Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Research
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A year or so ago I blogged about Greenflame: Genetics with some links to a couple of genetics resources I’d found (including a Gattaca study guide). Now it looks like we’re a lot closer to the Gattaca scenario than we were then. Check out Wired News: Quick Read on Your Genetics. Thanks to Andii at…
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PhD supervision meeting today. Time to “vent” about how I’m feeling about my thesis progress to my supervisors. No writing due today just time to talk. They listen, they encourage, they offer wisdom – nice to have that sort of relationship with them. Going to take a few weeks away from the main work and…
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Wired News: Cell Phone Users Are Finding God Once merely a useful tool for keeping in touch on the go, the mobile phone is fast finding a new niche as an instrument of spiritual enlightenment. Link found via: TallSkinnyKiwi: (WIRED) Cell Phone Users Are Finding God
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Updating the previous entry reminded me that the latest issue of Stimulus is out now: August 2004 – IT, culture & the Church. Tim Bulkeley, the coordinator of “Virtual Theology”, edited this issue and it has articles in it by him, Steve Taylor, Tim Bednar and yours truly. Some stuff appears to be online (like…
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There have been various threads of discussion recently in the blogosphere about the depth of blogging and its role as a medium for doing theology. (See Maggi (1) & (2), Steve (1) & (2), Dan and me (1) & (2). (As well as many others out there) For some it represents the cutting edge of…
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My fieldtrips for my research often tend to be to the movies. Movies such as the Matrix trilogy, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Star Trek: Nemesis and today I, Robot serve as a source for thinking about human nature in relation to technology. In her book on technoculture Lelia Green comments on the increasing number of contemporary…
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Funny sort of a day today. Asked to speak at the School of Theology postgrad seminar on my experiences at the ANZATS conference in Melbourne last month and on participating in the uni postgrad poster expo/competion last year. Sort of felt like a “what did you do in the holidays?” school project. This year it…
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Interesting essay by Roz Picard at MIT on Does HAL Cry Digital Tears? Are emotions a desirable property for computers to have? It’s hard to imagine someday walking into a computer store and saying, “Give me the most emotional machine you’ve got.” After all, isn’t possessing the highest form of rationality one of the hallmarks…
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Just writing up some stuff on different approaches to technology. From those who see technology as liberator, to those who see it as oppressor, and those who see it as value-neutral. Then this popped up in the newsreader. Somedays a doctrine of total depravity seems to get it right. Wired News: Pursuing the Libido’s Dark…
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Interesting article by David J.A. Clines on academic publishing – both self-publishing on the web and publishing through journals and like. Publishers: Who Needs Them?