"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...

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I prefer AMD more, but this is a cool little vid...

“Our anxieties quickly diminish if we give ourselves time to think them...

Ever hear of the ol' saying, "you can't set foot in the same river twice"? Well, the saying is indeed true; after all, you, and the river, change the instant after you pull your foot back out. Atoms have replaced themselves within both you and the water, along with the fact that the water you initially penetrated is now farther off...

In the US much talk can be heard about the Baby Boomer's beginning to collect S.S. The ideal is that all of us retire from whatever it is we do and begin to live comfortable, interesting and rewarding years away from the 9 to 5. For many this may be far from reality. To think of living in today's world on S.S. alone is a joke to keep it light....

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I have decided to take the bold step of trying to provide a fundamental working hypothesis for the...

In the 'tricity' of Gdynia-Sopot-Gdansk in Poland there is a suburb with a cathedral, Oliwa...

These words are breath on a cold morning drawn through the throat of the blood-gilled trout— the belly becomes white, becomes the belly of a cloud front tumbling over snow capped mountains. It doesn’t matter the hows or whys rather that there is nothing else at this moment & everything else from now on. The sun learns...

In honor of this year's Fractal Art contest I've decided to post about my experiences learning how...

lots of beautiful Fractals winners here

Inspired by this and in relation to this, I was discussing the possibility of dimensions beyond our...

I recently read an article by Manuel DeLanda discussing Non-Organic Life and the Mechanical...

Evolution, as we all know, has crawled to a halt. All we will see in the coming millennia is some...

There is an endless debate raging from just about forever about what constitutes the nature of a human, the following is a short list of features that to my mind belong to the human nature, should belong to the human nature or will belong to the human nature if and when we as a specie will evolve into a creature that is a bit more than a verbose...

It is a really good feeling to be part of a project with is neophil! In Germany, where i life, a huge amount of poeple is feared by the ongoing technical improvment. They would love to be back in the "good old days", but i am diffenrent. I hope i can find enough time to partitipate here, wanna learn and talk to poeple with are open...

My father once asked me a question a long while ago. Essentially, we were talking about religion and some of the aspects of it. He's committed to his beliefs but this time, he posed a question that didn't sound like him and one I occasionally ponder. "If God created the world and God is in control of what we consider our immediate...

is it beastiality? is it 'love' making if the other sentient being does not have the same...

Without meaning to enter too far into the realm of religeous discussion I'd like to share this...

When deciding what first to post here, there were only a few moments of mental debate before the...

just the other day i was having a conversation with rene about the usefulness of data...

Within the past year, I have become aware that my brain has been sabotaging my daily efforts to...

Art very seldom follows rules; it is dynamic, rhythmic, substantial, sporadic, expressive. However,...

This so-called curse of knowledge, a phrase used in a 1989 paper in The Journal of Political Economy, means that once you’ve become an expert in a particular subject, it’s hard to imagine not knowing what you do. Your conversations with others in the field are peppered with catch phrases and jargon that are foreign to the uninitiated. When...

When particles collides, what do we see? A glimpse of infinity? Jared Tarbell explores simulated...

The Standard Model that explains what the world is and what holds it together. It is a simple and...

a friend of mine invited me to join a tribe today. it sounded slightly cultish (a new god, initiation rituals, survival workshops), but in general i'm interested in fringe societies, and this friend of mine is an artist, so i agreed to follow its development. but it occured to me: there are going to be a shitload of end of the world cults around...