Soak it up. This ball you sit on, called Earth, is huge. It is monstrous. Truly feel it. Let its enormity run through your veins and smother your brain. Feel it lying beneath you. It is unrelentingly, massively, frighteningly gigantic. It is bigger than any other object you've ever dealt with hand to hand. It shows us no mercy as we are...
Inner speech and conscious experience
by Alain Morin
Some unfortunate people suffer from brain damage that selectively interrupts inner speech. It’s as if they were under the influence of this imaginary drug. Scott Moss, a psychologist who was victim of a stroke, lost the ability to use language.
He was able to recuperate and related...
From Telegraph.co.uk:
Sir Richard Branson unveiled the final design of the spaceship he hopes will take fare-paying passengers into space.
Sir Richard, whose Virgin Galactic is one of several commercial enterprises competing in the nascent space tourism market, said SpaceShipTwo will start test flights later this year.
Speaking at a...
This year, this semester, this quarter, this period, you ought to do something great.
Big bang bass undulates eternal void
And all at once the nothingness destroyed!
Believe as well that there was treble too,
No cosmic notes could miss music's debut.
I consider myself a mediocre poet at best, but nobody gets any better humbling themselves...
This whole post is a response to a fascinating series of articles by space collective member Obvious on a very favorite subject of mine. Intuitive wisdom has been much disabused by the scientific establishment, to the drastic detriment of the species and culminating in our current state of possessing destructive power well beyond the wisdom...
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...
I just finished watching "Life After People", an amazing documentary courtesy of The History Channel. I must say, it certainly opened my eyes a little.
Even if all of the insights and explanations and prophecies are nothing but conjecture and educated guesswork, it is still amazing to think about what there will be left if we were to...