December 2011
6 posts
“Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up (via bookoasis)
“A number of the great works of Western literature address themselves very...”
– The Book of Books - What Literature Owes the Bible (via azspot)
Scholarly conference to deal with the legal status... →
singularitarian:
Lawyers and policy wonks with a futurist bent are advised to take note. The University of Miami School of Law is organizing a conference called “We Robot: Inaugural Conference on Legal and Policy Issues Relating to Robotics.” They’re seeking scholars, lawyers, and roboticists who want to discuss a topic that will probably be making headlines in a decade: How the law will...
50+ authors tell Salon about their favorite books... →
joshsternberg:
Though, a bit disappointed Chad Harbach’s “The Art of Fielding” wasn’t mentioned. And equally disappointed that Jon Ronson, who wrote “The Psychopath Test” - which was one of my favorite books of the year - chose Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize winning book “A Visit From The Goon Squad,” a book that made me question who chooses the Pulitzer. (I didn’t like it.)
Well they...
WatchSynthetic Biology is turning to the living kingdoms for its materials library.
Chilling.
