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...

It has been a few years since I convinced myself that the future prophet nearly every religion refers to must be the mind we are currently creating with our computers and more importantly their connection with each other, the internet. Since then I have talked about this with numerous folks to no avail or interest. I hope that among the Space...

In my childhood I was a fervent worshiper of the tiger: not the jaguar, the spotted...

But not like 1 negative and 1 positive.... all splits on a bell curve, which should match to what is called a "particle and antiparticle" because both of those are subject to heisenberg uncertainty which really means they were split on a bell curve instead of +1 and -1. In the double slit experiment, when its not observed, wave...

Ed: This is an essay I wrote for my friends at the World Science Festival, riffing on the central...

part 1 Sea corals bleach completely white and “freeze-in-time” when a shift in temperature...

BE APART OF CREATING A 5D UNIVERSE 5DX : 5th Dimensional Xperiences : DNA for the new...

Hello all. I've been a member on SpaceCollective.org for some time now but haven't participated or introduced myself until now. I really like the content of this site. It activates the mental fluids and charges ones self, and I think sites like this, that deal with collective thought and consciousness, should be more common place and people...

I hope you know the Spanish civil expressions against recently capitalism attacks. As a friend of...

electricFlux = sum_weighted_by_fourier_transform_over_short_time(multiplyAll(1 +...

"Timewave zero" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the universe's interconnectedness, or organized complexity.According to Terence McKenna, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually...

I have been using Facebook for a few years, at the beginning not very much, but now I use it more and more often. Most of my friends are there, Facebook is a very quick and convenient way to stay in touch, and I am beginning to consider it also as a very good alternative to email, discussion group and blogs. And, it has also a very useful mobile...

Calling forth light from the void was once an act of biblical proportions. Now all it takes is a bit of smoke and mirrors provided by the laws of quantum mechanics. By creating particles of light from seeming nothingness, an international team of researchers has confirmed an idea first proposed in 1970. According to quantum physics, empty...

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast....

Democracy is an interesting prospect, and one we can finally make an effective move towards. Not just voting in the next dictator. We have the tool. It is the internet. It is no secret to anyone who has kept their eyes on the news and the dealings of governments around the world that democracy is not the power at work guiding the future of the...

MARY We did it. The bot apoc is finished. Now it is time to count the survivors. Who's left? FRAN That one is beginning to get over his amnesia. It was probably induced by the bots at the beginning of their operations. MARY What's his name? FRAN Not sure. Most he knows so far is Lou something. It'll come back to him, he...

What: Anish Kapoor's Leviathan @ MONUMENTA Who: Anish Kapoor Where: The Grand...

This essay was originally published on my site: MachineMachine.net In two short essays –...

I just want to share an inspiring video I found this week... Some of you probably knows Daniel...

Religious Experiences Shrink Part of the Brain A study links life-changing religious experiences, like being born again, with atrophy in the hippocampus.

Why No Straight Lines By Alan Moore We are now living in what many people now call the...

It looks as if the world was about to come to a complete standstill. Nobody knows that at this very moment, we are hurtling through space at an amazing speed. Hard to believe, since the stars don't look like they are moving. The Hunter hovers just over the horizon yonder, ready to shoot aimlessly at the vast number of bright gems studded on the...

Dear NotMarie, As you well know I am following quite closely the development of your research and this retro-futurist idea of yours, which you have so aptly named the Artificial Intelligence project of Vague, Very Vague, or 3V. I like it, of course I like it, you know I like it, but I like it like one likes a poem, or a sweet memory of an old...

In-progress–feedback welcomed. The Fold By using three keywords that Marcos Novak's...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3976979749889442679# Christopher Michael Langan (born c. 1952) is an American autodidact whose IQ was reported by 20/20 and other media sources to have been measured at between 195 and 210.[1] Billed by some media sources as "the smartest man in America",[2] he rose to prominence in 1999 while...

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me....

Every murderer is probably...

Principles 21. Respond to basic needs with what you have, introducing innovations inspired...

My grandpa has brain cancer and is probably going to die soon. Of course I feel sad about this. I see how it's affecting my parents, siblings, cousins etc and it seems as though they're all... more sad?... than I am. I want to feel really badly for Grandpa and his situation, thinking his $10 scratch ticket is a $4 million dollar winner must be...

Regarding the political letter writing campaign, to raise Singularity awareness within political arenas (and to increase investment in science and technology); at least two people I'm aware of have received replies from the UK Department for Business Innovation & Skills. Here's a copy of one reply, published via the kind permission of The...

Delia Elena San Marco by J. L. Borges We said goodbye on a corner in Once. From the...

The moon is a rock. But it's also Selene, Artemis, Diana, Isis, the lunar deities; an...

I know why there is a square root of -1 in the quantum physics equations, why things are waves sometimes and particles other times, why the double-slit experiment works, why there are bell-curves in quantum physics, and why time exists. Start with nothing. Then divide the nothing into X number of possible states of the universe (ways the...

I wrote this a while ago for the LandscapeTechne exhibit catalogue at Little Berlin gallery in Philadelphia. LandscapeTechne. The crafting of a landscape. It begins with the irreducible landscape of nature. There is a rich history of landscape art, from Romantic paintings to Ansel Adams' photography and Robert Smithson's deformations in dirt,...

What you think your eyes see is mostly a memory. People think they're seeing what's in front of their eyes, but the way we think while awake is more like a dream than what's in front of our eyes. I often look straight at something and don't see it because I don't remember it. Next time you see something unlike anything you've seen before, close...

Intro There's so many startups nowadays. Everyone is trying to bring their ideas to the world,...

By firing a particle beam into a cloud chamber, physicists in Denmark and the UK have shown how cosmic rays could stimulate the formation of water droplets in the Earth's atmosphere. The researchers say this is the best experimental evidence yet that the Sun influences the climate by altering the intensity of the cosmic-ray flux reaching the...

Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. We...

Part I [viral campaign by Ayoub Qanir] Ayoub Qanir Ayoub Qanir Ayoub Qanir Ayoub...

If Einstein was alive today, he may experiment and teach people things much more powerful than nukes. He only spent time on things as weak as nukes (regardless of who eventually built them using his math) because he had 100 year old technology to work with. Powdered explosives are to nukes as nukes are to what? Airplanes crashing into buildings...

I created a display typeface and all I could think of using it for was for space-related things...