[monochrom] All the Dead Are Vampires: A natural-historical look at our love-hate relationship with dead people

The vampire story as we know it was born in the early 19th century, as the wicked love child of rural folklore and urban decadence. But in writing these depraved tales, Byron and Polidori and company were refining the raw ore of peasant superstition. And the peasant brain had simply been do

[monochrom] The Internet As Civil Right?

If you're one of the millions of Americans who use broadband Internet at home, you probably take for granted how deeply it's woven into your life. It has transformed the way we pay our bills, seek romance, procrastinate, and keep abreast of politics and the lives of friends. The pre-Google er

[monochrom] Immaterial Value and Scarcity in Digital Capitalism

Essay by Michael Betancourt. The collapse of the United States' "Housing Bubble" in 2008 is the logical and inevitable result of the illusion of production without consumption; however, in spite of the financial collapse, and the bailouts of insolvent financial institutions and the on-going di

[monochrom] #mRIF: I say we take off and nuke...

http://bit.ly/bpm06Z

[monochrom] Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient

The word processor is a stupid and grossly inefficient tool for preparing text for communication with others. That is the claim I shall defend below. It will probably strike you as bizarre at first sight. If I am against word processors, what do I propose: that we write in longhand, or use a

[monochrom] Di 22.6./depot: Zelimir Zilnik: The Old School of Capitalism

Dienstag, 22. Juni, 20:00 ŽELIMIR ŽILNIK: THE OLD SCOOL OF CAPITALISM Serbien in der Zeit der postkommunistischen Transformation. Der durch die kriminellen Privatisierungen verwüstete Mikrokosmos des globalen Kapitalismus. Die Überreste des zerschlagenen Proletariats versuchen, ihre Rechte z

[monochrom] Workers' Control and the Contradictions of the Bolivarian Process: An Interview with Gustavo Martinez

On June 10, 2010 we caught up with Gustavo Martinez, a union leader in the worker-controlled, nationalized coffee company, Fama de América, in Caracas, Venezuela. The company has 350 workers at the national level, with two separate plants – one in Caracas and one in Valencia. We sat down wi

[monochrom] #mRIF: Communism isn't an...

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[monochrom] #mRIF: Free Willy 2

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[monochrom] #mRIF: Portrait of Guy Debord...

http://bit.ly/cG5N8a

[monochrom] Ask a philosopher: 'Which came first: The chicken or the egg?'

Which came first: The chicken or the egg? This is a factual, rather than a philosophical question. However, it is a legitimate task for philosophy to analyse the conditions under which it would be correct to say that the chicken came first, as well as the conditions under which it would be co

[monochrom] Masterful 70-minute video review on why "Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace" sucks

Hell yeah! Chances are you probably didn't like Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. You might be a Star Wars fan, or at least a fan of the original trilogy. After waiting in line for hours, days, weeks, you may have even written a mini 200-400 word review on an internet message board

[monochrom] Science, Media and Hype: God Particles Breeding Like Bosons

Not Even Wrong reports: Science news in the media today is full of stories about Fermilab finding no less than five Higgs particles: God Particles Breeding Like Bosons,

[monochrom] #mRIF: The plural of Jesus...

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[monochrom] #mRIF: Good afternoon. Are you interested...

http://bit.ly/dapZLm

[monochrom] Bechdel Test for Women in Movies

It's a simple test for the presence of women in movies, and it's really remarkable how many movies fail. Link

[monochrom] Peter Tyack: The intriguing sound of marine mammals

Peter Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea: underwater sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing ways whales use sound and song to communicate across hundreds of miles of ocean. Link

[monochrom] #mRIF: To frame

http://bit.ly/bt1SPX

[monochrom] Little House of Abuse: "Confessions of a Prairie Bitch"

Getting to play one of the nastiest little girls to ever make people want to hurl things at their televisions wasn't just fun, it was therapy for Alison Arngrim, who channeled the anger and hurt she felt at being physically and sexually abused into playing Nellie Oleson, the villainous rival

[monochrom] IBM builds world's most advanced "Jeopardy!" machine

For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world's most advanced "question answering" machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution ­"natural language," as computer scientists call it - and respond with a precise,

[monochrom] #mRIF: Privatize profits...

