This article was originally published at 3quarksdaily and io9 Mid-way through H.G.Wells’ The...

A theory of aesthetics for object-oriented moving images.

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The ultimate Platonist these days is Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of...

The painter does not paint on a virgin canvas. The writer does not write on a blank...

I've been exploring the meaning of p2p with @notthisbody, and along the way trying to distill the concept down to a simple definition. The logic of p2p has long transcended file sharing and is beginning to transform everything from politics to our economy. 'peer-to-peer' only scratches the surface of what we mean by p2p. There are lots of...

Dear Friends, You may ask about my magic hyperbolic 0 curvature disc. How come? It looks really...

The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements When researchers found an unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner life of radioactive elements on Earth, it touched off a scientific detective investigation that could end up protecting the lives of space-walking astronauts and maybe rewriting some of the assumptions of...

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Hans Rosling, genius of data visualization at Gapminder leads us to grasp surprising big data and...

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Suzanne was telling me the history of Argentine tango, a dance that “grew up” in the narrow...

My ability to make statements in this world is complicated by the fact that most people are, in...

Noho, New York City 2010 space in use...

Illustration by Charles Glaubitz The object as product. The time of the product as merely the...

Is quantum theory weird enough for the real world? Our most successful theory of nature is bewilderingly remote from reality. But fixing that may require a weirder theory still PHYSICS, its practitioners will proudly tell you, is the most fundamental of sciences. Its theories and laws distil the workings of the real world - of particles...

The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting...

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. If you...

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DARPA is USA's military's advanced technology department. There's a lot of geniuses working...

Phenomenal short story. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — © 1956 The last question...

Pulsating heart of a fool Undermining feeling beginning to pray within your walls Long ago...

It was a bright, winter day. The icy, crystal air scraped at my cheeks. With every breath, the frost cut deeper into my throat. Right through the extra thick wool sweater, the cold clawed at my bones. It felt as I was naked past my skin. This time there was no hope of returning unscathed. Somehow the inert brightness and cold amplified my sight;...

conditiones sine quibus non identitas indiscernibilium (on the technological...

Alas. My computer is probably killing me. Isn't technology slowly killing us? It makes sense in evolution-that technology would slowly kill us all and not need a user. I sit with my laptop. Its warmth and humming noise sooth me. The warmth is like the warm touch of a humans....

Noho, New York City 2010.08.19

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You know that innocence they always talk about that slowly gets sucked out of your soul as you get older and older? Where they judge you if you talk about the magnificent chain of events that just happened in your mind all at once that have nothing to do with the current conversation? Where they shut down your every suggestion because it's not...

Artificial Intelligence learns what music is and creates instruments you play with the mouse. I...

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Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it...

Thea idea for this post begun as a response message at but it includes some extra ideas in here. I don't want to be understood wrong so maybe is better to read that one first, but is not compulsory. In 1+1=3i, I think the third one is the imagination. Is in us. Is the same situation like in ireal numbers. Is something in, deep in us that...

Dear Friends, You may ask about my magic hyperbolic 0 curvature disc. How come? It looks really...

This PowerPoint file (link below) contains 36 of the more important graphs published in The...

Getitindot.com, otherwise known as “GIIDC” is the next generation of social networking sites. We like to think of it as a cultural networking site! As the world seemingly gets smaller through the Internet, and people spend increasingly more time glued to their computer screens, watching other people sitting at their computer screens, we...

Ah, such a beautiful word. We've all felt it, some of us are feeling it right now but after all what's it to it? Me, I have a tendency of questioning everything, I demand reasons for all my actions, I try to explain events, feelings, relationships, and of course love. And you know what I've discovered? Statistics is the way to go when you're...

Its the Cuban son...

still today, no other thinker inspire and amaze me like Carl Sagan does... his enthusiasm with...