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“The police use of subject is missing from the OED entry, suggesting that it’s either American or recent or both. Curiously, the use of subject in general reports of human research is also missing, except for this curious residue of late-19th-century cultural preoccupations [...]”
The Splintered Mind: What Is an Illusion, Exactly?
“Due to [...]
Last-Minute Changes - Wall Street Journal
But is the timeline right? Did human evolution really stop? If not, our sense of who we are — and how we got this way — may be radically altered. Messrs. Cochran and Harpending, both scientists themselves, dismiss the standard view. Far from ending, they say, evolution has accelerated since [...]
Nick Montford of Grand Text Auto unveils his students’ beautiful new Web edition of the first anthology of Imagist poetry, edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914. “Des Imagistes was not (as far as I could determine) previously available online, isn’t in print, and is not even very easily found in libraries. We don’t [...]
Triple Canopy takes us on a tour of the new Young Earth museum in Kentucky, which features humans and dinosaurs living comfortably in proximity.
Larval Subjects gives an excellent explanation of the meaning of the borromean knot in Lacan’s work.
In a post on “Lincoln and the Mud-sill”, Greg Afinogenov of Slawkenbergius’s Tales asks a question that [...]
Jon Tan discusses the aesthetics of web typography.
Employment lawyers are busier than ever.
Nick Monfort of Grand Text Auto asks, “Is game development an artistic practice? That is, is the making of a game like the making of an artistic work - visual, plastic, literary, performative, or otherwise? This is a different question. I am not [...]
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