http://bit.ly/cRZdrI

[monochrom] "My Life As A Quant": Emanuel Derman and the Quantitative Strategies Group at Goldman Sachs

Emanuel Derman, a former managing director and head of the Quantitative Strategies Group at Goldman Sachs & Co, is a professor in Columbia University's Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department, as well as a partner at Prisma Capital Partners. He is the author of My Life As A Qu

[monochrom] Matt Joyce fires the DHS

This is Matt Joyce's notice to the DHS that they are fired. Dear Dept of Homeland Security (and associated agencies), As a citizen of the United States, I am entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And you as a federally funded arm of ... something... you are charged with the

[monochrom] Ein Augenblick Freiheit / DVD Release

Thursday, June 24, 2010 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Thalia Wien Mariahilferstr. 99 In Anwesenheit von Regisseur Arash T. Riahi, Schauspieler Navid Akhavan & Filmmusiker Karuan. Moderation Dominik Kamalzadeh DVD bereits jetzt online bestellbar:

[monochrom] The Latest on the Wikileaks Story and the HOPE Keynote

das wird ein interessanter con im juli... ==cut== You may have already seen mention of this in our various forums. Please forgive any repetition but this is a really important story that needs to be known worldwide. If you have any questions, right now the quickest way to get an answer (publicly)

[monochrom] Bad Economic Policy Still Biggest Threat to Global Economic Recovery

By Mark Weisbrot The U.S. and European Union together make up about half of the global economy, and recovery is quite uncertain in both of these big economies. Contrary to a lot of folk wisdom and political posturing, the problem is not irresponsible government spending in either case, but a l

[monochrom] Babies Grasp Number, Space and Time Concepts

Even before they learn to speak, babies are organizing information about numbers, space and time in more complex ways than previously realized, a study led by Emory University psychologist Stella Lourenco finds. "We've shown that 9-month-olds are sensitive to 'more than' or 'less than' relat

[monochrom] #mRIF: Modernity has...

http://monochrom.at/blog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=118&blogId=1

[monochrom] monochrom's Raw Image Format

Ab sofort gibts eine neue monochrom Online-Rubrik... monochrom's Raw Image Format Hier der Link zur Blog-Kategorie: http://bit.ly/monochromRIF

[monochrom] weil immer wieder leute frage wo das monochrom zu kaufen ist

also a) bei uns im buero und b) natuerlich online. hier sind die links: http://www.monochrom.at/mono/monochrom26-34/ der verkaufsleiter

[monochrom] A blue whales main arteries are big enough for a human to swim through

Blue whales feed mainly on krill but also small fish and squid, that swim inside their enormous mouths. The blue whale has thousands of extremely fine teeth that allow water to filter out of the whales mouth, withou

[monochrom] Folks unite online to prevent a suicide

A postmodern morality play is unfolding online. We are still struggling to figure out what it means to be a human being on the internet. Anonymity makes communication easier, but it also makes it less meaningful. Can 30,000 strangers on the internet convince an anonymous person about which they

[monochrom] BP spills coffee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM

[monochrom] The Goat That Ate Islamic Science: Was Islam too individualistic to support science?

The Ayatollah Khomenei once remarked that there are no jokes in Islam. If that is true, it is not for want of material. My latest favorite, related to me by Ibn Warraq, has to do with the rather unfunny hadith­one of the purported sayings and deeds of the Prophet and his companions­that req

[monochrom] Mark Twain: The time (for his autobiography to be published) has come

The time for his autobiography to be published, that is. Twain left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, and the century is finally up; you can read all about it at Guy Adams's

[monochrom] monochrom release in Graz: pictures!

Some pictures taken at our monochrom release party in Graz at Forum Stadtpark (June 7, 2010). Link

[monochrom] A sudden topicality: Marx, Nietzsche and the politics of crisis

Karl Marx was a thinker of crisis. But in what sense was he a theorist of crisis? In what sense did he propound something that might legitimately be called a 'crisis theory'? The question may seem an odd one. After all, although there is no one text by Marx specifically dedicated to the top

[monochrom] Engineers Develop Revolutionary New Desalination Membrane

Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have unveiled a new class of reverse-osmosis membranes for desalination that resist the clogging which typically occurs when seawater, brackish water and waste water are purified. The highly permeable, surface-

[monochrom] Creationist Financing: Let's do the math!

