"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.

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...

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is somewhat new kind of religion. I...

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...

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...

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

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....

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

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...

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in the name of energy conservation, i would like to propose that all businesses requiring the...

If you believe in God you basically believe all was revealed at Creation, the beginning of history....

"instead of the mind having to conform to what can be known, what can be known must conform to the mind." Immanual Kant

'cinema' is not dead as long as people film things...CHECK everything about this video. i wanna say...

Beyond race, gender, class and nationality one can define a human by personal type. Two tests exist readily available online. At Human Metrics I answered 72 Yes/No questions to find out that among 16 possible types I am an INFP, or a Healer, which apparently only pops up 1 in 100, so if the permanent colony is 100 people divided by world...

Or open source design for independent micronations. The idea is this: The Seasteading...

I picked up an article a couple years ago after hearing about siggraph and an intelligent clothing...

Correcting the implied perpetuality of the traditional recycle symbol: According to the laws...

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at some point in the history of humanity, we forgot where we came from and became obsessed with the...

I get stuck when thinking about my future form and environment, because I am thinking in my current form. My current form has physiological limitations--including my brain's limitations. My limitations make me ask questions, irrelevant ones I think, such as "How/Why/When do I ___?" I say irrelevant, because these questions relate to the...

I recently commented on Xarene's post about how oblivious we are that even while we're just sitting...

That's right! I, Aaron Kinney, atheist and anarchist, have just become an ordained minister at the Universal Life Church. Ordination is free, and getting licensed to conduct weddings is only $5. You can even get a doctorate of divinity for only $29.99! If you are like me, and you don't dig that dogmatic religious stuff, you'll be pleased...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4796674762025998102 this was a pretty accurate prediction

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I have a fixation with Italian cinema. So here you go, because Belucci is better than...

I found a lovely Java applet that simulates galaxy collisions. Enjoy!

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I realized some years ago as I was typing that, much like speaking english, I articulate ideas via...