There are a couple of popular beliefs concerning altruism, both with extensive history and cultural bias. Some people think it is a core aspect to a good life, and selfishness is abhorrent, in my opinion this is an incoherent statement, and reflects the point of view of many others, that true altruism does not exist and what many call altruism is...

A response to Jonathan Franzen's "Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts": The re-contextualization of technological devices within the framework of sexual love is an incredibly fruitful pursuit. This consciousness, taken broadly, enables an erotic reintroduction to everyday life that might be previously unbelievable to the...

As I had said, Kinect revolution is evolving really fast. Today, we could scan reality to...

One month after the introduction of Google+, the debate on "real vs fake identities" goes on. I see a lot of that on Google+ and Facebook because I have many Second Life users in my network, and many of them have chosen to be pseudonymous. In particular two of my best friends, Khannea Suntzu and Extropia DaSilva, have made this...

If this doesn't make you celebrate life in it's most stripped down essence, i don't know what...

I am a staunch PS advocate. Post-Scarcity is the only way forward. Recent riots in England UK...

This sentence is false. If its false, then it must be true, and then since its true, it must be...

Exploring the concept of cyber-identities, their application, evolution and necessary reformulation "Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be." Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game) There are many reasons for this essay but the main one is to emphasize why we desire, all of us humans that...

RealiTTY is a series of dense, insightful media meditations on language, information, reality,...

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Closer now to machine integration. Engineers have developed a device platform that...

The Cosmic Perspective here are some good things: Second Hand Camp...

(Now Called Cyborg HelpDesk) Update on this kind of Gratification, Pathos and how it seems...

Something from the Past-Future-Present. "Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with a soft radiance. There are no apertures for ventilation, yet the air is fresh. There are no musical instruments, and yet, at the moment that my...

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work" because I think...

Keep writing. Keep writing, and don't stop. No matter what happens to you, just keep writing. Write on paper, write on wood, write on walls, write on clothes. Write on everything. Continue to write, and don't even think of ceasing. Write until your hand hurts. Write until you don't have any idea what you are even writing about anymore. Write like...

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

This is a very special moment in Mankind's History when access to information means freedom ....

"All living beings are in the open: they manifest themselves and shine in their appearance....

...or that's what they call me. i remember an early example of AUREC - aura recognition...

Something great to think about... "Beauty is an adaptive effect which...

After watching the BBC's Atheism Tapes , one of the topics that grabbed my attention was what...

"After nearly 100 years, Einstein’s theories have not been unified. They are not...

Mushrooms and their mycelium are quiet allies that are essential for our healthy existence....

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...