Nerds, Nine Inch Nails, and numbskulls. It's also an ARG.
posted to MetaFilter by Mr. Gunn at 4:49 PM on April 22, 2007 (14 comments)

Now this is what you call an alpha nerd. I remember this guy from his inspiringly, excruciatingly detailed analysis of various routes he took into work, collecting data over a year.
posted to MetaFilter by Mr. Gunn at 4:47 PM on September 21, 2006 (36 comments)

EMBO's report on Time and Aging (free access) contains an essay wherein the author, Karin Knorr Cetina, from the University of Konstanz, Germany, argues that death and aging used to be major issues that defined what it means to be human and helped us find our place in society by showing us the limits of what is possible to achieve as a human. With the advances in science, particularly biological advances in slowing aging and technological advances in extending human function, we no longer accept our fate. Instead of accepting that we all grow old and die so we should take our place in society, with the expectation that if we contribute, society will take care of us, too, we now have promises being made by science that death and aging are no longer inevitable. Where are we headed, then? If we can no longer find our place by finding the limits of achievement and accepting our place within them, how do we work as a collective?
posted to MetaFilter by Mr. Gunn at 10:42 AM on July 25, 2005 (15 comments)