By Richard B. Hoppe: Todd Wood, a young earth creationist at Bryan College, provides summary data on YEC organizations' finances over the 2003-2008 period. There are several interesting things about those data. First,

[monochrom] NASA History: Detailed Chronology of Wake-Up Calls for Astronauts

Compiled by Colin Fries, NASA History Division. Use of music to awaken astronauts on space missions dates back at least to the Apollo Program, when astronauts returning from the Moon were serenaded by their colleagues in mission control with lyrics from popular songs that seemed appropriate to

Re: [monochrom] fundraising for ideas

da hab ich ja mehr vertrauen (und das unironisch) in james cameron: http://article.wn.com/view/2010/06/02/James_Cameron_brainstorms_ideas_for_Gulf_oil_spill/ At 10:50 06.06.2010, you wrote: Sehe ich recht? "I throw another $100 in the hat to solve the problem". Das könnte sich ganz schön auswa

[monochrom] Dem kann nicht mal Henning Mankell die Existenzberechtigung absprechen: "man spricht antideutsch", das monochrom-Shirt

"man spricht antideutsch" Dem ist nichts mehr hinzuzufügen. Link zur solidarischen Bestellseite

[monochrom] Recommended reading: 'Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History'

By Thomas Barfield; Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces

[monochrom] Human mission to the outer solar system -- for around 4 trillion dollars

Scientists are usually a realistic bunch­our salaries depend on proposing projects that are doable with the tools we have in our hands, and our plans usually involve prudent small steps rather than aiming for risky big leaps. But we sometimes dream too, and when we dream, we dream big, even

[monochrom] Scientists Decipher Structure of Nature's 'Light Switch'

When the first warm rays of springtime sunshine trigger a burst of new plant growth, it's almost as if someone flicked a switch to turn on the greenery and unleash a floral profusion of color. Opening a window into this process, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven N

[monochrom] Capitalism, the Absurd System: A View from the United States

By Robert W. McChesney and John Bellamy Foster. Perhaps nothing points so clearly to the alienated nature of politics in the present day United States as the fact that capitalism, the economic system that drives the society, is effectively off-limits to critical review or discussion. To the e

[monochrom] That's what I call an optical illusion

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[monochrom] "Schutzverletzungen. Legitimation medialer Gewalt": monochrom-Neuerscheinung im Verbrecher-Verlag

Endlich ist das Buch da, basierend auf unserer monochrom-Konferenz "Schutzverletzungen" von 2003. Der Reader ist nun beim Verbrecher-Verlag in Berlin erschienen. Schutzverletzungen. Legitimation medialer Gewalt Von Friesinger / Ballhausen / Grenzfurthner

[monochrom] spanischer wikipedia entry fuer monochrom

wow http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrom

[monochrom] monochrom @ Tactics and Practice: New Media Drivers in Ljubljana

A conversation between monochrom (Austria) and Vuk Cosic (Slovenia). Friday, 4 June, 2010 (7 PM) as part of Tactics and Practice: New Media Drivers - A Pilot Seminar in New Media Arts. At Kino Siska Centre for Urban Culture, Trg Prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljan

[monochrom] monochrom #26-34: Release party in Graz, Austria

== monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality == == Release reading/party at Forum Stadtpark Graz == == June 7, 2010, 8 PM == The phatzine monochrom #26-34 (Goat of 1k Young) is an impossibility in an impossible universe ­ an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude,

[monochrom] monochrom #26-34: Release festivities in Sligo/Ireland

== monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality == == Release reading/party at The Model/Sligo, Ireland == == Featuring Special Guest Seamus Kealy == == May 29, 2010, after 5 PM == The phatzine monochrom #26-34 (Goat of 1k Young) is an impossibility in an impossible universe ­ an unpeculiar mi

[monochrom] Force Sting To Appear For A Bad Cause -- Project Update!

We got 4 more euros. Yes! http://www.monochrom.at/zwingt-sting/english.html

[monochrom] Campaign For The Abolition Of Personal Pronouns

There is an ongoing gender debate in hacker and geek culture (see: SIGINT 2010). One of our suggestions is to hack language itself. ---> monochrom: Campaign For The Abolition Of Personal Pronouns http://www.monochrom.at/pronoun/

[monochrom] monochrom: Hermeneutic Imperative III

http://www.monochrom.at/hermeneutic-imperative-iii/

[monochrom] Reminder: monochrom's Direct Intervention Engine

http://www.monochrom.at/butterfly

[monochrom] The Varieties of Atheist Experience... which God don't they believe in?

