Found image: This is a Tesseract, or hypercube, which is a 4-dimensional figure. ...

As an emblem of order, the crystal symbolizes objects created by adding self to self in order to...

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the super computer Deep Thought predicts that the...

In human world, we are often bounded by various identities. There are not just names, but also tons of other terms in relation to multiple fields and occasions. We do not just identify ourselves but also our dwelling nature by giving names to anything we see, smell, touch, and hear. However, our identification and classification are so messy that...

This manifesto is a few years old. In the years since Crystalpunk has organized workshops, and events as well as written a lot of texts and code that hopes to explain the vision. This is still the most basic text Crystalpunk has to explain what we are trying to do and I think it might be of interest to the readers of SpaceCollective. THE...

...rarely drink water. Instead, they have a highly water-efficient metabolism (their kidneys are at least four times more efficient at retaining water and excreting salt than those of humans) and manufacture water through a metabolic process called oxidative phosphorylation. One special feature of the kangaroo rat is the animal's efficient...

Antony Gromley, English sculptor. Gormley describes his work as "an attempt to materialise...

To aid in the gestation of a new project, I've been watching a whole lot of Carl Sagan...

I've been watching a lot of speeches from TED.com lately, and I've been tremendously inspired by their positive energy in a time that the media would paint as rather daunting. I hope to do something with my life as good as those noble people at TED are doing. As good as they are, it is difficult to criticize the people of TED, aka...

Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo Using photos of oft-snapped subjects...

Advanced Beauty, sample clip from flight404 on Vimeo.

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

+ 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...