Antony Gromley, English sculptor. Gormley describes his work as "an attempt to materialise...

To aid in the gestation of a new project, I've been watching a whole lot of Carl Sagan...

...rarely drink water. Instead, they have a highly water-efficient metabolism (their kidneys are at least four times more efficient at retaining water and excreting salt than those of humans) and manufacture water through a metabolic process called oxidative phosphorylation. One special feature of the kangaroo rat is the animal's efficient...

Advanced Beauty, sample clip from flight404 on Vimeo.

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

Cultural Computing Different cultures have special rules and common elements that humans...

"What if?" An Alice in Wonderland command. But what if size didn't matter to, say,...

I first really discovered the concept of a technological singularity when I read The Spike:...

I found these strange images I made a while ago. Simple fractals were generated then taken and...

Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin writes: "Within each of us — our skeletons, our behavior, and deep within our DNA — lurks our distant past. Make the relevant comparisons and we find that our hands resemble fossil fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function...

All you have to do to resolve the enhancement debate in your mind is watch these fantastic...

There's this man named Louis Wain, who lived back in a time before computers, before mathematical...

+ Arnaud Loumeau +

I am a self confessed generalist, generally interested in everything. As such, the UFO phenomenon...

One of the most fascinating aspects of the growing compilation at VisualComplexity.com is the...

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

The Ultimate Necessity of Space Travel (1959) Philip N. Shockey wrote a piece for the March-May,...

Manned Cloud by Jean-Marie Massaud

I keep driving around and looking at all the advertisements everywhere. And they are everywhere. Billboards, signs, bumper stickers, benches, bus shelters, buildings, cars, trucks, people. Driving through any neighborhood I'm instantly immersed in whatever is popular or should be popular there--maybe twenty years ago. That's perhaps the most...

This all is out of something I wrote to myself and forgot about. I've had sitting around for ages in some file called notes.txt that I just rediscovered recently. I added a bit just now for clarity, and a couple more quotes, but other than that here it is: ---------------------------------------------------------- Chance gave us humans the...

To initiate the research of the project, we researched what Machinic Phylym essentially "is", and how it pertains to the recreation of the voyager golden disk. The difficulty in this research is that, in itself, Machinic Phylum cannot be defined as clearly as one would hope. Nonetheless, we were able to define, on a somewhat vague and...

There is something about the pixel. It's like it keeps going. Into everyday life, into the world....

It is hard to understand how being life such a wonderful thing we humans insist on harming...

This is a work by Gordon Terry called "Superconsciousness". The noteworthy quality of...

As reported in a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, scientists discovered the...

Here are some experiments that I did yesterday (marbling paper). Hooray. I feel like shit. But you...

This post was originally composed for my blog and published many moons ago. Since its conception my...

What Hope for real Change in America? "With slogans promising Hope, Belief and Change, there is a surge of excitement around the US presidential primaries. But can anybody tell us what the Obama-Clinton contest is about?" "Search high and low for the candidates’ clear political positions and principles, and if you find any do...

ColleX (The, A): {Noun, Plural: ColleXes} A descriptive term constructed of the terms...

The evolutionary prospect of an ethical criterion Evolution is blind. No scientific theory...

Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn...

Steve Fossett successfully circumnavigated the globe in the Bud Light Spirit of Freedom, a Rozière...

Brian Jones (UK) and Bertrand Piccard (SUI) successfully circumnavigated the globe in the Breitling...

This program is still full of bugs. Though it is written in Java it appears to work only on certain windows machines. The major improvement of this release is that it opens with a list of commands printed on the screen ( which can be turned on and off by pressing '/' or '?' ). Audio, Video, modes have been disabled in this version because they...

Cause, Principle, and Unity - Gordon Terry This acrylic piece has an organic feel to it,...

"The big demonstrations in London and Washington against the US attack on Iraq a few years ago offer an exemplary case of this strange symbiotic relationship between power and resistance. Their paradoxical outcome was that both sides were satisfied. The protesters saved their beautiful souls: they made it clear that they don’t agree with...

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

Zero Emissions No Noise...and you can fit 12 cases of beer in the back. I'm proud to be a...