In June 2009 I mapped the protests in Iran with fervor and anxiety. It is possibly the largest collection of public video and images tracking the protests almost minute-by-minute. They are all on Hypercities, a mapping platform developed by Dr. Todd Presner and his research group at UCLA Digital Humanities. The Arab Spring prompted me to...

Come visit us- We Give Style to Character (A Crystomeme Advert ) The song reached us before Someeven approached, by now we knew how to recognize his immense tetrahedral shape basking in its flamboyant colors. We still did not appreciate, however, that the changes to his melody were more than just fine-tuning his attentive-empathic cingulate...

"Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be." Walt Whitman And what marvels we have in front of our very own eyes! Marvels of technology and science we could not have foreseen but always desired, marvels of understanding and...

What makes us who we are, as individuals? Our perceptions of the world, caused by our surrounding...

Figure IT out! PART III...This is an introduction page for my new project. by...

There's not much info yet, just this article from MSNBC, but it's a good time to get feedback...

An excerpt from George Carlin's stand up talk Saving the Planet : We’re so...

It's time to accelerate to process of moving away from everything that does nothing optimal for the freedom to understand this world. The institutions of supposed education which teach most children to be aversive to learning, that which creates an environment of suffocation of knowledge all for the gains of people who did NOTHING to come up with...

Here's an artist I came across a few years back while surfing the internet, I found his work to be...

Mycologist Paul Stamets studies mycelium and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help...

fyi ---- Unlike Us: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives Invitation to join the network (a series of events, reader, workshops, online debates, campaigns etc.) Concept: Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures/HvA, Amsterdam) and Korinna Patelis (Cyprus University of Technology, Lemasol) Thanks to Marc...

The sad, sad demise of Greenpeace by Wilson da Silva GREENPEACE WAS ONCE a friend of science, helping bring attention to important but ignored environmental research. These days, it’s a ratbag rabble of intellectual cowards intent on peddling an agenda, whatever the scientific evidence.

i have a book, and you can make a differents combinations with real animals and create new species....

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These are some beautiful images made from bacterial growth and patterns....found at this website:...

"There is a revolution just beginning in astronomy/cosmology that will rival the one set off...

Compare where you live with others countries

I've been meaning to write this for awhile, a few months late but better later than never I...

By ten they were spread out all over the course. It was no longer a “race”; now it was an...

This is my grandparents' house. Since I was a kid, there are spots and things very memorial for me,...

i enjoy reading your posts, the vocabulary is very new to me, i am doing my best to start contributing to this wonderful community would love some feedback and guidance on where to start here

Let's start this introduction of this exploration of how randomly-selected independent...

The term metahuman is used in previous scifi for people that had mutations due to an external factor such as radiation or chemicals. A mutant was born that way. The latter could also be converted into cyborgs. A mutagen cal also be a virus. Genetic engineering can create a mutation almost immediately. Humans also use tools to survive longer which...

We will see a paradigm shift, possibly a world wide revolutionary change this year. Hand me pepper and salt to eat my shoe if it'll be 2012. It will be a very painful collapse, and we'll see the dollar and the euro become a wholly new currency. I am afraid, because I am vulnerable, but at the end of the day we all are. And while it will be...

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...

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...