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How consciousness works. And why we believe in ghosts
Consciousness is the ‘hard problem’, the mystery that confounds science and philosophy. Has a new theory cracked it?
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Sensation of pleasure is evidence of one’s personal truth.
External Stimuli Uri Shapira (artist).
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The Gaming Industry's Greatest Adversary Is Just Getting Started
How Anita Sarkeesian is trying to change the $25 billion video game industry.
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Remember: Stop Rioting And Watch The Cosby Show
KNBC Interrupts LA Riot Coverage for Cosby Show Finale
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It’s Long Past Time To Update The Thanksgiving Myth
In 1620, searching for a place to practice their dissident religion in peace, a small group of English separatists sailed to the wilderness coast of America. They were helped by local Indians, who shared with them a great feast comprised of native foods: turkey, cornbread, pumpkin, cranberries. The Indians taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn and squash together with a fish placed in the soil to encourage robust growth; the colony survived and prospered. Jump cut to the Boston Tea Party, Concord and Lexington, and the modern world’s first successful experiment in democracy.
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8 things you should never feed to dogs and cats
Veterinarians are finding that many of our most delicious foods, even healthy ones, can be deadly to animals
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Gun Possession among American Youth: A Discovery-Based Approach to Understand Gun Violence
To apply discovery-based computational methods to nationally representative data from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions’ Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System to better understand and visualize the behavioral factors associated with gun possession among adolescent youth.
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Exchanging Mystics for Food
Architect and theorist Philippe Morel on ideology, computation, and architecture.
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“How to Write with Style” — Kurt Vonnegut
International Paper asked Kurt Vonnegut, author of such novels as "Slaughter-house Five," "Jailbird" and "Cat's Cradle," to tell you how to put your style and personality into everything you write.
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Kara Walker’s Thought-Provoking Art
On the heels of her wildly successful installation at the Domino Sugar Factory in New York, the artist Kara Walker prepares for a new exhibition and opens up about what drives her fearless exploration of race and sexuality.
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Action video games bolster sensorimotor skills, study finds
People who play action video games such as Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed seem to learn a new sensorimotor skill more quickly than non-gamers do, psychology researchers have found.
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Rolling Jubilee
A bailout of the people, by the people. We legally buy debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, we abolish it.
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Can Anatomical Brain Images Alone Diagnose Psychiatric Illnesses? The work of Dr. Bradley...
The development of neuroimaging-based biomarkers that enable clinicians to more accurately diagnose psychiatric disorders – and to tailor individual treatment regimens accordingly – is one of the most urgent and elusive goals facing neuroscience researchers today. A recent post on this site discussed the promise and challenges of these efforts.
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Onika – Best Friends
Mix by Onika. Art by Aoto Oouchi.
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DEALER – MUSIC & INSPIRATION: 'RIVAL DEALER' by BURIAL
WRITTEN & DIRECTED: Ben Dawkins MUSIC & INSPIRATION: 'RIVAL DEALER' by BURIAL
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Ten Years of Hyperdub
One of the UK's most influential labels celebrates its birthday
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Evolutionary Tree Of Insects Released
After an exhaustive two-year period of research, a large international team of scientists has finally unveiled its comprehensive evolutionary tree of insects on Earth in the journal Science.
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The never-ending conundrums of classical physics
During its teenage and young adult years—what is now referred to as its “classical” period—physics made a lot of mistakes. In the old physics, mass and energy were separately conserved; particles’ positions and momenta could be arbitrarily specified; gravity acted instantaneously at a distance; the equality of gravitational and inertial mass was just a coincidence; and there was no speed limit. All these ideas and assumptions are now known to be in some way untenable. They're either inaccurate..
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A quantum world arising from many ordinary ones
Radical theory proposes that interactions between classical worlds can explain some quantum phenomena.
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Gender-neutral pronouns: When ‘they’ doesn’t identify as either male or female
When people call themselves “genderqueer,” does identity trump grammar?
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A Band of Her Own
In early March 1966, poet and public-television presidium Richard O. Moore traveled to the buttoned-up Boston suburb of Weston, Massachusetts, to interview the poet Anne Sexton at the home she shared with her husband, Kayo, and young daughters Linda and Joy. The interview was to be a cinéma vérité–type glimpse into the life of the increasingly famous poète maudite, who just a year later would be awarded the Pulitzer for her second collection, Live or Die.
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Sam’ Sinister Rays of Light
I spoke with Connecticut-born artist Sam McKinniss about everything from iPhones in bed, to Sade, to existential rave moments, to dish soap.
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Kevin Van Aelst
Artist Kevin Van Aelst was born in Elmira, New York, raised in central Pennsylvania, and is now based in New Haven, Connecticut. He received a B.A. in psychology from Cornell University in 2002 and an M.F.A. in photography from the Hartford Art School in 2005. Kevin has taught photography courses at the Hartford Art School, Middlesex Community College, Quinnipiac University, and currently at the ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Why broken sleep is a golden time for creativity
People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through?
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earth
A visualization of global weather conditions, forecast by supercomputers and updated every three hours.
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What Pi sounds like.
Musician interprets Pi to 31 decimal places.
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