Paul Cliteur asks: if an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in God, which God don't they believe in? What is atheism? Although much used in contemporary language, not many people specify what they mean by the word. 'Atheism' has this in common with 'religion', at least. Everyone reading

[monochrom] Freeman Dyson, Kevin Kelly and George Dyson comment on Craig Venter's "Creation of a Cell controlled by a Synthetic Genome"

On May 20th, J. Craig Venter and his team at J.C Venter Institute announced the creation of a cell controlled by a synthetic genome in a paper published in SCIENCE. As science historian George Dyson points out, "from the point of view of technology, a code generated within a digital compute

[monochrom] monochrom: "BP, listen up!"

BP!! Clean up your mess in the Gulf or we will burn The Yes Men (or some comparable media activists)!! monochrom: we mean it. (Disclaimer: Even those who don't believe the hype need media to communicate that they don't believe the hype.) Link

[monochrom] The Yellow Brick Road as the Gold Standard: The Wizard of Oz as Economic Fable

The Wizard of Oz as economic fable? Here is a piece on the economic interpretation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 vision, brought to the masses through the 1939 Judy Garland film, and brought to the world's understanding in 1964 by high school teacher Henry Littlefield: "The Tin Woodman represents

[monochrom] monochrom @ Fest der Manifeste II

Die 60er Jahre. Zeit der Revolten und der Gesellschaftskritik. Junge Wilde, sogar in Österreich: Von der Hundsgruppe zu den Phantastischen Realisten, vom Kreis um Monsignore Otto Mauer bis zu den Wiener Aktionisten. Gemeinsam mit zeitgenössischen Künstlern treten einige der Protagonisten vo

[monochrom] Tissue Engineers Create a New Way to Assemble Artificial Tissues, Using 'Biological Legos'

Tissue engineering has long held promise for building new organs to replace damaged livers, blood vessels and other body parts. However, one major obstacle is getting cells grown in a lab dish to form 3-D shapes instead of flat layers. Researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Scienc

[monochrom] Thatcher could have nuked Cordoba?

Well... yes. 1982. It's known that there were British nuclear weapons in the Falklands conflict zone, according to the Times. And two years after the war, the Labour Party demanded an inquiry into a report that Britain had sent a Polaris submarine to Ascension Island, the staging ground for Br

[monochrom] Saturn Silhouette

A startling silhouette of Saturn is created in this Cassini spacecraft portrait. Although the sun is eclipsed by Saturn in this dramatic image, some sunlight scatters through the uppermost part of the atmosphere to reach Cassini's cameras.

[monochrom] The Politics of Genocide: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Propaganda System

Excerpted from The Politics of Genocide (Monthly Review Press, 2009). Elsewhere we have written that the breakup of Yugoslavia "may have been the most misrepresented series of major events over the past twenty years." But the far bloodier and more destructive invasions, insurgencies, and civil

[monochrom] flickr pool fuer monochrom

es gibt einen neuen flickr pool fuer #monochrom bilder... wenn ihr was habt... stellts das doch bitte dort ein... danke! http://www.flickr.com/groups/monochrom/

[monochrom] The Floppy is Dead

Sony's decision to end 3.5-inch disk production is just another signal that local storage media and platforms cannot be trusted with your precious data. The history of data storage and backup is littered with the corpses of dead formats. Seven years ago I wrote about the beginning of the en

[monochrom] monochrom's "Climate Training Camp" @ DORM / Sligo, Ireland

Gear up for the future: with our DIY climate booths! Climate change tends to be seen as the result of failed politics. But the causes lay deeper: certain subjects of an economy act against each other's interests in international as well as in terms of the nation state. It's always the fault of

[monochrom] monochrom @ ROFLcon II / Schedule

Two monochrom appearances at ROFLcon II! The Good, The Bad, and The Awkward Friday, April 30: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm in Room 26-100 With Mike Bender (Awkward Family Photos), Jonathan Standefer (Lamebook), Helen Killer (Regretsy), Douglas Chernack (Awkward Family Photos), Brad O

