"the future of the study of human evolution is gonna be big team based projects" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upRFk2b2vas
Turtles… dialectics all the way down
"Biology has traditionally defined individuals by the criteria of anatomy (organisms separated from the environment), physiology (organisms whose parts work toward a common end), development (organisms derived from a common precursor cell), genetics (autopoietic organisms whose cells contain the same genome), immunology (organisms that reject non-self), and evolution (that which is selected). Recent studies show … Continue reading Turtles… dialectics all the way down
overcode experience on environment translate the morass of the world manifold ecology roiling substrate realm beyond kin orthogonal frameshift ephemeral assemblage multifaceted ferment shifting circumscription voids – pathological inbetweens – dissipative inertia
Wall text at Gallimaufry, group show at Platform Arts, Belfast. Through obscured presentation and shifting registers this work seeks to undermine meaning and renew potential in a text.
Why do societies collapse? Jared Diamond
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how — if we see it in time — we can prevent it. https://www.ted.com/talks/jared_diamond_on_why_societies_collapse?language=en
Christy Graph
For the animated version see the link below. The animation shows the flaws in a chart frequently presented by John Christy in the media and Congressional testimony. The chart has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal. http://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=243
Reenacting Science: Bruno Latour at SCIENCE GALLERY
A far more digestible insight into Latour's current thinking than his excellent Gifford lectures. Outlines his view of how science and politics may need to merge in view of the threat posed by climate change denial, how he relates to Peter Sloterdijk's thoughts on envelopes etc and how these may relate to 21st century art in … Continue reading Reenacting Science: Bruno Latour at SCIENCE GALLERY
Molten glass sewing machine
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35171408 We present a fully functional material extrusion printer for optically transparent glass. The printer is composed of scalable modular elements able to operate at the high temperatures required to process glass from a molten state to an annealed product. We demonstrate a process enabling the construction of 3D parts as described by computer-aided design … Continue reading Molten glass sewing machine
Donna Haraway: “From Cyborgs to Companion Species”
Donna Haraway presented her lecture as the 2003-2004 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley. Haraway is a prominent theorist of the relationships between people and machines, and her work has incited debate in fields as varied as primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology. Haraway's The Cyborg Manifesto, … Continue reading Donna Haraway: “From Cyborgs to Companion Species”
DCAL: The first 10 years – A Celebration
As part of the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) 10 year celebration there will be a day of talks, interactive activities, an early evening social plus an exhibition in the format of a timeline, highlighting DCAL’s landmark events over the course of its first 10-year period. Events on the timeline will include key … Continue reading DCAL: The first 10 years – A Celebration
Mycogeddon
Paul Stamets' patent could destroy Monsanto's grip on the pesticide industry using mushrooms https://www.minds.com/blog/view/422130907919421440/paul-stamets039-patent-could-destroy-monsanto039s-grip-on-the-pesticide-industry-using-mushrooms Why poison your food if you don't have to? In this post-industrial culture of getting as much as you can out of as little space as possible, increasing profit, regardless of ecological impact; we have birthed a slew of new ideas … Continue reading Mycogeddon
Joey O'Gorman 