing up the opinion side of
their offering instead of the objective journalism they are known for.
Seems like they are becoming another CNN or CNBC.