Most vegetarians and animal rights activists would say it is important to respect animals. I have...

Richard Hayes over at the Washington post has a critique of Ronald Green (Ronald M. Green is a...

I'm not sure if I totally grasped this concept, but according to this episode of Tech Nation,...

The following are clips of my research for Branding the Species. You can see the first trains of thought here: DMA Brand Lab II Blog How am I going to do this? I have no idea. For those unfamiliar, I study both Design and Linguistics. I love languages, and the idea of languages, and the idea that languages are...

"The lesson is thus the old Lacanian one: there is no big Other. The first to get it was Job - after Job is hit by calamities, his theological friends come, offering interpretations which render these calamities meaningful, and the greatness of Job is not so much to protest his innocence as to insist on the meaninglessness of his calamities...

The singularity- an optimistic take So, are we or are we not Transhumanists? That is a very...

Several recent articles have touched on robot-human relationships and similar avenues of sexual...

I've got a huge backlog of improvisations and outtakes from my band, BATTLEHOOCH. Here is a...

I am new to the collective and am not sure if this is the type of stuff we do, but I found this...

Japanese artist Hiromix, in her book 'Hiromix' by Steidl Press writes: "Youth reflects...

The Spread The Indent The Contained

I think this event will be instructive and illuminating on how human communication on one of...

The myth of normal: the media imposes an invisible set of rules and conventions through which...

There's a bit of a debate going on about wether or not the new Hadron Collider will create...

SMHS Rocket Club has made it to the finals in the Team America Rocket Challenge. As the Advisor to this group, I am very proud. This is our first year as a club and we made it to the finals! TEAM AMERICA ROCKETRY CHALLENGE $60,000 in Annual Prizes for Students & Schools • This event is an annual nation-wide rocketry-based aerospace...

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Through 'Engineers find 'missing link' of electronics' I found a link to a letter to Nature, The...

http://ludosabato.com "Mike Tucker’s Ludosabato launched today, and I’m loving it....

These images and algorithms might be of interest to the collective ( posted images are...

Today was announced that Adobe and a big group of tech brands launches de Open Screen Project. That is a very good step for the Flash Platform, and one more of the good way for establish a standard to sharing experiences and information across the air. Personally, I thought that to enjoy and understand all the things that come with this...

Thoughts on hypertext and time extension (continuing a discussion between obvious and...

a project from winter 2008: mapping of stains and cracks in the sidewalk with electromagnetic...

I figured this was a good idea. So, does anyone who has seen it actually want to discuss it? Official Website You can also torrent the DVD (legally, as the movie is free for distribution), but I'm not going to provide that link unless you ask. I don't really feel like looking it up right now. You can also buy the DVD from the site above for...

Flag designed by James Cadle in 1969 I've been doing a bit of independent research on...

For some reason my research brought my thoughts back to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In Highschool, we focused on how the creature yearns for Frankenstein's affection, for he is the creature's "father". Frankenstein denies his paternal duties because he cannot find those affectionate feelings in such a horrid beast. Creature gets no TLC,...

Last days, i'm working on the second phase of Tvpro. This project is actually online, and you can...

I've just discovered Twine.com, a socially semantic web organiser of data, in 'twines'. Apparently...

I like it! "The Atomic Age Whether the effect you're after is "Mid-Century...

Nine years ago scientists discovered the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and slowly...

Two realms of self-enhancement In three parts: Introduction The concrete realm The...

The universal power of touch Eva Scherer is frustrated that people in her adoptive country are afraid of touch. She says New Zealand is a "low touch" culture and she believes that many of the health and social problems experienced by children may stem from an aversion to touching. Ms Scherer moved to New Zealand from Poland five...

Here is an excerpt from a cultural athropology book defining high and low touch culture. Read here

Our Parenting Choices by Pam Leo "Everyday, every parent makes major and minor, conscious and unconscious decisions about how to interact with their children. We may be pushed by the traditions of culture, or the approval or disapproval of family members, but in the end, all parents decide for themselves how to treat their...

in this post i'm planning to break the conventional rules of posting in a "professional" environment by presenting my own thoughts and slightly intelligible opinions construced in a intoxicated environment. i find it dif if difficult to find the proper letters on my keyboard. this might take a while. struggling as fuck to find the...

Right Here

Yoko Ono THE TOUCH For months my hand was sealed off in a tin box. Nothing was there but the subway railings. Perhaps it is bruised, I thought, and that is why they have locked it up. You could tell time by this, I thought, like a clock, by its five knuckles and the thin underground veins. It lay there like an unconscious...

Here are a few videos that document human touch in its different forms.

What is unique to humans: we can express our feelings (or affect) through our hands. Two or more people voluntarily hold hands for one of the following reasons and purposes: in various rituals: handshake in certain religious services, to pray in various occult rituals to express friendship or love to enjoy physical intimacy (not...

A response to Wildcat's "My cranium, my castle?" Thank you Wildcat for the...

This slice in hyperspace follows on from these past posts: How things 'become': The infinity of...