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By Damien Keown.
This article raises concerns about the degree to which potential
donors are aware that their layman's understanding of death may not
be the same as that enshrined in protocols employing the cri-terion
of brain death. There would seem to be a need for greater public
education
How about them political elites, huh? Five million bucks for Chelsea
Clinton's wedding, 15K just to rent the air-conditioned shitters --
huge chrome and glass babies with hot water and everything. No gas
masks and waxy little squares of toilet paper for those guys.
Yes, it looks big time
Arse Elektronika 2010: SPACE RACY
Conference, machines, workshops and performances
http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/
September 30 thru October 3, 2010
San Francisco, USA
Love hotels. Swinger club design. Phallic
architecture. The gentrification of Times Square,
kicking out all the
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Daniel Roth's article on the future of financial-data analysis in the
latest Wired
(http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_reboot?currentPage=allRoad
Map for Financial Recovery: Radical Transparency Now!) is a must-read
if only for the last few paragraphs, in which
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The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or
India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly
unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of
governance on which the future world order will be built. This new
world is not -- and will
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monochrom's
SIX FEET UNDER CLUB
Going Down?
6fuc in San Francisco, USA @ Arse Elektronika 2010
October 2, 2010
In the age of data mining, a person's sex life may contain less
embarrassing details than their web search history. Does it make
sense that the former is a tightly guarded secret
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The field of law, as a consumer of scientific
knowledge, should be of particular interest to
those who study science and argue about the role
of values in scientific work. In agencies and
legislatures (and in administrative and committee
hearings), science is used to produce or support
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Institutions progress but human beings don't, and their capacity for
cruelty and violence is infinite.
A pessimistic thought, to be sure. But British philosopher Roger
Scruton is rather optimistic about pessimism. Indeed, in The Uses of
Pessimism he prescribes a dose of that very tendency
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Nolanoids have been faithfully awaiting a vision,
and in these crystal-clear (fake) annihilation
scenes, Nolan out-Finchers Fincher and seeks
Kubrickian misanthropybut there's a
simple-minded sappiness at the heart of this
cynical vision. If anything, the time and
consciousness tricks
Single neurons in the brain are surprisingly good at distinguishing
different sequences of incoming information according to new research
by UCL neuroscientists.
The study, published August 12 in Science and carried out by
researchers based at the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
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There is a paradox surrounding philosophy that AskPhilosophers seeks
to address. On the one hand, everyone confronts philosophical issues
throughout his or her life. But on the other, very few have the
opportunity to learn about philosophy, a subject that is usually
taught only at the
At Babycastles, near the epicenter of the
Brooklyn indie music scene, game designers find
kindred spirits and eager players.
[...]
Formerly inhibited by the very mechanism that
helped indie games grow and thrive a globally
distributed and diverse Internet community that
rarely
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Das System Haider und der Antisemitismus
Ein Kommentar von Stephan Grigat über Haider, Gaddafi Saddam, der am 10.
August 2010 in der Presse und in modifizierter Fassung am 12. August in der
Jungle World erschienen ist, findet sich hier:
ah, kaeselinkumbruch
http://diepresse.com/home/meinung/gastkommentar/586575/index.do
Sent via Brain-Computer Interface.
On 13.08.2010, at 13:56, das ende der nahrungskette j...@monochrom.at wrote:
Das System Haider und der Antisemitismus
Ein Kommentar von Stephan Grigat über Haider
Like Mount Vesuvius but at briefer intervals,
Prince Charles erupts in high dudgeon over
various and sundry affronts to his very
particular and sometimes very peculiar notions of
how life should be lived. The ghastliness of
modern architecture and the superiority of
homeopathic medicinein
These scribbles in the margins already seem like messages from a
dying age. Will the next generation of writers leave similar guides
to the workings of their minds for the future? Perhaps - but not in a
format we can currently comprehend.
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( Archiv: http://www.monochrom.at/mrif )
I always suspected that Neandertals and anatomically modern humans
interbred, based on a simple observation: humans are the most sexual
of all the primates, willing and able to do it just about anywhere,
anytime, with anyone (and even with other species if the Kinsey
report is to be believed
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The symbiotic connection between government and business is reaching
alarming levels in light of recent evidence, indicating that
government officials and business executives are increasingly one and
the same. Consider the evidence that's recently come to light.
