By joneilortiz on February 18, 2009
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 [...]
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By joneilortiz on December 20, 2008
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 [...]
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By joneilortiz on December 6, 2008
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 [...]
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By joneilortiz on November 27, 2008
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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