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Cultural Computing Different cultures have special rules and common elements that humans...

"What if?" An Alice in Wonderland command. But what if size didn't matter to, say,...

I first really discovered the concept of a technological singularity when I read The Spike:...

Adolf Loos' Ornament and Crime holds a favourite ammunition of mine in defense of immateriality: I have therefore evolved the following maxim, and pronounce it to the world: the evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects. How would I define what ornament is today? Ornament, a constant in decoration culture,...

I found these strange images I made a while ago. Simple fractals were generated then taken and...

To imagine: in a few years we'll have people regularly living and working on the moon. And, someday, hopefully not too far off, the possibility of humans living on more than one planet for the first time in this history... how far we've come for monkeys with hats.

Zero Emissions No Noise...and you can fit 12 cases of beer in the back. I'm proud to be a...

Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin writes: "Within each of us — our skeletons, our behavior, and deep within our DNA — lurks our distant past. Make the relevant comparisons and we find that our hands resemble fossil fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function...

I really don't understand why we don't heard much complains about this new way of voting. In a...

Manned Cloud by Jean-Marie Massaud

We call wildflowers weeds, and we pull them out of our tame tidy gardens. The butterflies go away...

+ Arnaud Loumeau +

I am a self confessed generalist, generally interested in everything. As such, the UFO phenomenon...

One of the most fascinating aspects of the growing compilation at VisualComplexity.com is the...

The Ultimate Necessity of Space Travel (1959) Philip N. Shockey wrote a piece for the March-May,...

I keep driving around and looking at all the advertisements everywhere. And they are everywhere. Billboards, signs, bumper stickers, benches, bus shelters, buildings, cars, trucks, people. Driving through any neighborhood I'm instantly immersed in whatever is popular or should be popular there--maybe twenty years ago. That's perhaps the most...

This all is out of something I wrote to myself and forgot about. I've had sitting around for ages in some file called notes.txt that I just rediscovered recently. I added a bit just now for clarity, and a couple more quotes, but other than that here it is: ---------------------------------------------------------- Chance gave us humans the...

There is something about the pixel. It's like it keeps going. Into everyday life, into the world....

It is hard to understand how being life such a wonderful thing we humans insist on harming...

This is a work by Gordon Terry called "Superconsciousness". The noteworthy quality of...

As reported in a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, scientists discovered the...

Yes, I do believe that true democracy is possible, but only now: trough internet, it's finally possible to include all opinions in a ruling process, and to gather all the votes from general public almost instantly. Today's democracy is a mockery: U vote for people based on their's election video and some rumors you hear (probably created by...

Here are some experiments that I did yesterday (marbling paper). Hooray. I feel like shit. But you...

Nary a post goes by when I don't feel compelled to share a relevant book. I'd like to propose a collective recommended reading list, and in beginning this list I'll paraphrase the first page of my first recommendation. It's from a book called "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Many people, when they see an immense...

What Hope for real Change in America? "With slogans promising Hope, Belief and Change, there is a surge of excitement around the US presidential primaries. But can anybody tell us what the Obama-Clinton contest is about?" "Search high and low for the candidates’ clear political positions and principles, and if you find any do...

A couple of days ago I laid out a handful of perspectives in Part I of a Manifesto for the...

An excerpt from an older, but still intriguing, article about what may happen to the human race in...

Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn...

Steve Fossett successfully circumnavigated the globe in the Bud Light Spirit of Freedom, a Rozière...

Brian Jones (UK) and Bertrand Piccard (SUI) successfully circumnavigated the globe in the Breitling...

This program is still full of bugs. Though it is written in Java it appears to work only on certain windows machines. The major improvement of this release is that it opens with a list of commands printed on the screen ( which can be turned on and off by pressing '/' or '?' ). Audio, Video, modes have been disabled in this version because they...

Cause, Principle, and Unity - Gordon Terry This acrylic piece has an organic feel to it,...

"The big demonstrations in London and Washington against the US attack on Iraq a few years ago offer an exemplary case of this strange symbiotic relationship between power and resistance. Their paradoxical outcome was that both sides were satisfied. The protesters saved their beautiful souls: they made it clear that they don’t agree with...

Asch conformity experiments

originally posted by thelogos as discussed in class emergence seems to happen from a set of...

The games become tools. Tools become games

There is truth to the saying: "you are what you eat." If one is vegan, living a...

1. I found this picture interesting because it's a fractal, but it was still able to achieve a...

Mars sux cuz its sun is way tinier than ours.