IV. Ideological Similarities "People who wear Halloween costumes are sometimes...

via things: By committing our memory to Google or the 'cloud' we have inadvertently created a great hunger for the intangible and ephemeral, the scraps and minutae of everyday life that get sucked into the circuitry and instantly forgotten. Already we are lamenting the loss of the unknown landscape as a result of global satellite imagery, gps...

Within our mythological sphere an epic-edge is unfolding, disclosing the current narration: we as...

Recently I had the thought: Perhaps there are just too many people on the planet to sustain a good life for individuals? Now, this was an interesting moment for me. The 'overpopulation' thesis is neither original nor novel, and arriving at this as a personal insight made me question the assumed lack of value in having unoriginal thoughts. I...

Designers are energised and fed by place. Where they choose to work, live and visit feeds the designer's mind, and their creative processes. My advice to designers seeking new places is to forget about the authentic. It's a sideshow, and a diversion. It's important, no doubt - but it is not everything. Consider, instead, what is actually going...

The Mesmerized Mind - Study of Hypnosis “The motor cortex is connected to the idea that it cannot move the left hand, So even if you try to move, it will neglect to send signals to the motor execution areas.”

From Dr. David Deak, formerly of NASA: This is an acoustic levitation chamber I designed and...

by Manuel DeLanda One constant in the history of Western philosophy seems to be a certain conception of matter as an inert receptacle for forms that come from the outside. In other words, the genesis of form and structure seems to always involve resources that go beyond the capabilities of the material substratum of these forms and structures....

Can't stop listening to this. Composed by this guy:

You draw a triangle on a surface of a sheet of circular shaped paper. You swirl and twist it by...

an 11 page wired article of one computer scientist's attempt at coming to terms with the looming dangers of advanced technology The Drives of Artificial Intelligence I am hopeful of the future. It seems to be the sanest way to continue living into the next day. But I still have my worries. Our leaders are pulling us into this insane...

Our physical environments are gaining intelligence as our geography transcends the analog. Before...

What if our current view of human history which Darwin's theory of evolution propagated is...

The Interlace, one of the largest and most ambitious residential developments in Singapore,...

I hope you have heard about the past Esquire E-Ink cover. I hope this because last October, to...

With this almost infinite informational web, regarding human proportions, we are controversially feeling more and more caged in this tiny round world, choked mainly by social rules and all sorts of socially induced wars and prohibitions that stops us from trying to rehearse and live different ways of living with much more wisdom and pleasure....

(from wildcat's blog) Building Brains: The Molecular Logic of Neural Circuits Memories are Made of This

Even though the brain contains about a trillion glia—10 times as many as there are neurons—the assumption was that those cells were nothing more than a passive support system. Glia, in fact, are busy multitaskers, guiding the brain’s development and sustaining it throughout our lives. Glia also listen carefully to their neighbors, and they...

This is a clip from Modern Marvels on the History Channel

As I began this project, so I begin the post - with the Koan, Hoshin's Last Poem: The Zen...

As many have documented, the foundations of our current state of the Internet (namely the TCP/IP protocols) were developed by Leonard Kleinrock at UCLA in late 1969, with the first Internet connection formed between the UCLA and Stanford campuses. It's good to keep in mind this initial connection, as it summarizes the essence of the Internet: a...

Here I sit at 11.31 AEST 27 September 2009, on a cold spring Sunday morning beneath the great dome of the La Trobe Reading Room at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Australia. I am here to soak up the atmosphere. Yes, I know that sounds flippant, but to a large extent it is true. My underlying motivation in being here is to find a...

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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes...

Now, what I want to do in--certainly this first part of the seminar--is to call in question, very fundamentally, all of our basic ideas about what is sickness, what is health, what is sanity, what is insanity. Because I think we have to begin from this position of humility; that we really don't know. It's reported that shortly before he died,...

A short story that beautifuly depicts a possible path in our present to future leap. credit for...

I believe if time travel were possible (I am not making any decision I'm unsure, more to the side...

Hello reader of the future. I was born in 1971 in Cairns, Australia, and somehow over the last 38 years (it's 25 September 2009 right now, just after 21.46pm AEST) I have developed a strong sense of history. For this reason I am aware that the written word can cross the ages, enduring long after the writer has perished and turned to dust. Of...

Since we saw the Microsoft research series, we can feel that the old gigant of software was able to...

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As the world's information sources steadily - if not exponentially - move from physical to digital media, what will become of libraries as we know them today? Will they disappear altogether? I would like to think that they will not. But what role can they fulfill? I believe that they may become simply centers for public internet access, or -...

Shutting down the internet because it is uncontrollable - is like shooting a horse because it...

It’s being so long since I was thinking about to show you those 3 guys... Then...

this image from the ingenious cartoonist Angeli says it all... here in Brazil there's a lot of...

10/07/2009 - 08/11/2009 Centre d'Estudis i Documentació, MACBA On the Margins of Art is a new...

On Monday 21 September at 17:00 hrs the linguist and activist Noam Chomsky will give a master class...

Dear friends, and loved ones! Listen to the new geometry based on fluid physics vortex-,...

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

Life is out of balance. There are two worlds competing, demanding our attention: the constructed...

Ever since I can remember I want to be an artist. Well, inventor originally, but ever since I...

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'm curious as to what the Space Collective thinks about this subject; namely, Bohm's thoughts that...

The people behind the "Shift happens" series has revealed a new video about how media is...

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