A recent study by the
An urban legend has developed over the years that the colors in
modern astronomical photos are made up in a paint-by-numbers game by
publicity-hungry astronomers.
http://news.discovery.com/space/living-in-a-technicolor-universe.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1Link
Researchers at Ohio State University have demonstrated the first
plastic computer memory device that utilizes the spin of electrons to
read and write data.
An alternative to traditional microelectronics, so-called
spintronics could store more data in less space, process data
faster, and
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Guilt, stirred up by leftist thinkers, is now de
rigueur in the west. But Pascal Bruckner believes
our soul-searching is both hypocritical and injurious.
Beneath Bruckner's eloquence is a serious
message: we remain prisoners of a white guilt
whose victim is its supposed beneficiary. Our
Apparently Facebook isn't just for playing MafiaWars anymore. It's
also for finding living unrelated donors to give you their organs. Seriously.
The six degrees of separation that we all experience via Facebook
makes those who have long been waiting on organ transplant lists feel
as though
The Earth is a recycling scheme that has been
running for a third of the age of the universe.
Microbes and plants endlessly pull carbon,
nitrogen and oxygen from the atmosphere and pump
them back out in different forms. Water
evaporates from the oceans, rains down on the
land, pours back
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See for yourself...
http://www.youtube.com/v/L8mJsgPj1iULink
Melinda http://melinder.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post.htmljust
posted a pretty cool set of images. It's a documentation of the
initial test-inflation of our giant joint Pot Tin God, back in April 2009.
(http://www.monochrom.at/pot-tin-god/Link to Pot Tin God)
Shihui Han of Peking University, China, found activity in brain
regions that normally deal with negative emotions and self-awareness
are dampened when we process ideas about death. Han and colleagues
placed 20 volunteers in functional MRI brain scanners while
death-related words, such as
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It took a gay Republican judge with libertarian leanings to issue
from the bench, in a US District courthouse in San Francisco, one of
the warmest testimonials to the married state since Erasmus. Last
Wednesday Vaughan R. Walker struck down California's ban on gay
marriage, prompting
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Mysterious and possibly nefarious trading algorithms are operating
every minute of every day in American stock exchanges.
The trading bots visualized in the stock charts in this story aren't
doing anything that could be construed to help the market. Unknown
entities for unknown reasons are
It's the mother of all clichés. Almost no one can
resist it. It's wielded by everyone from
thoughtful ex-generals to vitriolic bloggers. It
crops up everywhere from Russia's
English-language TV channel to scruffy Pakistani
newspapers to America's stately National Public
Radio. The
Despite their tiny brains, bees have remarkable navigation
capabilities based on their vision. Now scientists have recreated a
light-weight imaging system mimicking a honeybee's field of view,
which could change the way we build mobile robots and small flying vehicles.
New research
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Ach ja, nur ganz nebenbei... es ist über ein Jahr
her, aber wir habens nicht vergessen. Der
#fullboycott-Modus ist immer noch aktiv.
Reduziert eure Medienausgaben. Auf Null!
http://www.monochrom.at/fullboycott/Link
Helium balloons are known for pulling things up, but they could be a
great way to drag defunct satellites down to Earth, a team of engineers says.
Dead satellites pose a hazard to other orbiting spacecraft. In 2009,
one of them wandered into the path of a still-functioning satellite,
While the Enlightenment, 'one of the most
important shifts in the history of man' as one
recent account put it, has certainly had its
detractors, who blame it for anything from the
Holocaust to soulless consumerism, it now also
has a veritable army of self-styled heirs.
Militant
definitionsnacht bzw. definitionshoheit?
definitionsnacht!
das kommt in die ortos
http://www.monochrom.at/orto
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Ja, der Johannes wird sich der Intoxikation
hingeben! Und vielleicht auch ein paar Ausgaben
von
http://www.monochrom.at/mono/monochrom26-34/monochrom
#26-34 signieren - aber nur wenn er echt zu ist.
Wann, wo?
