The Rosetta Disk Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of...

Optimism is a political act. Entrenched interests use despair, confusion and apathy to prevent change. They encourage modes of thinking which lead us to believe that problems are insolvable, that nothing we do can matter, that the issue is too complex to present even the opportunity for change. It is a long-standing political art to sow the...

A short part of a larger talk, what is interesting however is the distinct difference...

Today: People are shifting their focus to the energy in their work and its impact rather than...

This is a comment that grew too long - a continuation of the polylogue following Xárene's post, Social Networking Tools and Our Future Society It got me thinking about two experiences I've had recently. Love The first one involved someone that I met who had just moved to Europe 20 days before from New York. He moved here to be with his...

Although it focuses on individual action (so it kinda opposes to my structuralist views of the social world), I find Goffman's interpretation of the human action quite interesting. Those of you who have read Erving Goffman know exactly how "catchy" his sociology is, and those of you who haven't...well I can tell you this: you don't...

What? Yesterday I met a Polytopian A what? A Polytopian! And what on earth is a...

How do you disempower a corrupt system? By empowering yourself. How do you awaken a sleeping...

Generative art made by Leonel Cunha with Context Free : www.contextfreeart.org Context Free...

I realize that this is a fantastical idea, but I would love to hear other peoples thoughts and knowledge in pursuit of expanding this idea. Don't be afraid to throw out wild ideas. Shooting for the stars will allow you to hit the moon. In order for one object to pass through another, all the negative space between the particles of each solid...

Based on Hyperdimensional Physics, Hoagland successfully predicted the historic...

"Everyone experiences the Link differently. We will try to get the patch into a primary or secondary sensory cortex, but it's never perfect. It will take some months getting used to. Once you become familiar with your own personal cognitive manifestation of the Link, I'm told the boys have a sort of language worked out for communication....

"Forget Jurassic Park, forget digging through fossilized and shredded remnants of DNA. With modern informatics algorithms and the vast database of genomes gathered by robotic sequencers, we are able to travel back in genetic time. We can statistically infer the genome of any common ancestor of any surviving group of organisms. We can even...

The following is a scenario on how I think that a MetaTopos could manifest. AMOEB(OS)...

I am glad to find this community of forward thinkers, please say hi if you come by my neck of the woods. -Steven

Hello all, So, I haven't been around here as much as I would have liked, not because I've been...

http://www.home-2009.com/us/index.html IN A FEW SHORT DECADES, HUMANITY HAS UPSET THE BALANCE...

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An intimate moment with the one i love.

All the ways about here belong to me! The Red Queen in ‘Through the Looking Glass’ by Lewis...

Now summer has passed, As if it had never been. It is warm in the sun. But this isn't...

September 1, 2009 6:20 PM Bye bye to the 100W bulb Shanta Barley, reporter Europeans bid farewell to the 100 watt bulbs today. From now on, Edison's brainchild can no longer be legally made in or imported into the European Union, thanks to a Union-wide ban which kicks off today. Shed a tear, but don't let your sentimentality tempt you into...

"This week, we look at some radical ideas for transforming society and changing the way...

Within our mythological sphere an epic-edge is unfolding, disclosing the current narration: we as...

Drop City is a legendary microcommunity, it is a model, and, ultimately, an abandoned project....

It is an open and never ending question, the yeast that animates the brush into a stroke and...

My grandmother is writing a novella about a young woman who begins a journey through time to discover her family secrets. Because this woman is a geneticist, grandma must explore this field to get familiar with the basics. This is how she found this site... I could never grasp the size until I actually travelled from a coffee bean to a...

Utopia has taken up residence in my frame of reference again, possessing me with glee, anguish, and...

A year has passed since I passed my own test for being a knowmad. Like many, I have acquired a...

With the release of the movie "2012" a curiosity of the date has humans across the globe. What does it mean? When will it happen and Why?. First we look at the date December 21st 2012. The date in which a major astronomical event occurs. This is when our little piece of space dust aligns with the center of the Universe. This is a...

Contemporary human being exists inherently in several environments simultaneously; one’s...

The skinny: To determine whether physiologic responses to a drug could be changed by...

This post was first published as part one of a series of three posts on on Augmentology...

How many cells are there in the average human body? There are an estimated 75-100 trillion cells...

there's a trend today of searching for hidden messages in ancient texts and works of art, and there...

Recently during #journchat, I saw a reference to a post titled Does Your Twitter Handle Belong on Your Resume? The author is a PR college student, and the conversation around the post is mainly tactical, but the bigger picture surrounding our online identities is one I've been wanting to address for some time, so this gives me the opportunity....

i am desperate to find participants from the arts, design, architecture etc. communities....

Did you know that in one day a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its...

People are fascinated by language. An enormous amount has been discovered about language in...

The important thing to remember about the likes of Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler, and Jesus Christ,...

The material and the spiritual are so closely entwined in the human mind that making meaning for...

If only one language was spoken on earth, there would still be miscommunication and dogma, the nature of words is to name everything nameable. Recall the language that has no words, the one you were born speaking. written by: Alex Bodnar

The Impact Bias "Here's two different futures that I invite you to contemplate, and you can...

Many of us have been inspired by the cooperation meme lately, and it appears that our collective...

I came here because of Venessa, basically. And a few more people and things that happened, among...

silverpower: Is humanity even worth saving? starglider: As opposed to what? silverpower: ...hmm. -- #sl4 If you ever asked yourself if you are just a waste of space the simple truth is NO. First of all, there is enough space for everyone. Furthermore, there isn’t always a third option, sometimes not even a second one....

If M. Rule were commercial, he would have taken that clothes himself!

cloudhead by headmine.net truth “I swear to tell the truth, the whole...