"Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent." - Pierre Levy + James Surowiecki + Mark Tovey I wrote a post a few days ago, Is Twitter a Complex Adaptive System?, that proposed the idea that Twitter may be evolving into an entity of...

How do we identify who we are as people? Where we come from? What we mean? I've been working, for almost a year now, on how music defines people and the place that they come from. Specifically, I've been working to understand why musicians responded so strongly to Hurricane Katrina. Sooner rather than later, I'll post my findings,...

do you ever find it hard to express your perspective on something because you found a video on the...

The futuristic display uses no back lighting, just environmental light. Yet, it is capable of producing colors by using mechanical pixels and interference. ...Speaking of iridescence, check out some of the bugs that shine based on the same principle of nature: Um, I predict people with iridescent skin going to clubs by 2012.

Misleading Euclidean Geometry can cause total chaos in the future of humanity. It is quite obvious...

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An array of tubes + nature = surrealism

In July we celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the first lunar landings. This historic...

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” Friedrich Nietzsche a bit of mock poetry first: " But since, alas! frail Beauty must decay, Curl'd or uncurl'd, since Locks will turn to grey; Since painted, or not painted, all shall fade, And she who scorns a Man, must...

linkage: Fluorescent Jello

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Utopia has taken up residence in my frame of reference again, possessing me with glee, anguish, and...

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Over 100, actually, if you count that any given subject past the "General" section contains a series. I haven't been able to get through this list yet, but it's a doozy!: 100 Incredible Lectures from the World's Top Scientists

Try an oblique strategy. The Oblique Strategies evolved from me being in a number of...

the world sometimes seems so big, and sometimes so small. how many people do we walk by, ignore, think are judging us, are even thinking about us? i don't think about most people beyond a split second. think about their shoes or their coat or their hair or their glasses. that's probably all anyone thinks about me, right? i haven't...

In order to identify the sameness of all instances of x – to distinguish the common thread that...

The world is a symphony and we are the everything orchestra. Hai I am named Tyler. With every...

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what takes an idea from inception to actualization & execution, the visualization &...

COP15 The United Nations Climate Change Conference To be held in Copenhagen, Denmark (Dec...

The first decade of the 21st century is about to end in just a few weeks. Among many things, I find most impacting the explosion of knowledge in the field of brain sciences and human behavior in this decade. Though the great riddles of consciousness and the emergence of minds from brains are still open and far from any solution, many connections...

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"We are made of Star Stuff." Carl Sagan This is an old exploration. ...how God...

It's easy to consume, not necessarily passively, but extraneously... I notice it most when I visit one of those image blogs with the never-ending scroll bar, or when reading — it's even more difficult to put the thing down when it's actually informative, useful. To gain knowledge is a wonderful thing; to think is even better....

I'm reading a copy of Douglas Rushkoff's 1994 book "Cyberia" on my computer (Click link...

I was browsing the net when I stumbled upon this beautiful poem. Enjoy! Crush test dummy I love the brick wall Went ahead to smash my head To get close to my beloved brick wall Could I be one with the beautiful wall? My silly and blind imagination for the wall Yet it stands still and we are still apart I crush my self with the...

"Progress is the realization of Utopias." -Oscar Wilde I have never ever held any 'pay' memberships other than the gym. Professional memberships that cost $$$ like AIA, IDSA, ASID or AIGA--never thought about it. Super Pro memberships that cost $$$$ like ACM--never ever thought about it. Why? I don't see the point of joining the...

Found clipping about Richard Kearton, wildlife photographer | 1862 - 1928 photo by Cherry...

I began writing this as a comment to Chris Arkenberg's recent post, but felt compelled to expand...

I've seen a bunch of posts bubble up over the past few days that are really sparking my curiousity about what is really going on with Twitter, so I need to do a little brain dump. Bear with me. Insight #1 An article by Rosabeth Moss Kanter was just published today on the Harvard Business Review website, titled On Twitter and in the...

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...

“I hear a very gentle sound… With your ear down to the ground…” Talk of the global mind...

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The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at...

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Here you can see an important slide show of Jamais Cascio presentation at the singularity...

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They sure didn't bomb the moon for nothing! The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, are now being revealed to the delight of scientists and space enthusiasts alike. NASA today opened a new chapter in our understanding of the moon....

So what can we do about the environment, the third world, and the economic crisis? By incorporating 3 attributes to our solutions, we can create powerful, lasting solutions to many of the world’s problems. These attributes are enemies to the money system and will help bring about its demise. Automation Efficiency Generic production...

Solar rework from flight404 on Vimeo. great processing animation made by flight404 - maybe some...

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It is an open and never ending question, the yeast that animates the brush into a stroke and...