Wired Article here The research paper can be found at Science Mag and the abstract is at the...

In it he confronts the topic of nihilism, how technological evolution overtakes biological...

Particles rushed into focus, grains of dust veiling the vision of the ocular. Spacesand....

The flat earth and geocentric world are examples of wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods. Can you name your favorite example and for extra credit why it was believed to be true? THALER'S QUESTION [11.23.10] An Edge Special Event! To selected Edge contributors: I am doing research for a new book and would hope to...

I designed a house with three beds in it. There's nothing new here; a home comprising three...

Every thread sings singularity, together they make a melody... Some short reflections and...

Depleting a lert logic my hypnogogic mind chatter Sits flatter than the ancients pondered The worlds shape. I'm really ready To sleepytimeape, &escape into the inconclusive reality, of unmateriality and void of consequence. My brainsquirrel frequents regurgitated Moments juxtaposed intense, in a creative auto-pilot...

A brief overview of three techniques for honing your ability to see beyond the horizon. 1. Trend Analysis In order to develop the capacity for imagining alternative futures and create design solutions accordingly, it is useful to be aware of the current driving forces and megatrends underway. The "STEEP" categories [Social,...

“ The sun swept high in the sky of the metropolis – dreaming, like ‘who on top of...

My good friend has just come back from the "Transforming Humanity: Fantasy? Dream?...

That night they did not go out to work at sea. While the men went to find out if anyone was...

The Diagonally Woven Single Joined Thread Klein Bottle is constructed with a diagonally woven...

* 01 December 2010 by David Shiga ABSOLUTE zero sounds like an unbreachable limit beyond which it is impossible to explore. In fact there is a weird realm of negative temperatures that not only exists in theory, but has also proved accessible in practice. An improved way of getting there, outlined last week, could reveal new states of...

Here are some talented dancers. Please tell me your opinion about the choreography! The...

One of the ideas which sprang from our discussions around the future of waste was that of "System Upcycling". System Upcyclers look at how existing infrastructures and technologies can be put to better use, they look to take the elements of our "legacy systems" which are broken, wasteful or social destructive and buy them up...

This future Architype from the Rubbish = Resource Event at ODC last week really resonates with me. I’m now pondering what the infrastructural needs would be for me to make the leap to a Surplus Sustained existence. The Surplus Sufficient sees waste as just excess resource, something which is Surplus to requirement. They use this waste to...

The leading cause of death is birth, and the leading cause of piracy is copyrights and patents,...

In "As We May Think", published in 1945, V. Bush describes a future world colored by technologies which aid man in compounding and extracting data for the growth of the species as an organism... the article is prolific, but at times laughably simplistic, as if Bush should not have been afraid to take his ideas in a more sci-fi direction...

Designers, [or any creatives] please read this. { Wonders Revealed } ‹— links directly to PDF. by Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel. { AIGA page }. Excerpts: Science is revolutionizing the world. From global warming to genetic cloning to persistent threats of bioterrorism, its impact upon our very sustainability is of...

i am desperate to find participants from the arts, design, architecture etc. communities....

“The Orion Correlation Theory is a hypothesis in pyramidology. Its central claim is that there is...

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to...

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http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2010/M10-110.html MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-110 NASA to Hold News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 11 a.m. PST On Dec. 2 MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. PST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding...

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We say the map is different from the territory. But what is the territory? Operationally,...

These are some experiments with human bodies. The work is based in tridimensional...

A short aesthetic exploration into longevity and its implications on our emotional lives- including...

(Below are some brief thoughts on the effects on creativity in the Information Age, taken from...

Whats really happening overall? Details like disagreements between countries are not important...

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From reddit: Gossip about celebrities exists for the same reason religion exists - because it is a very powerful meme. Humans evolved to fit about 150 people into their sphere-of-people-they-care-about (or monkeysphere if you're familiar with that article), and by gossiping about those people with others the people in a community are able to...

All currently implemented approaches to the stimulation brain circuits suffer from a limitation...

Cosmic rebirth Circular patterns in the universe's pervasive background radiation suggest the Big Bang was only the latest of many By Ron Cowen Web edition : Friday, November 26th, 2010 CIRCULAR REASONING Dark circles indicate regions in space where the cosmic microwave background has temperature variations that are lower than average. The...

A few stray hairs In mice, whisker recoil maps to sensory, not motor, part of brain By Laura Sanders Web edition : Thursday, November 25th, 2010 The part of the mouse brain devoted to sensory input is moonlighting as a whisker-flicker, scientists have found. The result may prompt researchers to rethink strict descriptions of certain brain...

Context: just watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 Words are spells unto the mind (as opposed to the material world); NB and look up “incantation” The mind/intellect grasps/understands reality. Words can be and usually are involved in this process. Convincing a person that p is a unique task... one of the highest order, I...

Kurzweil and his proponents seem to be unshakable in their belief that at some point, Advanced Artificial General Intelligence, Machine Sentience, or Human Built Consciousness, whatever you would like to call it, will happen. Much of this belief comes from the opinion that consciousness is an engineering problem, and that it will, at some point,...

Studies showing that people who talk about their goals tend not to complete them. ...

When the power of tradition is broken, modern reason must create normative out of itself by...

Chaos. Flashing lights. Sweat and fragrance. Anxious to indulge, he steps out onto the floor. He takes things slow at first, moving halfheartedly to the beat of the music. As he finds his comfort zone, he begins his long awaited escape; today's featured band providing him with the perfect medium to do so. A steady, consistent beat, yet loud...

This iteration/generation of the Polytopia Project map (derived from notthisbody's conversation...

They are becoming the same subject through unusual experiments. In recent years, some of the subjective experiences and things that were believed on faith are being scientifically proven. We now know that thinking certain things can directly cause other things to change from thousands of miles away. We're not sure why it happens, but we know it...

Time and Pace Preface A rare astronomical configuration occurred about sixty-five...

On 11-11, 2010, one million people across the globe will mentally project a unified vision of a new paradigm for our species... a new reality. The very real physics that connects human consciousness with molecular structure will be harnessed en-masse during the largest simultaneous manifestation transmission in recorded history.New Reality...

Some friends coded this wicked 3D mandelbox fractal music visualization (& wrote the music!): Anandamide - 7.65 Megaelectronvolts from Anandamide Logistics on Vimeo. The renders are done in realtime within milkdrop, which comes with winamp if you happen to use that to listen to your music. Latest version can be downloaded here if you...

We behold an increase of attention to two very interesting concepts: plasticity and collective....

(this is my final paper for cybernetics class and for graduate school. it is a theoretical metalogue between myself and gregory bateson. many of his phrases and passages are pulled directly from the book Steps To An Ecology of Mind) vm: i want to understand the ecology of mind, how it works. I want to understand how technology is...

Moving a movement: What could replace a system that bankrolls corporatist atrocity? #thrivable...