Ares 1-X, a flight test rocket, is scheduled to launch today from Kennedy Space Center in Florida....

I was reading a post tonight, on one of my favorite forums, about someone who managed to live very cheaply without sacrificing spontaneity, happiness, wholesome meals, or mental health. He seemed to be... Free. I followed the posts to a link to "How to Drop Out" by Ran Prieur, and I found so much of myself in his writing that I wrote...

This past Saturday I worked with Mike Liebhold, Gene Becker, Anselm Hook, and Damon Hernandez to present the West Coast Augmented Reality Development Camp at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, Ca. By all accounts it was a stunning success with a huge turn-out of companies, engineers, designers, makers, artists, geo-hackers, scientists, techies...

“I cannot understand why human beings should be so little individualized. Why they should...

Personally, I love having my stupidity handed to me on a silver platter every now and again. It...

Artwork by Alex Grey I find myself here, situated in front of my computer at 1am (on a school...

I have some thoughts about new community. In Russia we have very corrupted police, law courts and...

If you have ever heard of Eric Van Danaken and the book Chariots Of The Gods? if you haven't search this in google and see for yourself if we were influenced by E.T.'s. Leave a comment of what you think Also just as a quick follow up. IF we were part of a big experiment to see if a civilization could exist on earth do you think they would...

This weekend I experienced a snowcrash; a moment where the seemingly disparate pieces of information floating in my head came together. A synapse fired, a new connection was made, and I was brought to a new level of consciousness, a new way of seeing the world. In reading this over, it almost sounds obvious, but it took me a while to get here. I...

Our ability to think has long been considered central to what makes us human. Now research suggests that our bodies and their relationship with the environment govern even our most abstract thoughts. This includes thinking up random numbers or deciding whether to recount positive or negative experiences. Do you agree with the conclusion...

There was some interesting discussion today about the presentation of the self, to the self — the...

Follow-up to: Knowing beyond science and mathematics? I think I have to clarify why I mentioned mathematics in my recent post -- Knowing beyond science and mathematics? -- as a way of knowing in addition to science and separated from other logical systems. First of all, I'm only at the beginning of my long journey towards a decent...

In response to schmuck's post about the openness of SC, I thought I'd bring up another issue the...

I've finally figured out how to use public source hosting, and I have set up a visualizer program I...

It is incredible how something like this exists. you know-we are a bright generation. trying to make use of and hold onto technology and the internet. Sometimes i ask myself why, is this good? (whats good and bad..etc) we all want to change the world. be better. be remembered. but how do we create REAL conscious and social change??? this...

Cancer is a modern, man-made disease caused by environmental factors such as pollution and...

All currently implemented approaches to the stimulation brain circuits suffer from a limitation...

Whats really happening overall? Details like disagreements between countries are not important...

I very much appreciated the recent discussion Should SpaceCollective be open?, which is a...

What is the universe? Why is it here? How can we use it? Those questions have been debated for...

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In Buddhist philosophy, desire and mental attachment are what keeps you stuck here on Earth, but I have a much easier way to explain it. There are many philosophies I think are mostly true. Anyone can do this. In 2002 for a few months, I had it a small amount, compared to most people who rarely have it enough to notice it exists. Then because...

"Role of electromagnetic field in cellular organization and interactions" by Michal...

Meet Gliese 581 C, an exoplanet 20.5 light-years away with certain signatures (like liquid...

this is much better than just torturing ants with a magnifying glass and the hot sun. pour...

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth...

I've been studying my dreams for quite a few years now. For me the world of dreams presents...

"Theo Jansen, artist, studied science at the University of Delft Holland. The first seven...

HERES YOUR BIG CHANCE! The European Space Agency is looking for 12 volunteers with planetary...

Are we Cultural Creatives? Not to generalize, but I do get that feeling around here. It's a good feeling. Cultural Creative. I like the sound of it! I first encountered this term when I took one of those online quizzes that my friends were all taking (we are so interested in forming our identities from other people's ideas), What Is Your World...

From The New Yorker: Eric Sanderson is a landscape ecologist who is trying to determine exactly how...

Tired of the transient nature of digital artifacts, I recently decided to create something...

To imagine: in a few years we'll have people regularly living and working on the moon. And, someday, hopefully not too far off, the possibility of humans living on more than one planet for the first time in this history... how far we've come for monkeys with hats.

As the Secretary General of the United Nations, an organization of 147 member states who represent almost all the human inhabitants of the planet earth, I send greetings on behalf of the people of our planet. We step out of our solar system, into the universe, seeking only peace and friendship, to teach if we are called upon, to be taught if...

Turbulence, cont. from flight404 on Vimeo. Audio by Goldfrapp (Deer Stop), as found out by...

The evolutionary prospect of an ethical criterion Evolution is blind. No scientific theory...

I'm normally a cynical, angry bastard, but in the spirit of new beginnings, I've decided to make a list of five great things about 2007. Top Five things about 2007 5. Music- Despite what you hear on the radio and what you see on MTV, 2007 was a GREAT year for music. There were so many great releases this year, it made me hopeful for the...

Did you sleep well? Good! Enjoy your day! And for those of you who didn't - better luck...

“Put simply: cities are like ant colonies are like software is like slime molds are like...

I had a strange feeling today while at my day job. I happen to work alongside a friend of mine whom I was seeing in the past. However, things turned rocky, and we went our separate ways about two months ago. I hadn't been working since around the beginning of December, as I was placed on medical leave. Today was third day back, and the first...

A couple of days ago I laid out a handful of perspectives in Part I of a Manifesto for the...

Bipedalism, loss of body hair, subcutaneous fat, speech. Aquatic ape theory.

First we humans were able to cope with life. Nowadays we are able to alter it. Call it consious or...

The Library of Alexandria was an enormous repository of ancient wisdom situated in Egypt. Due to...

If there was something that you really believed and knew that if acted upon it could save...

Polymath (from Greek polymathēs, πολυμαθής, "having learned much"); a...

Readers: Do you think in hypertext? The era of the linear tome is dead, information is a web -...

I figured this was a good idea. So, does anyone who has seen it actually want to discuss it? Official Website You can also torrent the DVD (legally, as the movie is free for distribution), but I'm not going to provide that link unless you ask. I don't really feel like looking it up right now. You can also buy the DVD from the site above for...