The data explanation today is mostly graphic. Designers can work with shapes, colours, text, icons...

Last night, I found this smart and interesting project about the next interaction between human and...

"The superbly-designed website SpaceCollective dedicates itself to study of topics such as...

The political system with which we are currently presented is based on antiquated problems. The...

Are you there? Can you help me? I like hearing music from Space Collective, especially whilst...

XYZ axis distribution a core of existence in entanglement ( personas / metaconstructs ) is a...

Panama City, Panama 2010.12.14 part 1 The other day, Ana Perez from the new Manrey Hotel...

Okay, let’s move a little. Let’s make some examples and explanation. I’d like to take you deeper in my thoughts. The framework we live in can be described as a relationship between us and place we occupy. We interact with it and its other elements. It is exactly what we are supposed to do; the only thing to do. We feel its atmosphere,...

"You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence,...

Soon after this article, the humanity will move to the orbit around the Supernova and upload...

Nonstarter For Driscoll, the singularity is where noone can predict what happens after...

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” Henri-Louis Bergson -- -Start biosemiotics simulscript- KsTotar: How do you like my new body? Made just for you.. KsSandar: I don’t like it. KsTotar: why is that? Am I not beautiful enough? KsSandar: it’s not that,...

Do not fear mistakes. There are none. Miles Davis images: Anna...

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a...

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...