Something that has continually interested me is the process of creating models that "simulate" some facet of nature. For a recent class, I created a simple model of a phenomenon that I experience nearly every day as a college student where one student begins to pack up and others follow, creating a positive-feedback loop that causes more...

Oh, please, mr. sandman, bring us all a new dream. Coolest cartoon I found out: check...

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Voyager 2...[entered] the heliosheath on Aug. 30, 2007. Because Voyager 2 crossed the heliosheath...

I sat in the window seat of a jumbo jet as Chicago, Illinois accepted darkness. As we lifted off, I noticed the lights lining the runway. We began to rise. Lights were speckled across vast amounts of concrete. We rose higher; we moved east. A sparkling multitude of green, red, blue, white, yellow, covered the airport ground. We rose higher,...

All the little mouses are on druggggssss, oh my! Lmao The most sane lookin mouse there is the one smokin the j. Check it out: (made at the University of Utah)

Read an interesting piece over the weekend about how we are actually still evolving on a genetic level as a species, despite scientific opinion over the last fifty years claiming the contrary. Always wondered whether our next evolutionary phase will be to actually move beyond the physical into a more spiritual context... or maybe that's just...

"The universe is queerer than we can suppose" (02005) Biologist Richard Dawkins...

It must have been twelve years ago. I was sitting in the Retro Cafe down at Salamanca Place here...

I am glad for this forum. There are many thoughts that I have had which had no place to go. Perhaps this is the place. Wish I knew who said this "Today’s solution is tomorrows problem" All to often; like a building with an out of square, or uneven foundation as each new part of the building gets built there is the need for...

The new cover for Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Illustrated by Frank Miller

I was reading my RSS feeds in Sage Firefox add-on of a post from Posthuman Blues about the Japanese...

two thousand and seven is a huge number. a great amount of time. even compared to it’s own...

The posts at emplaced (in What happen to nature?) and the internation initiative (in terrestrials)...

What might have baffled us once, the question of "saving the world," is now a non-issue; we know that we care only about people of selected qualities, namely matched intelligence, strength and character of the highest order. And with that, we do what writers do: appeal to those who aren't yet destroyed to wait out the end of humanity,...

DEVIL DIABOLO DIABOLO DIVERSE / DISPORA DI (multiplicity, scattered,...

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It would be far easier and would require less energy to build new, efficient cities than to attempt to update and solve the problems of the old ones. Future By Design proposes a city that would use the most sophisticated available resources and construction techniques. Its geometrically elegant and efficient circular arrangement will be surrounded...

"We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a...

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The solar-hybrid powered Honda 14 is an energy efficient, fully robotic commuting solution. A...

In memoriam Douglas Adams' speech at Digital Biota 2 Cambridge U.K., September...

December 16, 2007 This is my first post to the Personal Cargo Space. This project "The...

If there were water And no rock If there were rock And also water And water A spring A pool...

Songs Of Green Pheasant - Brody Jacket

Sound is a semantic language for us all. It delivers a litany of sonic symbols and temporal...

An email my brother Michael Anissimov sent to me in response to the three rant clips posted toward The Great Enhancement Debate, with short response commentary by myself: Haha interesting. Was this from that one interview with your friend's dad? Great to get these ideas out there for people to debate, I'll post these videos on my blog. ...

Flow 5.0 Flow 5.0 is an interactive landscape made out of hundreds of ventilators which...

I realized some years ago as I was typing that, much like speaking english, I articulate ideas via...

In this program, scientists discuss recent findings in parts of our universe that for some reason...

Do check the absurd Dr. G von Hagens from Germany who's experiments now are shown in musea through...

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holy shit. i'm trying to sign up for classes. it's my senoir year at UCLA. AND THERE IS NOTHING I WANT TO TAKE. This is serious. Outside of my my department (Design|Media Arts) there is nothing i want to learn from this institution. EVERYTHING ACADEMIC SEEMS COMPLETELY IRRELEVENT TO MY LIFE. What must be understood,...

"I wonder whether fractal images are not touching the very structure of our brains. Is there...

"...You know, whenever we show compassion, we ravage ourselves. Maybe it's true... Suffering makes life seem dismal and suspect. But I won't accept that. No, I won't accept that. Is that which is indispensable to life also harmful to it? No, it's not harmful. Of course it's not harmful. Remember Tolstoy? His suffering over the...

for a long while, I changed out my desktop wallpaper probably weekly, maybe more. i stumbled on...

So I was browsing through the gallery on this site, trying as best I could to avoid studying for exams and whatnot, when I came across the Hydrozoa Picture Gallery. I started scrolling down the page looking at all of the stunning images when I realized, wow, there are a lot of hydrozoa out there... If there are this many different types of,...

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An interesting way of calculating that is visually intuitive as well as practical. Octomatics.

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NASA researchers announced that a storm is coming — the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one,” she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a...