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Robert Sapolsky - The Uniqueness of Humans / Stress Response: Savior to Killer // Avian Einsteins // Imagining The 10th Dimension // Horizon: Psychedelic Science / How Does Your Memory Work? // Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind (+) / Secrets of the Mind // Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about...
Socrates said, "The misuse of language induces evil in the soul." He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in...
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The Museum of Animal Perspectives: Armadillo, Tarantula, Alligator (+) // Battle at Kruger // Koyaanisqatsi // The Secret Life of Plants // Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world // National Geographic: The Invisible World // HOME // A Crude Awakening // Life On Earth // Earth-Rise and Earth-Set // Carl...
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Kevin Kelly: What Does Technology Want? // Jonathan Zittrain: Minds For Sale / Future of the Internet // Google, The Machine / Inside the Mind of Google / Fuck Google Week Wrap Up // Nikola Tesla - The Forgotten Wizard // Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga // History of Video Games // People Like Us - Discovering Electronic Music...
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The Edge Annual Question 2010: How is the Internet changing the way you think? // Why Evolution Is True // lamenting the loss of the unknown landscape // Select Visuarals (02008-02009) // Perception Through / Language / Thru Perception // Cryptological Conundrums: Voynich Manuscript + Codex Seraphinianus // Václav Pajkrt - Projekt: 0 //...
Physicists in the US and Germany have used two fundamental tenets of quantum mechanics to perform a high-precision test of Einstein's general theory of relativity. The researchers exploited wave-particle duality and superposition within an atom interferometer to prove that an effect known as gravitational redshift – the slowing down of time near...
Our relationship to the Now touches the core of what it means to be alive and ultimately defines how we relate to everything in our world including ourselves. Strip away the religion from the teachings and Presence is what everyone from the Buddha to Jesus is preaching. Enlightenment, salvation, awakening … these are all just labels for being...
There are two things which have deeply terrified me in recent science news. The first, as you may have heard, is that a bumper crop of some 32 "new" planets was discovered by a team of European researchers armed with a spectrograph called HARPS, or High Accuracy Radial velocity Planetary Searcher. The second is that Israeli scientists...