Due 9 January 2008 1. Find an image at the Space Collective that you find fascinating. 2. Search for and find an image within the context of the Space Collective that has not been posted. Research both images and verbally present your findings in class on the 9th. When you get your Space Collective account, make this information your...

A crash in civilization is an instance when people (either individuals under government control or...

Chondrophore or Porpita porpita is a gelatinous Cnidarians superficially resembling...

Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo Using photos of oft-snapped subjects...

Recently a friend brought the following article by Drake Bennett to my attention. It appeared...

A few years ago, I watched a movie called "I Heart Huckabees." I immediately fell in love...

Manned Cloud by Jean-Marie Massaud

I really don't understand why we don't heard much complains about this new way of voting. In a...

Nice place. good to be here! just looking right now...

"Humanity is defined by it's interest in moving beyond itself by creating various extensions...

Note: The following is fiction. Also, I poke fun at various religious views and if that offends you, then you have been duly warned. Edit: I forgot to mention: I will not stand for stupid, baseless and unfounded inflammatory comments. Please, if you're going to criticize my work and/or question my quality as a member, please do so in a formal,...

The way we humans communicate with our very young, and vice versa, is very much like a project...

Over the past few days I've been thinking about religion/spirituality/mysticism and the mediums by which they will be exercised and expressed eventually. It seems like just about any form of entertainment (religion included) has gone through an evolution in media. With music for example the performance was only live, then came sheet music, the...

Our progression in technology and science seems to be moving in a forward trajectory. But often...

// This is general, simple code for each element to be "aware" // of every other element. Specifically, it draws a line from each // node to every other node. Node[] nodes; void setup() { size(600, 600); nodes = new Node[6]; for (int i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) { nodes[i] = new Node(random(width),...

Immortality. Life Extension. The Fountain of Youth. Real science or simply wishful thinking?...

-how do we get out of this self-referencial loop? -how do we get beyond the limitations of human...

About Microbes.

When first confronted with John Horton Conway's wonderful Game of Life, it seems incredibly complex...

WhiteKnightTwo & SpaceShipTwo, by Scaled Composites, was unveiled today, as shown in this...

There are millions spread across the globe. For millions of years they have been transmitting...

I'm currently planning a book. (yes, hello everyone first post) I don't feel like divulging too much, suffice to say it's science fiction set in the not too distant future. However it's my plan to try and hone in on the social aspects of life, while keeping up a pretty twisted world plot. The biggest factor in the development of that side of...

Freedom of Creation is a design + research company based in Amsterdam. Their designers are...

In the Polytopia, everyone can customize their interaction with cyberspace and meatspace. There...

Reality, one thing, many details that serve one another Reality, one thing, many details that...

Having much enjoyed Jared Tarbell's Substrate program...

Based off William Ngan's vehicles...

Galvanic skin response sensors measure levels of emotional arousal through changes in skin...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature "Huge changes will occur in the fossil record. Not just because of the mass extinction we are causing, but because of the huge number of human remains that will become melded into future rock layers."

Like a disputed orphan, the ever-volleying political and legal status of the island of Taiwan is...

Images of a rectangular grid under iterated conformal maps rendered using a (digital) video buffer...

Cosmic Background Radiation is essentially a left over from the cooling of the universe. It...

"The further backward you look, the further forward you can see" -- Winston...

After software refinement and process of frame capturing, here is the final...

hello world, this is the fifteen-billionth (give or take) blog that i've set up in my lifetime, maybe three to four of which i hope to remain active in. here are the reasons why i abandon old blogs and start new ones: – i don't like the way it looks (and usually i will look for a different blog provider) – i want to start in a...

"You have asked us, younger ones, to tell you a story," Great Oak said, "but...

While perusing my favorite Daily Grail articles I came across this well thought out read about...

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