“In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of...

The power of positive thinking.... "Hope" can make the world a better...

The ultimate Platonist these days is Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of...

Kevin Townley, a long time practitioner and scholar of Alchemy and other esoteric disciplines,...

There is no thing endowed with life - from man, who is enslaving the elements, to the nimblest...

The painter does not paint on a virgin canvas. The writer does not write on a blank page....

I've been exploring the meaning of p2p with @notthisbody, and along the way trying to distill the concept down to a simple definition. The logic of p2p has long transcended file sharing and is beginning to transform everything from politics to our economy. 'peer-to-peer' only scratches the surface of what we mean by p2p. There are lots of...

There's been a lot of talk recently about the changes in Net Neutrality laws, and the possibility that they may change drastically in the coming years, thus disallowing for free communications between peers. It's worrisome that Google, monolithic as it is, keeps popping up in these conversations as being not-quite-for neutrality... In the...

Dear Friends, You may ask about my magic hyperbolic 0 curvature disc. How come? It looks really...

The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements When researchers found an unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner life of radioactive elements on Earth, it touched off a scientific detective investigation that could end up protecting the lives of space-walking astronauts and maybe rewriting some of the assumptions of...

I turned Wikipedia into a brain. Wikipedia pages appear and disappear on the screen and...

Models vs. Patterns by Monica Anderson Grasping how things are. Why understanding comes first,...

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. — Arthur Schopenhauer Free will does not and cannot imply without cause, randomness or unpredictability. All those qualities, although present in complex systems, would contradict the notion of willful intent. What we want, and therefore do, must be based on reasonable ground....

Hans Rosling, genius of data visualization at Gapminder leads us to grasp surprising big data and...

"If anybody wants to access your time or knowledge or influence, they would have to pay for it...

Suzanne was telling me the history of Argentine tango, a dance that “grew up” in the narrow...

My ability to make statements in this world is complicated by the fact that most people are, in...

Noho, New York City 2010 space in use... click here for listing link

Illustration by Charles Glaubitz The object as product. The time of the product as merely the...

Is quantum theory weird enough for the real world? Our most successful theory of nature is bewilderingly remote from reality. But fixing that may require a weirder theory still PHYSICS, its practitioners will proudly tell you, is the most fundamental of sciences. Its theories and laws distil the workings of the real world - of particles...

The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting...

Just wondering why the gallery is never updated any more and if it ever will be again? I love the gallery here and often direct people to it, I'd like to see it keep growing.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. If you...

The Arctic Drifter is designed to travel on the prevailing winds above the Arctic Circle,...

"You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence,...

The sticker network is a network made with wirelless stickers. Control over the internet leads to a new form of independent network: the sticker network. This is in fact an open internet wich may interconnect wirelless routers or work as standalone. All you have to do is stick arround. Glue stickers everywhere. Large quantities of stickers are...

One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a...

The latest version of a wonderful recursion. Mandelbox Zoom from hömpörgő on...

The USA government is arrogant and proudly hangs their balls out for all to see, thinking...

DARPA is USA's military's advanced technology department. There's a lot of geniuses working...

Phenomenal short story. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — © 1956 The last question...

NASA policy, responsibility and authority to guard the Earth against any harmful contamination or...

Pulsating heart of a fool Undermining feeling beginning to pray within your walls Long ago...

It was a bright, winter day. The icy, crystal air scraped at my cheeks. With every breath, the frost cut deeper into my throat. Right through the extra thick wool sweater, the cold clawed at my bones. It felt as I was naked past my skin. This time there was no hope of returning unscathed. Somehow the inert brightness and cold amplified my sight;...

Human settlements create lanscapes of energy and add patterns to their existing environments. By...

conditiones sine quibus non identitas indiscernibilium (on the technological...

Alas. My computer is probably killing me. Isn't technology slowly killing us? It makes sense in evolution-that technology would slowly kill us all and not need a user. I sit with my laptop. Its warmth and humming noise sooth me. The warmth is like the warm touch of a humans....

She was walking all alone Down the street in the alley ... She never saw it When she was hit...

Noho, New York City 2010.08.19

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You know that innocence they always talk about that slowly gets sucked out of your soul as you get older and older? Where they judge you if you talk about the magnificent chain of events that just happened in your mind all at once that have nothing to do with the current conversation? Where they shut down your every suggestion because it's not...

Artificial Intelligence learns what music is and creates instruments you play with the mouse. I...