[Update: I added a bit more in my theories section. I just woke up--4:15am--from a horrible dream... I caused a major catastrophe playing with nuclear fireworks! I woke from feeling incredibly ashamed for causing it though I also die! The funny thing is that when I first wrote this post, I had also been awaken by a dream.]
I took a casual...
Looks like space is going to be more than McDonalds, borscht, and Dim Sum. We may only be a few years away from the first Persian in space:
Iranian Space Program
I am in Tokyo and it is a little past 5am. It's a little past 1pm in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles -8GMT
Tokyo +9GMT
5am in Tokyo is one hour brighter than 5am in Los Angeles at this time of the year. Regardless, we all more or less know what 5am and 1pm feel like, and 1pm in Tokyo can be as miserable as 1pm in Los Angeles. 5pm rush hour looks...
Units Form Nets - Activity Follows Network
To begin with, designing form and determining function depend on emotional and intellectual motivation. In the realm of human affairs, as the selves complement each other, emotion and intellect condition the affairs. The type of imagination and memory activity that is from anxious and aggressive mind,...
On Thursday, NASA held a press conference to announce that the recent TEGA experiment on board Phoenix had confirmed the presence of water in the Martian soil. Whist exciting, Phoenix scientists were expecting that result. However, behind the scenes, something else was being discussed and it had little to do with melting water…
via...
"Sync"
by Steven H. Strogatz
Topic: coupled oscillators, applied math
Tonight the Beijing Olympic games (um... 2008) have opened with a huge bass of square drums made of bronze and wood that covered the central stadium. Each drum would glow when hit by a dedicated person, a drummer, or artist standing next. The performance was...
The discovery of an organizational hyper-structure whose hierarchical contour defies our normal abstracting ability - (and yet can be detected by a colossal metaabstraction reported by Plato and surnamed by him Noesis) is a matter of unparalleled importance, for this hyper-structure seems able progressively more and more to subsume its...
A while ago I began to question everything that was emerging as common ground within our/my generation.
We are all special, unique, hypocrites and most importantly always right. We are the exception to every rule, powerful but helpless and insecure. The internet has created grounds for multi-faceted identity like never before and its ability...