[monochrom] Brain-Like Computing on an Organic Molecular Layer

Information processing circuits in digital computers are static. In our brains, information processing circuits -- neurons -- evolve continuously to solve complex problems. Now, an international research team from Japan and Michigan Technological University has created a similar process of ci

[monochrom] Guinea waits for change

Elections are promised in Guinea this June, causing excitement among its people, tired of 
military rule and having to live on less than a dollar a day. But is the country ready for elections, let alone democratic rule? Link -- Posted By johannes to

[monochrom] Update: monochrom #26-34: Release festivities in New York City

== monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality == == Release reading/party at Nuyorican Poets Cafe == == Featuring Special Guest Kio Stark, Heather Kelley, Mae Saslaw, Nick Farr == == April 27, 2010, 9 PM == The phatzine monochrom #26-34 (Goat of 1k Young) is an impo

[monochrom] Brains, Worms and Computer Chips Have Striking Similarities

An international team of scientists has discovered striking similarities between the human brain, the nervous system of a worm, and a computer chip. The finding is reported in the journal PLoS Computational Biology. Link -- Posted

[monochrom] Five species that cheated extinction

If you are the last of your kind like the Galapagos tortoise Lonesome George, then short of a virgin birth or cloning, your species is doomed. But it ain't all doom and gloom. Humans have stepped in to save species on the edge, sometimes dramatically and with some success. Indeed, conservati

[monochrom] Cochabamba, the Water Wars and Climate Change

Bolivia—Here in this small Andean nation of 10 million people, the glaciers are melting, threatening the water supply of the largest urban area in the country, El Alto and La Paz, with 3.5 million people living at altitudes over 10,000 feet. I flew from El Alto International, the world’s

[monochrom] Financial Instability: Where Will It All End?

This collection of essays is in the nature of a running commentary on some of the main aspects of the turbulent course of capitalist development in the last years of the 1970s and the first of the 1980s. The focus is on the United States, still by a wide margin the biggest of the advanced cap

[monochrom] Update: monochrom #26-34: Release festivities in San Francisco

== monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality == == Release reading/party at Noisebridge == == Featuring Special Guest STARPAUSE SOUND SYSTEM and HARBOUR & MUSHEN / V. Vale / SFSlim / David Fine / Jonathan Mann / Aestetix == == April 21, 2010, 8

Re: [monochrom] Heilsbotschaft

schneider liest mit, der hat ihn sicher. oder einfach aus dem suhrkamp buch rauskopieren in dem er erschienen ist... das teil liegt bei mir zu hause im monochrom-regal... und franky hat meinen haustor-schluessel im mono-buero. At 00:27 16.04.2010, Moritz Friedrich Fürst wrote: Hallo, hat j

[monochrom] LA Metblog features monochrom #26-34 release in LA

Our favorite Austrians are back in the USSA to celebrate the release of their newest phonebook sized collection of random text. Johannes is here in LA and along with contributors such as Jason Brown, John Wilcock and me, will be doing readings from the book on Friday night at Machine Project

[monochrom] John Wilcock: Special guest star at monochrom #26-34 release event in LA

Wonderful John Wilcock will be one of the special guest stars at our release event for monochrom #26-34 in Los Angeles... w00t! "A good way to describe John Wilcock is to say that he is a talented

[monochrom] Boing Boing features monochrom #26-34

The phatzine monochrom #26-34 (Goat of 1k Young) is an impossibility in an impossible universe -- an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science and political activism. 500 pages (60 ounces) of outrageous printed bestiality.

[monochrom] Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic

An account of a Russian physician on expedition in 1961. I didn't permit myself to think about anything other than the task at hand. It was necessary to steel myself, steel myself firmly and grit my teeth. In the event that I lost consciousness, I'd given Sasha Artemev a syringe and shown him h

[monochrom] Is that paradise beckoning, or just CO2 in your blood?

