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This year is the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s iconic book "Frankenstein." To celebrate, ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination (CSI) is putting on a series of programs, talks and events, celebrating the book's legacy and considering how it applies to our lives in 2018.
Following Jane from her childhood as an orphan in Northern England through her experience as a governess at Thornfield Hall, Charlotte Br...
Nina recommends the audiobook of Jane Eyre read by Thandie Newton. She remembers loving the book when she read it in high school (and getting AP English credits for essays she wrote about it!), but Newton’s performance makes the experience uniquely exquisite. It’s a long listen, but highly worth it.
As we gird ourselves for the one-two punch of Marvel's latest cinematic offerings, Bob recommends this piece by CSI researcher Andrew Dana Hudson. The essay looks at last year's galactic beat-em-up, Avengers: Infinity War, and provides a set of alternate (and arguably more meaningful) plot machinations, based on Hudson's training as an award-winning speculative fiction writer.
What can Dwayne Johnson’s science thriller teach us about gene editing and unintended consequences?
A modern-day Twilight Zone, Charlie Brooker’s science fiction anthology series Black Mirror takes a dark, cynical look at how current and…
Award-winning sci-fi author Ken Liu’s new short story is a devastating must-read.
A new story from an award-winning South African filmmaker looks at what happens when society’s need for a scientific advancement fades.
Joey recommends Hohokum, a beautiful, serene indie game for Sony’s Playstation consoles. The experience of Hohokum is more like listening to an album or meditating than it is like playing a traditional video game; there are no loss conditions, scores, or time limits. You play as a colorful snake-y creature navigating surreal environments, interacting with delightfully drawn characters and objects: kites, plants, streetlights, abstract shapes. The electronic soundtrack from the record label Ghostly International helps you bliss out, continuously changing and undulating in response to things you do during gameplay. Check out the trailer to see what he’s banging on about.
Nina is still thinking about Into the Spider-Verse, but her recommendation is a song that is missing from the official soundtrack: Want It Here by Xenia Pax. The song, which is Peni Parker’s extended theme, sounds like a factory of code and pixels—essentially, what the inside of Nina’s brain sounds like on her best days of productivity.
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Evokes Passion From Nontraditional Fans
By Steve Goldstein and Bob Beard, KJZZ 91.5 FM
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What Algorithms Want
CSI director Ed Finn on What Algorithms Want
By Ed Finn We spend an awful lot of time now thinking about what algorithms know about us: the ads we see online, the deep archive of our search history, the automated photo-tagging of our families. We don’t spend as much time asking what algorithms want. In some ways, it’s a ridiculous question, at least for now: Humans create computational systems to complete certain tasks or solve particular…
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Short Fiction Contest: Ocean Trash Write-Away
Submissions due September 19, 2015 Presented by Sapiens Plurum, Ocean Conservancy, and the Center for Science and the Imagination **Learn more and submit your story today!** Every sea on Earth is plagued by massive amounts of trash. Refuse in the ocean kills hundreds of thousands of birds and marine mammals per year, and hazardous heavy metals bind to plastic particles and enter our food chain.…
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Poetry by Robots for Robots
A lot of ink and electrons have been spilled on the task of getting our machines to pass the Turing test. It is indeed an accomplishment of some proportion if a computer’s linguistic or artistic output can pass for human-generated. But does a passing grade really mean genuine awareness? Consider the many Turing tests designed to test computational creativity with poetry. For example, there’s…
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Systems and Solutions with @MargaretAtwood In November 2014, award-winning author Margaret Atwood visited Arizona State University as part of the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative…
Most people think of Vin Diesel as a cartoonishly muscle-laden, inarticulate, perhaps even anti-intellectual lunk. It’s all right there on the surface in the Fast and Furious series and the frequently-awful xXx, you might say. But scratch the surface and you’ll find a star who has a complicated relationship with...
Activity stations blend discovery, imagination at Leonardo exhibit
Activity stations blend discovery, imagination at Leonardo exhibit
This story was originally published at ASU News.
Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination has designed a number of activity stations that are integrated into Phoenix Art Museum’s “Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester and the Power of Observation” exhibit.
The stations encourage visitors to engage in critical and creative thinking and making, and the activities are designed…
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Science and Storytelling with @MargaretAtwood In November 2014, award-winning author Margaret Atwood visited Arizona State University as part of the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative…