I remember the moment I realized I had the ability to read. A major epiphany. I also remember ...

Academia in the age of the search engine Historically, the world’s universities have been the...

Marshall McLuhan has been mentioned in passing in various comments here on spacecollective,...

The discovery of an organizational hyper-structure whose hierarchical contour defies our normal abstracting ability - (and yet can be detected by a colossal metaabstraction reported by Plato and surnamed by him Noesis) is a matter of unparalleled importance, for this hyper-structure seems able progressively more and more to subsume its...

"Sync" by Steven H. Strogatz Topic: coupled oscillators, applied math Tonight the Beijing Olympic games (um... 2008) have opened with a huge bass of square drums made of bronze and wood that covered the central stadium. Each drum would glow when hit by a dedicated person, a drummer, or artist standing next. The performance was...

Loads of bulletins and robots everywhere... As I read on Robots Rules: "Pleo is the...

Time is an unsettled issue in PHYSICS. Existence of pretty much everything visible in cosmos is far...

Final burn out is finished. I look forward to the quiet calmness of this newly acquiesced...

Earth is the only known planet that offers life: a natural system of energy and matter making...

This video expands upon the model from my previous post. It now incorporates connections...

Spidronized double Triamond Lattice. My friend Walt (Mr. Walt van Ballegooijen) doesn't have a...

Atomium in Brussels is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2008. We decided to make a colorful...

This is the same algorithm as in the last post, but I played around with the color scheme and...

Medium Size PS symbol. The power of positive thinking.... "Hope"...

There is a nice and new space-filler shape we discovered, the so called SpidroTetron. Please check...

Looks like space is going to be more than McDonalds, borscht, and Dim Sum. We may only be a few years away from the first Persian in space: Iranian Space Program

Man is no longer the measure of all things. The dimensions of human endeavor have expanded from...

EB - Tanggu Port (Tianjin) In one scene [of Manufactured Landscapes] we were in the largest coal...

Systems of Stars Sir Patrick Moore for Galaxy Zoo We have found out a...

BACKSTORY: It all started with this film “17 things i made.” At the end of the film,...

Cern or ConCern? People panic. Scientist' are threatened with dead. What will happen. Will there...

Everyone can hear me now, in the forest, in the sand, but no one ever asks me about the...

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Last night I saw this documentary about Fidel Castro. After it, I don't understant how reality was...

Every Tree a brother Every hill a pyramid a holy spot Every valley a poem in...

Dear You! No, not because I like speed, I am slow, because my native language is not the...

Emotions and the feelings are not a luxury; they are a means of communicating our states of mind to...

Professor: "Don't do anything that affects anything. Unless it turns out you were supposed to do it, in which case for the love of God. Don't not do it!" Fry: "Got it." During time travel it is possibly best not to disturb anything. But is the prime directive a great loss to human experience? I couldn't think of...

EB - Dam #6 (Yangtze River) The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest and most powerful...

MW - Architecture of Density: Images #a15 & #a101 Hong Kong is one of the most densely...

CJ - Crushed Cars #3 (Tacoma) & Mixed Recycling (Seattle) Exploring around [the United...

MW - China, Factory For The World: Image #1, EB - Manufacturing #17 (Dehui City, Jilin...

Oil Fields No. 19 (California) & Bao Steel #7 (Shanghai) These images are meant as metaphors...

You Be The Judge: The Critique • In the past three decades, one-third of the planet’s...

and 80 planets similar to Earth well, world question center my original path.. Extraterrestrial Cognitive Science: Is intelligence on other planets intelligence as we know it?

Spidrose It happened last February, in Wijk van Aalburg, The Netherlands In commemoration of...

The Locavores appeared in San Francisco in 2005 and define...

This is a preliminary introduction to the Synesthetic MetaGlyph (SMG) series. SMG-003 is a ...

"Iceberg 2025" is an architectural interactive installation proposed to be installed in...

Soot, patience, and the dim whirling of stars make a destiny for even you, the sole heir to all of histories sunken steam ships, tomorrow’s breaking sunshine, and from darkness, a diamond cut to the inward shape of mystery: so clear, brilliant, rare. Indestructible soul kaleidoscope. Upon the anvil, the hammering hand...