Generally, when Time is discussed in philosophy or in science -- including the works of classical Jewish philosophers -- it is understood as movement, or change. The movement of the planets, the ticking of a clock -- as long as these things occur, there is Time. If they cease, Time also ceases. In other words, Time is no more than the...
The universal power of touch
Eva Scherer is frustrated that people in her adoptive country are afraid of touch. She says New Zealand is a "low touch" culture and she believes that many of the health and social problems experienced by children may stem from an aversion to touching.
Ms Scherer moved to New Zealand from Poland five...
On Thursday, NASA held a press conference to announce that the recent TEGA experiment on board Phoenix had confirmed the presence of water in the Martian soil. Whist exciting, Phoenix scientists were expecting that result. However, behind the scenes, something else was being discussed and it had little to do with melting water…
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Get between 5 and 50 writers from space collective to each write chapters for a book, to then be collaborated and edited together and plausibly published. Most probably online.
To go with the whole spacecollective thing some kind of science fiction springs to mind, or possibly modern philosophy from the perspectives of so many great young...
Or, The Risk of Extrapolating Linear Trends Against Non-Linear Systems.
A common habit in forecasting, particularly in energy futures & economic growth, is to take roughly linear trends and extend them over the next few decades. The notion is that there is inertia in what has already happened that will make the future look markedly similar,...
"The psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower-order behavior systems to newer, higher-order systems as man's existential problems change. "
Clare W. Graves (the futurist-1974)
Abstract
Quality I shall define here not...
Oamos is a search engine that uses several search terms to generate an endless live streaming content (for registered users) like a tv/radio channel.
"Breaking The News - Be a News-Jockey
Just tell us a headline or your favorite words and we'll create a modifiable streaming news-station for you. «Breaking The News - Be a News-Jockey»...
I wanted to see what Wikipedia had to say about our lovely community and noticed no one has made an article yet, imagine my surprise!
I was gonna just start the entry but I haven't actually edited Wikipedia yet (oops!).
This is a call to all who are able - please floss out the space collective infotites w/ a bangin wiki...
Radical Strategies for a Conected World
The net is our future.
"Of all the endeavors we humans are now engaged in, perhaps the grandest of them all is the steady weaving together of our lives, minds, and artifacts into a global scale network. This great work has been going on for decades, but recently our ability to connect has...