The choice of responsibility “Natural selection won’t matter soon, not anywhere near as much...

Here is an interesting introduction to the history of the concept of accelerating change, found...

The most profound enlightening and positive realization I have ever had concerns the fact that the...

Self-Aware Systems is a think tank working to build wisdom into emerging technologies. We are...

Happy Holidays? I love you? More than ever, I am overwhelmed and confused by the holiday season. First, I am astonished by the gift buying frenzy. Does anyone know an essay or study that can help me understand this phenomena? Second, I am a dissatisfied with the motives for family gathering during the holiday season. Specifically, I am...

To pry from the cold dead hands of chaos the first animalcules of “the hundred-gated...

io9s were marketed as cheap time machines in the 2070s. They were actually just low-grade...

In our future there should be no more masses and no more herding, only free thinkers and reasoning opposers. There is only one stance that threatens the ascent of man, and that is ignorance...and what is infinately worse, collective ignorance. I think we are witnessing a major backlash of religious fundamentalism in Western society today,...

Bear with me as I ramble through some general thoughts on the upcoming development of us humans... The topic of this project is an interesting one, as it's something we'll probably actually have to deal with within our lifetimes. Something bothers me about the project description from the first line though. What will happen when for the...

Have a green thumb? Want to spread the love and plant some yummy-licious fruit, green...

If the day ever comes, there would be countless designers out of the tee shirt business.

I'm proud to congrats you the New Year with a very national video. Those were the last moments of...

The following article is long and quite condensed; I have therefore divided it into five posts I...

Moscow’s rapidly growing skyline will soon feature an eye-popping new addition: Crystal...

Ah yes, the soul. One of the most difficult aspects of the human being to be defined, and thus confined, into wording understandable by even the most prodigious scientists and philosophers. And yet, millions of people firmly believe in its existence, though there has been little proof in recorded history of empirical evidence suggesting its...

"Life should be a construction of doubts."Antónia de Sousa, Dialogues with Agostinho da Silva In Homer's Iliad, Aquiles tells that the Gods are jealous of humans' mortality, that immortality is a incommensurable burden for them. On second thought, maybe we're jealous of the Gods for it's irresponsible puppeteering. ...

Throughout the history of art there have always been representations of mysterious objects in the...

A reversed-polarity sunspot was detected today, marking solar minimum and the beginning of the 24th solar cycle (since humans first recorded the undulating pattern of solar intensity nearly 400 years ago).Solar cycles appear to last on average about 11 years, taking a few years to rise and fall between the peaks and troughs of solar activity. The...

The mutant and hybrid structure... SCENARIO 1 : This hybrid structure emerge to the ground...

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged...

This particular post doesn't have anything to do with philosophies or sciences, I just had a question for you all... If you are really stressed out, what do you do? Do lash out or calm down? Do you do anything at all?

This is probably a question that has been debated on several occasions, but it has hounded me for quite some time now! In your opinion.... What is the definition of love? What is required for love to exist? Personally, I have no short answers for this, and I'm curious to see how other people understand the concept.

August 22, 1916 I have given orders to my death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking race. It is only in this manner that we can acquire the vital territory which we need. After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians? -Adolf Hitler If Hitler had succeeded...

“Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know”

"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is...

A Boltzmann brain is a hypothesized self-aware entity which arises due to random fluctuations out of some future state of chaos. The idea is named for physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, who had advanced an idea that the known universe arose as a random fluctuation, similar to process through which Boltzmann brains might arise. Boltzmann brains are...

Motto of Paradigm magazine. Via this. It really resonated with thinking about the future for me.

ORGANIMECHANIC | Simulation of Animals in Motion through geometric forms Geometric shapes are...

I was waiting for Mona to drive her VW Beetle through the gate I had opened. We were entering...

When I was very young and my grandfather was very old we played a game that he taught me. He called...

I'm normally a cynical, angry bastard, but in the spirit of new beginnings, I've decided to make a list of five great things about 2007. Top Five things about 2007 5. Music- Despite what you hear on the radio and what you see on MTV, 2007 was a GREAT year for music. There were so many great releases this year, it made me hopeful for the...