I've just discovered Twine.com, a socially semantic web organiser of data, in 'twines'. Apparently...

I like it! "The Atomic Age Whether the effect you're after is "Mid-Century...

Nine years ago scientists discovered the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and slowly...

Two realms of self-enhancement In three parts: Introduction The concrete realm The...

The universal power of touch Eva Scherer is frustrated that people in her adoptive country are afraid of touch. She says New Zealand is a "low touch" culture and she believes that many of the health and social problems experienced by children may stem from an aversion to touching. Ms Scherer moved to New Zealand from Poland five...

Here is an excerpt from a cultural athropology book defining high and low touch culture. Read here

Our Parenting Choices by Pam Leo "Everyday, every parent makes major and minor, conscious and unconscious decisions about how to interact with their children. We may be pushed by the traditions of culture, or the approval or disapproval of family members, but in the end, all parents decide for themselves how to treat their...

in this post i'm planning to break the conventional rules of posting in a "professional" environment by presenting my own thoughts and slightly intelligible opinions construced in a intoxicated environment. i find it dif if difficult to find the proper letters on my keyboard. this might take a while. struggling as fuck to find the...

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Yoko Ono THE TOUCH For months my hand was sealed off in a tin box. Nothing was there but the subway railings. Perhaps it is bruised, I thought, and that is why they have locked it up. You could tell time by this, I thought, like a clock, by its five knuckles and the thin underground veins. It lay there like an unconscious...

Here are a few videos that document human touch in its different forms.

What is unique to humans: we can express our feelings (or affect) through our hands. Two or more people voluntarily hold hands for one of the following reasons and purposes: in various rituals: handshake in certain religious services, to pray in various occult rituals to express friendship or love to enjoy physical intimacy (not...

A response to Wildcat's "My cranium, my castle?" Thank you Wildcat for the...

This slice in hyperspace follows on from these past posts: How things 'become': The infinity of...

Readers: Do you think in hypertext? The era of the linear tome is dead, information is a web -...

In interview to We Make Money Not Art, by Regine, Bart Hess talks about this amazing work which...

For this reason string theory is sometimes described as possibly being the "theory of everything" (T.O.E.) or the "ultimate" or "final" theory. These grandiose descriptive terms are meant to signify the deepest possible theory of physics—a theory that underlies all others, one that does not require or even allow for...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being built in a circular tunnel 27 km in circumference....

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-how do we get out of this self-referencial loop? -how do we get beyond the limitations of human...

I got the Guardian today, but my eyes didn't even reach the fold. They didn't even reach the...

See those lovely font robots: "About I'm Jonathon Yule, a freelance designer currently...

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Abandoned haunted UFO houses in Taiwan. Trully amazing. FLICKR GALLERY

Via NewScientist.com 1. Farthest North - Steve Jones, geneticist 2. The Art of the Soluble -...

Is any Brazilian here to share comments with me? The Star Wars exhibition that I am...

I love my smart little baby :-) see also www.bravibimbi.it original image:

Enquanto coisas deveriam ser feitas, eu flutuo aqui, mais uma vez. Algumas séries que convergem ou seqüências que divergem ficam me esperando, me olhando, com raiva, pedindo pra serem analisadas, destituídas, defloradas. Estou no início de uma relação, bem no comecinho. Uma paixão se tornando amizade. Nunca havia cogitado essa...

Hanson Robotics may be on the leading edge of AI programming/synthetic humanoids to...

The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well...

Generally, when Time is discussed in philosophy or in science -- including the works of classical Jewish philosophers -- it is understood as movement, or change. The movement of the planets, the ticking of a clock -- as long as these things occur, there is Time. If they cease, Time also ceases. In other words, Time is no more than the...

In sufficient quantity, H2S is lethal, but at smaller doses may be able to merely suspend life.

My interest about design and science is the reason to post another article about patterns. Please take a peep. Thank you! Cynthia This exhibition rediscovers the intriguing work of the Festival Pattern Group. This creative conglomerate of X-ray crystallographers, designers and manufacturers was inspired by the patterns discovered in...

I've recently come across a rebuttle to the vision of a future Utopia, where humanity coexists...

I havn't been fortunate enough to finish reading this book yet. Regardless, this book has provided...

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As a globalized corporate state Dubai is dependent on a foreign workforce to sustain itself....

An introduction to my art, inspired...