This is probably a question that has been debated on several occasions, but it has hounded me for quite some time now! In your opinion.... What is the definition of love? What is required for love to exist? Personally, I have no short answers for this, and I'm curious to see how other people understand the concept.

i think we need to be really careful when it comes to this whole pursuit of perfection. a lot has been said for the negatives of human nature, we are irrational, often violent and hurtful, and essentially slow paced and fragile creatures. but is this necessarily a bad thing? i am strongly inclined to believe that the positives of human...

Art very seldom follows rules; it is dynamic, rhythmic, substantial, sporadic, expressive. However,...

This so-called curse of knowledge, a phrase used in a 1989 paper in The Journal of Political Economy, means that once you’ve become an expert in a particular subject, it’s hard to imagine not knowing what you do. Your conversations with others in the field are peppered with catch phrases and jargon that are foreign to the uninitiated. When...

Within the past year, I have become aware that my brain has been sabotaging my daily efforts to...

The Standard Model that explains what the world is and what holds it together. It is a simple and...

Nary a post goes by when I don't feel compelled to share a relevant book. I'd like to propose a collective recommended reading list, and in beginning this list I'll paraphrase the first page of my first recommendation. It's from a book called "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Many people, when they see an immense...

I've seen a lot of people all over the internet responding to this article, with the title of...

My father once asked me a question a long while ago. Essentially, we were talking about religion and some of the aspects of it. He's committed to his beliefs but this time, he posed a question that didn't sound like him and one I occasionally ponder. "If God created the world and God is in control of what we consider our immediate...

When particles collides, what do we see? A glimpse of infinity? Jared Tarbell explores simulated...

But i like it.

There is much ahead of us. We don't know what gravity is; neither do we know the nature of heat, light and electricity. We are only animals. We are coming out of the dog stage and getting a glimpse of our environment. We don't know - we just suspect a few things. Our practice of shooting, one another in war is proof that we are animals. The...

I’ve seen more lately. I imagine some K-Mart shopper tossing nonchalantly the plastic wrapper from a pack of menthols into the air while walking away from the automatic doors. Before it reaches the ground some chemical or biblical shift has occurred, creating conglomerates of cells for feathers, knobby legs & feet, beady eyes...

One population becomes destructive & the weight of necessity becomes evident. Bottlenecks bursting at their seams— this our lineage & history. The poplars will bend under their perfect weight— the weight of ten billion eons. They look on with faces bright from attention— resolute & randomly tittering in the blue...

How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to hurt you? Behave like that. How would you react to so-called misfortune if you saw its inability to bother you? React like that. How would you think toward yourself if you knew you were really all right? Think like...

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There is an endless debate raging from just about forever about what constitutes the nature of a human, the following is a short list of features that to my mind belong to the human nature, should belong to the human nature or will belong to the human nature if and when we as a specie will evolve into a creature that is a bit more than a verbose...

"...We are at the beginning of a massive recontexting of our social life. We live in this new...

Where did it all start? Did it all start? Or is starting a purely human concept designed to help...

A work by Franziska Schenk, an artist in residence at the Natural History Museum. She uses newly...

Today especially, for no distinguishable reason, I really do feel that there are things that can be...

… may our humanity beautify and experience ecstasy in knowledge and light in 2008 .. I wish...

Timid thoughts, do not be afraid of me. I am a poet. * Rabindranath Tagore

From the Wikipedia: A given set of tiles, in the Euclidean plane or some other geometric...

I believe I have found the song that was the inspiration for a segment of Bladerunner. There is a...

I, in my stories and novels, often write about counterfeit worlds, semi-real worlds, as well as deranged private worlds inhabited, often, by just one person, while, meantime, the other characters either remain in their own worlds throughout or are somehow drawn onto one of the peculiar ones. This theme occurs in the corpus of my twenty-seven years...

I'm normally a cynical, angry bastard, but in the spirit of new beginnings, I've decided to make a list of five great things about 2007. Top Five things about 2007 5. Music- Despite what you hear on the radio and what you see on MTV, 2007 was a GREAT year for music. There were so many great releases this year, it made me hopeful for the...

By Professor Tom Kibble FRS and Professor George Pickett FRS The meeting aims to bring together...

I woke up sweating. I could see my room but my hearing was gone. Only a high-pitch, buzzing...

"Omron demonstrates facial-recognition technology Okao Vision facial-recognition technology...

It came to him shortly after, packed carefully in a wood crate, wired together and fully insured. He was quite excited as he set to work, taking the slats from it. Many fleeting notions must have coursed through his mind as he adjusted the controls and made ready for the first transformation. He had selected a priceless score to...

Taken as directed,Ubik provides uninterrupted sleep without morning-after grogginess. You awaken fresh, ready to tackle all those little annoying problems facing you. Do not exceed recommended dosage. ( UBIK - PKD )

So much is hidden that is right before our eyes. Isn't it strange that we have to imagine what it is like to be a newborn? Say you just 'arrived' today; you pretty much might accept all that is. You know little or nothing, not unlike the remainder of our lives. So you laugh and cry. You feel true love along with uncommunicable fear. Never is...

Yes, I do believe that true democracy is possible, but only now: trough internet, it's finally possible to include all opinions in a ruling process, and to gather all the votes from general public almost instantly. Today's democracy is a mockery: U vote for people based on their's election video and some rumors you hear (probably created by...

Neighborhood smells different--it smells different. Maybe I'm making a big deal of nothing, maybe it was some fleeting aroma set to rise away--maybe it isn't my neighborhoods new mark. Maybe it is, isn't. It's just alarming, how you walk in on something new without no one even warning you before you walk out your door or open your eyes--just...

This is a post continuing a little exchange between me and megan regarding a relation between...

Do you see human features in these photos? Do you see faces and recognizable shapes...

Hey I made a video to accompany a paper I handed in for a class "Culture and the Self." Please take a look and tell me what you think...... I have included my conclusion and as well the link for the video (its posted on facebook) Looking forward to hearing from you all!. Click Here To View The Video The...

Towards the hope of one day breaking that which binds us.

I don't know what everyone here thinks of facebook, but I created a sort of unofficial facebook group for SpaceCollective. Just something for the fans of SpaceCollective.org! It's here.

The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting...