Smarter animals recognize themself in a mirror. Others see their reflection and act like its another animal. They hide their food, get ready for a fight, or run away for example. Monkeys are smart enough to act based on where others are looking. They value 1 of 2 boxes higher if a person appears to value it, and more often choose to open that...

On the heels of the last voyage of the Atlantis... (source unknown, would like to verify...

Part personal exploration, part 'Re-envisioning cosmological order through perceptual devices'....

Everyone gets as few or as many votes as they want. Nobody needs to be identified because there is no limit on how many votes each person can create. How could such a system work? Why wouldn't people just vote millions of times? They may, but that won't give them more influence. Its not about the number of votes. Its about the patterns of...

Han Kloosterman lived in Brazil for more than 20 years, has been a diamond seeker in Africa, scout...

I have been one of the lucky few to receive an invitation to Google+ on the first day it went...

All things dissolved into a field of moving lights, energetic and dancing in their constructions, appearing, dissipating, floating, and coming together again, circles of motions. The Great System breathes into eternity; operating, operating. It is a mode of transcendence, a new sublime. Traditional understanding is image-based, but the...

Kingston Drone by AsylumSeaker Threshold experiment by AsylumSeaker ...

UPDATE 7/2011 See the comment below about how I'm going to propose this game to the Zeitgeist...

Do we say the cogs have a conscience because the voice allows them to groan? Prison note: ...

Did you intentionally search for the things that came to be the most significant things in your...

Non-invasive optical BCI is closer now. The more non-invasive it becomes, the more likely the...

"Role of electromagnetic field in cellular organization and interactions" by Michal...

I was watching a bunch of ants working together, collecting food between the cracks of the...

I have seen The sunken mysteries of my own mind spread out before me, enveloping everything, breathing sunlight from their ephemeral dew. I have heard the silent rumblings of a desire yet unborn ...

I am honored of having been included in the 200th episode of The Future And You: "Over a...

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like...

Animals live long and prosper when eating from a menu that puts them just this side of starvation. So far, experiments with yeast, worms, flies, spiders, fish and rodents all have shown the antiaging power of severely restricting calories. And research in rhesus monkeys suggests similar benefits in primates: One study found that monkeys eating 30...

The topic of "life after death" raises disreputable connotations of past-life regression...

"Automated genetic tinkering is just the start – this machine could be used to rewrite the language of life and create new species of humans IT IS a strange combination of clumsiness and beauty. Sitting on a cheap-looking worktop is a motley ensemble of flasks, trays and tubes squeezed onto a home-made frame. Arrays of empty pipette tips...

In the vision, intelligent robots will handle our daily frustrating home routines. But in the...

Hi, I'm Kari A. Hintikka, Finnish foresighter, fact book and *punk writer, concept and...

This I love. Every month this year, I have found something new to restore my faith in...

Editor-in-chief & Creative Director : Kevin Grady Publisher & Creative Director : Colin...

Really interesting article from dailygalaxy.com about research being done to reopen sensory biology...

Two Greek Roma scavenge for metals among the ruins of an Albanian Roma shantytown at the...

Ironotai was the candy, the toffee in the puzzle box of uncertainty. In the rational of exuberance he was the chocolate bonbon, to meet him was like discovering a new planet, to listen to him required of us to accept the elasticity of utopian poetics. His was the sense of quiet passions against the lethargy born of the banal, it followed that...

... think about this one: the Fukushima Daiichi reactors will be a pain for some time from now...

When arguing for the benefits of anarchism, I've often been stumped by the counter argument...

Inspiracją do powstania projektu było graficzne przedstawienie komunikatu z Arecibo. Jest to...

"Modern” management is one of humanity’s most important inventions, Gary Hamel argues....

The Himalayan Mountains are one of the most remote and seldom visited regions of the world. It is...

Hello everyone. I just read the attached article that is a couple of years old. A good friend emailed me the article. We talked at lengths about the idea of interconnectedness, and although we as individuals feel like separate elements we are actually connected to the universe in some kind of cosmic hologram, a projection we "see"...

Scientists have developed the first biological laser, made from a single living cell. This...

Some thoughts about miniatyrization and the Internet of Things (IoT) inspired by U.S. Internet suitcase survival kit. As The New York Times told, U.S. is developing Internet in a suitcase. The idea is to create instant stealth wireless networks that would enable activists to communicate outside the reach of governments in countries like Iran,...

Not yet, but USA's government just made a severe mistake of strategy in extending their "spy...

"All things move and nothing remains still" -- Heraclitus The history of astronomy...

Manhattanism — delerious urgency of isolation and automonument; enabled by and support by the...

I've attached an article from Physorg.com that talks about the fire ants as a super organism. I hope I embedded the video correctly, but I added the youtube vid below again. It's an amazing video on how ants work together and mimic the movement of fluids. Beautiful simply describes it.

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...

Sustainability, thrivability, and transforming capitalism. Let me introduce a passionate speaker,...

Watching this a few times has gotten me thinking... Would we have issues with persecutory...

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me...

Buffers, byte order, streaming... Forget that complication. Here's the general solution for making your speakers and microphones do anything you want. With only basic Java programming skills (a first year college class) you can do what took me years to learn: Define sound as numbers from -1 to 1 at each instant in time. Most people think...

Let's talk about the God Particle. It strikes me that people refer to the Higgs boson as the...