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“Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with the gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim.” Aldo Leopold The reading was about our perceptions on nature and how they differ form others perceptions. There are 9 views on which ‘landscape’ is explained, understood and described through unique...

Solar System Scope is a interactive 3D model of planets and constellations moving over the night...

A Gemini in the Future (This post takes for granted that astrological signs have some relevance in reality [which is not my belief] but eventually strays into solid scientific theory.) I've been forced to consider lately the reasons I'm so apt to announce that I am a gemini (and proud of it) in light of the fact that this weekend was the...

Question number one. what Is reality ? what is it made of. how do we switch to a difrent one . why do we believe it`s so hard and so real? ... when it`s not. Or maybe it is.. it`s all about the way we wire our brain. But even this as simple as it seams follows a specific pattern which is dictated by the society we live in. And the society we...

In case you missed the Intensive Fields Conference @ USC last Saturday (12.12.09) the discussions...

By Clara Moskowitz When physicist Vitaly Efimov heard his theory had finally been proven, he ran...

Spaceship Earth is a world view term usually expressing concern over the use of limited resources...

Punchcard Phone by Marek Bereza Steampunk Tendencies aka Ways in Which the 21st Century May...

We've entered into a new year, the channels have been flooded with list upon list of 2010 predictions and trends, and now we're laying the foundations for how we'd like to characterize the times - David Houle is calling it the Transformation Decade, a tweet from @RitaJKing mentioned The Imagination Age, and Seth Godin rang in the new year with a...

According to Wikipedia, Crank is a pejorative term used for a person who unshakably holds a belief...

We are never as free as we once were at the moment of our birth. We enter this world with no...

◊● inside out Robert Sapolsky - The Uniqueness of Humans / Stress Response: Savior to Killer // Avian Einsteins // Imagining The 10th Dimension // Horizon: Psychedelic Science / How Does Your Memory Work? // Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind (+) / Secrets of the Mind // Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about...

This is Nebula NGC 6543 in its last dance before it becomes a star no more. As humans seeing...

Book Autopsies by Brian Dettmer His flickr account contains more recent work to...

The Holy Evolution Image: The Tree of Intoxication "Gonds make liquor from the...

I've stumbled upon something revolutionary recently. An internet genius (or possibly a group of...

ORNG, A farmer of sorts left his yield unattended. The patrons gathered there goods with...

Possible New Careers Emerging from Advances in Science and Technology (2010 – 2030) Final...

Socrates said, "The misuse of language induces evil in the soul." He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in...

Did you see Her on her back last night, like a smile. I tried to snap a few flicks but...

Here you can find information about new sci-art publication of the National Centre for Contemporary...

NotMarie: “3V, I am still frustrated and quite unclear about the manner you implicate your...

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I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school: They don't teach you...

in the future, engineering will abandon workshops, screws and nuts, no clean room facilities,...

Architecture; The Art of Experience A review in the relationship between the individual and their...

I asked some questions a while back, in the entry No Secret. Namely, I wanted to...

And yet, and yet . . . Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the...

Global cultural fusion seems to be the by-product tomorrow, of our global communication networks...

I make art on plexiglas, acryilc plastics. I love the act of painting backwards. The first...

The world as we know it is in disruption. Maybe it's always been in disruption, pushing us through cycles of apparent chaos so that evolution can continue and new paradigms emerge. Thanks to social technologies, we're growing into a globally connected communication system, and seem to be heading towards a tipping point. But what is it that we're...

Avvy has the NAX API running on the chinese chip from before the corporate war. It is spitting...

I guess I have found the only possible 3D deformation of the Euclidean plane which - regarding of...

You and I are not curators. We ”just sort through rubbish“. We are ”just a makeshift step before a more advanced algorithm is invented.“ If the term ”curator is devalued cheapened“ ... ”then museums could lose all respect as cultural bastions.“ “When an old culture is dying, the new culture is created by those people who...

NotMarie:” 3V, what on earth are ambiguous virtualities? 3V:” how do you know about ambiguous virtualities? NotMarie:” it was on my holoscreen this morning when I logged in, just the words, no link, and no reference.. I am sure it came from you.. so what is it? 3V:” well, it was supposed to be a surprise, a linguistic concoction I...

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth — beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals — would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals? — George Bernard Shaw Imagine a being so vast and powerful that its theory of mind of other...

Roles are immersive, dear diary app persona interface. Pause predicting bestsellers,measuring...

Part 5 in the series : The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization If it works its already...

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