Am Montag, den 9. August 2010 um 20:30 im
legendären
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Like an ice cube on a warm day, most materials melt -- that is,
change from a solid to a liquid state -- as they get warmer. But a
few oddball materials do the reverse: They melt as they get cooler.
Now a team of researchers at MIT has found that silicon, the most
widely used material for
Anyone remember http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_cyclingColor
cycling from the 90s? This was a technology often used in 8-bit video
games of the era, to achieve interesting visual effects by cycling
(shifting) the color palette. Back then video cards could only render
256 colors at a time,
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The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice
system is that it is a race-based institution
where African-Americans are directly targeted and
punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.
Saying the US criminal system is racist may be
politically controversial in some circles.
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John Holloway, author of Change the World Without Taking Power,
argues that our response to the global economic crisis should be to
create spaces outside of capitalism, not demand that it exploits us better.
We are the crisis of capital and proud of it. Enough of saying that
the capitalists are
http://bit.ly/b8Xj7H
University of Virginia moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt delivered a
talk on new advances in his field last week. The video and a
transcript have been posted by http://www.edge.org/Edge.org. Haidt
whips us through centuries of moral thought, recent evolutionary
psychology, and discloses which
Today we are less likely to feel awe in the presence of our machines
than we are to experience what historian Jacques Barzun called
machine-made helplessness.
Visiting the Paris Exhibition in 1900, the American writer Henry
Adams saw something so remarkable he compared its influence to that
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was für ein ekelpaket!
klarer fall von distinktionsgewinnler, der typ.
kot!
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Endlich online:
Businessmodelle und das klebrige Gezücht der Sterne
-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsb8kWRTg7w
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Antonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world's
greatest cultural critics. Antonio A. Santucci is perhaps the world's
preeminent Gramsci scholar. Monthly Review Press is proud to publish,
for the first time in English, Santucci's masterful intellectual
biography of the
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The UK budget, and the next five years of
government policy, means to persuade, or force,
the workless into work. A new study examines the
value of work, not to a company or organisation, but to society as a whole.
Imagine for a moment we asked a crucial, and
crucially different, economic
On June 4th about ten thousand Haitian peasants
marched to protest U.S.-based Monsanto Company's
'deadly gift' of seed to the government of Haiti.
The seven-kilometer march from Papaye to
Hinchein a rural area on the central plateauwas
organized by several Haitian farmers'
organizations
Apple likes to maintain tight control over what
programs can appear on the iPhone a task that
just became a little bit harder.
The Library of Congress, which has the power to
define exceptions to an important copyright law,
said on Monday that it was legal to bypass a
phones controls
und ich verpasse es. argh.
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Jo, geht mir ähnlich
ist ja eigentlich so das ab dem Zeitpunnkt wo
das monoblog überhand genommen hat die Anzahl der Leute die ihre Links
gepostet haben abgenommen.
#mRIF e-mails von Johannes werden bei mir
automatisch als gelesen markiert und archiviert... Und sonst gibts eh
auch fast nur
liste ...?) beizutragen hatte, so finde ich doch, dass dies hier ein
weiterer ort ist, an dem das internet stirbt ...
das internet stirbt? wirklich? da warte ich seit jahren darauf! na
dann soll es doch bitte moeglichst schnell draufgehen, damit der
verwesungsprozess endlich mal wirklich was
In 1960, she began studying chimpanzees, notebook
in handa long way from today's computers and
satellites. Jane Goodall reflects on 50 years of
primate research, and the cast of characters she grew to love.
I remember them all so, so well. Goliath, who
lost his alpha position when Mike, using
What do these words and phrases have in common? Friend, Google, TiVo,
log in, contact, barbecue, unlike, concept, text, Photoshop,
leverage, party, Xerox, reference, architect, parent, improv,
transition, diligence, host, chair, gift, heart, impact?
They've all been declared--by someone,
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die tante schlaegt zu!
--cut---
Auf der Internetseite ihres Verlags
veröffentlichte Eva Herman einen Artikel, in dem
sie das Unglück als Strafe für ausschweifendes Feiern deutet. VON DANIEL SCHULZ
Verführt? Oder einfach nur Freude am Leben?
Jugendliche vor dem Unglück auf der Loveparade.
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http://bit.ly/akMcZK
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