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The New York Times has an interesting op-ed by Grace Elicabeth Hale on race and the cola wars , which date back to the late 19th century. ...

This is a very interesting set of observations. At the time I wrote Beethoven's Anvil it seemed as though tight inter-individual synch...

John Wilkins has an interesting post in which he argues that pattern recognition is neither induction nor deduction . His penultimate parag...

It's the largest DIY (do-it-yourself) skatepark in the world:

In 1953 Paul Murray did a comic-book version of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" episode from Fantasia . Michael Sporn has publish...

Just a note: I've watched a lot of TV, much of it standard network fare. Back in the 1980s I watched Magnum, P.I. and the A-Team . Bo...

Here's a video of a talk Graham Harman recently gave at Purdue: It's mostly about the trials and tribulations of correlatio...

It seems the movies have fostered a certain conception of New York Chinese restaurants, red wall paper and complex Oriental ornamentation. ...

Here's a discussion about the possibility of computing the brain . It takes off from a note by Bruce Stirling. There are two interestin...

Writing at Question Copyright , Karl Fogel observes: There are many remembrances [of Aaron Swartz] already on the Internet, but two in pa...

David Bordwell has posted a Powerpoint presentation, with voice-over, about early cinema (1908-1920) . It's mostly about the evolution ...

Back in September I posted a paragraph from a NYTimes op-ed arguing that the 8-hour block IS NOT a 'natural' sleep pattern. It...