New finds at Egypt's city of dead

Seeded on Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:42 PM EST (BBC News)

Archaeologists have been unveiling the latest discoveries from the Saqqara necropolis, or city of the dead, south of Egypt's capital, Cairo.

history

Recipies: What do Hannibal Rising, a Canadian Canibal and Jonathan Swift have in common?

Seeded on Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:00 AM EST (A Hunk of Junk)

I got interested in a tragic event I read during the last months in the news (Robert Pickton's trial), the release of a new movie (Hannibal Rising) and one of my favourite writer, Jonathan Swift (A Modest Proposal); and a question emerged: is there a link between tragic actuali …

education, cannibalism

How Do We See Red? Count the Ways

Seeded on Wed Feb 7, 2007 3:37 PM EST (The New York Times)

How do we see colours? Red serves as an example for Natalie Angier to offer some insight on the latest ideas on how we process colour sensations.

science, colour, neuroscience

Hacking Skype: 25 Tips to Improve Your Skype Experience

Seeded on Wed Feb 7, 2007 2:13 AM EST (-)

Skype is such a rapidly emerging technology that a lot of brand new users aren't even aware of all the built-in features that Skype offers standard, not to mention the add-ons and hacks that you can improve it with.

technology, skype, hacks, voip

Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Nietzsche and Phenomenology

Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:39 AM EST

New number of the The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Volume 38 - No 1 - January 2007: Nietzsche and Phenomenology Edited by Keith Crome Including the following articles: GEORG PICHT: Nietzsche: Thought and the Truth of History

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education, nietzsche, phenomenology, philosophy

God and gorillas

Seeded on Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:43 AM EST (Salon.com)

The Anthropologist Barbara J. King from the University of Oklahoma - concerned with the study of social communication of the great apes - makes an interesting stand against militant scientific atheism and explains what our distant cousins can tell us about religion.

science, anthopology, god, sceptisism, atheism, apes, gorillas, faith, religion

New MA Programm in Philosophy at Laurier, Ontario Canada

Seeded on Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:19 AM EST (wlu.ca)

The Department of Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University is now accepting applications to its new one-year MA Program in Philosophy. Pending approval by the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies, we expect to begin admitting students (for September 2007/08) in March.

education, master-of-arts, philosophy, canada

Holocaust memorials defiled by neo-Nazis

Seeded on Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:07 AM EST (The Times)

The German authorities were preparing for criticism from the Jewish community after it was revealed that a Holocaust memorial in Berlin was being used as a public lavatory by tourists and by neo-Nazi sympathisers.

world-news, germany, holocaust, memorial, neo-nazis

PDF to become an open, ISO standard

Seeded on Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:04 PM EST (-)

Adobe Systems Inc. on Jan. 29 announced that it has released the full PDF (Portable Document Format) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management. AIIM, in turn, will start working on making PDF an ISO standard.

technology, adobe, pdf, iso-standard

Apple iTunes Store Environmental Impact

Seeded on Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:02 PM EST (torants.blogspot.com)

When people debate the pros and cons of the Apple iTunes Store (or any online music store for that matter,) they usually focus their conversation on the quality of the music (bit rate) or the digital rights management (DRM) associated with the music.

itunes-ipod-music-drm-jewel-cases, music-cds

Latinist laments 'dying language'

Seeded on Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:26 PM EST (BBC News)

One of the world's foremost scholars in Latin has said he believes the language is dying out. Father Reginald Foster, who was appointed the papal Latinist 38 years ago, says Latin is almost extinct.

education, latin

French honour for Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan

Seeded on Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:43 PM EST (BBC News)

Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan has been awarded France's highest civilian honour, the Legion d'Honneur. "It fills me with great pride," Bachchan said accepting the award. "It's not just an award for me, it's the recognition of the achievement of the Indian cinema.

entertainment, amitabh-bachchan, legion-dhonneur, france, india

Re-Writing Hitler: Norman Mailer's Devil Has His Day

Seeded on Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:56 AM EST (SPIEGEL ONLINE)

Age apparently hasn't mellowed Norman Mailer at all. The US author, who is about to turn 84, has written a strident and controversial novel about Adolf Hitler's childhood and family life.

entertainment, norman-mailer, hitler, books

Competition films announced for Berlin International Film Festival

Seeded on Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:53 AM EST (movies.monstersandcritics.com)

For people interested in independent (mostly non US films), here is the complete list of the festival.

entertainment, movies, festival, berlinale

Gore Film Sparks Parents' Anger - Moratory banned the film from being shown in Wash.DC school

Seeded on Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:49 AM EST (The Washington Post)

Frosty E. Hardison is neither impressed nor surprised that "An Inconvenient Truth," the global-warming movie narrated by former vice president Al Gore, received an Oscar nomination this week for best documentary.

us-news, al-gore, inconvenient-truth, free-speech, global-warming, education

The Mystery of Consciousness

Seeded on Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:54 AM EST (TIME)

It shouldn't be surprising that research on consciousness is alternately exhilarating and disturbing. No other topic is like it. As René Descartes noted, our own consciousness is the most indubitable thing there is.

science, consciousness, steven-pinker, philosophy-of-mind

A Crisis of Consciousness, Part One

Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:19 AM EST

This is my answer to Steven Pinker's latest article in Time Magazine and it attempts to show what is so wrong with this highly acclaimed article. -------

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science, consciousness, philosophy, steven-pinker, philosophy-of-mind, john-searle, philovine

France pays homage to Abbe Pierre

Seeded on Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:39 AM EST (BBC News)

French leaders have paid their respects to priest Abbe Pierre, who championed the homeless, at his funeral ceremony at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

world-news, abbe-pierre, roman-catholic, france

Stalk Your Contact List with UpScoop

Seeded on Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:20 AM EST (TechCrunch)

Upscoop is designed to help you figure out which networks your friends belong to, based on their email address. You give Upscoop your email credentials (including the password) for your AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo email account.

technology, social-bookmarking, profilelinker, upscoop, web2-0

A look ahead at Google Video and YouTube

Seeded on Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:22 AM EST (Assodigitale)

Google search results already include links to content that's hosted on YouTube. Starting today, YouTube video results will appear in the Google Video search index: when users click on YouTube thumbnails, they will be taken to YouTube.com to experience the videos.

odd-news, google, video-search, youtube