Bright lights, tunnels to the unknown and mysterious voices give near-death experiences an mystical air. The explanation may be something rather more mundane: plain old carbon dioxide. People who have near-death experiences during heart attacks tend to have higher levels of the molecule coursin

[monochrom] Argentina Revisits Dictatorship: A Year of Human Rights Trials

Tens of thousands in Argentina recently marked the 34th anniversary of the nation’s bloody military dictatorship, flooding into the historic Plaza de Mayo with cries of nunca más, or never again. On March 24, 1976 the military ceased power and instituted one of Latin America’s darkest chapter

[monochrom] Africa: escaping the slums

Africa, the least urbanised continent, still has the highest urban growth rate, nearly 7% per year; 40% of Africans now live in towns, compared with 3% in 1900. By 2030 there will be 760 million Africans, and if current trends continue, more than 70% will live in slums or shanty housing on th

[monochrom] Pixels – A Short Film by Patrick Jean

Pixels taking over! Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 4/08/2010 12:00:00 PM

[monochrom] arse elektronika hong kong / flickr pool

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monochrom/sets/72157623758129810/

[monochrom] monochrom #26-34: Book release in Hong Kong

monochrom #26-34 Release Party in Hong Kong! April 2, 2010 -- 6 PM at Videotage (Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong)! Link -- Posted By johannes to

[monochrom] Reminder: Techno(sexual) Bodies / Arse Elektronika in Hong Kong

We are setting up Arse Elektronika in Hong Kong! All goes well so far! Techno(sexual) Bodies: Arse Elektronika X Videotage / Artist Talk @ Dorkbot-HK Speakers: Johannes Grenzfurthner (founder of monochrom and Arse Elektronika), Heather Kelley (media ar

[monochrom] Arse Elektronika Hong Kong 2010 / Talk, Exhibition

Arse Elektronika Hong Kong 2010 -- http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/ -- Techno(sexual) Bodies: Arse Elektronika X Videotage / Artist Talk @ Dorkbot-HK Speakers: Johannes Grenzfurthn

[monochrom] "Where Feet, Fist and Faith Collide": The spirit of Fight Club mo...

MEMPHIS — In the back room of a theater on Beale Streett, John Renken, 37, a pastor, recently led a group of young men in prayer. "Father, we thank you for tonight," he said. "We pray that we will be a representation of you." An hour later, a member of his flock who had bowed his head was

[monochrom] Human ancestors walked comfortably upright 3.6 million years ago

A comparison of ancient and contemporary footprints reveals that our ancestors were strolling much like we do some 3.6 million years ago, a time when they were still quite comfortable spending time in trees, according to a study which will be published in the March 22 issue of the journal PL

[monochrom] Todd Alcott Analyses Inglourious Basterds

For a minute or so, it looks like the protagonist of Inglourious Basterds is going to be Perrier LaPadite, a humble French dairy farmer just trying to eke his way through World War II in the French countryside with his daughters. Into LaPadite's island of relative calm comes Col Hans Landa. T

[monochrom] War as peace, peace as pacification

To stress one's own love of peace is always the close concern of those who have instigated war. But he who wants peace should speak of war. He should speak of the past one ... and, above all, he should speak of the coming one. A remarkable consensus appears to have emerged on the Left: tha

[monochrom] Banks for the people: A call to rethink the financial system

A call to rethink the financial system from a socialist perspective could have real popular resonance, argues Costas Lapavitsas. The crisis of 2007-9 was a systemic upheaval rather than just the result of poor regulation, or of speculative excesses of finance. It was a crisis of financialised

[monochrom] Human arm transmits broadband

First we sent data through wires, then the air, now the human body is becoming a communications conduit. Researchers at Korea University in Seoul have transmitted data at a rate of 10 megabits per second through a person's arm, between two electrodes placed on their skin 30 centimetres apart

[monochrom] lord jim lodge auf facebook

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[monochrom] A weapons system that tracks mosquitoes? Huh?

Doesn't Nathan Myhrvold get enough attention? The guy is the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, a multimillionaire, a gourmet chef, a prize-winning photographer and keeper of multiple higher degrees from prestigious institutions. As the CEO and founder of Intellectual Ventures, a

[monochrom] Lehman Brothers Scandal Rocks the Fed

After a year-long investigation, court-appointed bank examiner Anton Valukas has produced a deadly 2,200 page report which details the activities that led to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. The report is a keg of dynamite. The question now is whether anyone in government has the nerve to light

[monochrom] Why Surprises Temporarily Blind Us

Reading this story requires you to willfully pay attention to the sentences and to tune out nearby conversations, the radio and other distractions. But if a fire alarm sounded, your attention would be involuntarily snatched away from the story to the blaring sound. New research from Vanderbil

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