A series of images from a short book on journeys. Each image has been corrected on a grid to give...

"Can surgery cure obesity?" It does several more wonders, pointing to the activity of hunger hormone Ghrelin. "Ghrelin plays a significant role in neurotrophy, particularly in the hippocampus, and is essential for cognitive adaptation to changing environments and the process of learning."

Since at least the fifth century, generations of Buddhists have memorized and chanted the Diamond Sutra, a short Mahayana Buddhist scripture. The work, which offers meditations on illusion and perception, was originally written in Sanskrit and first translated into Chinese in 402 A.D. Despite the text’s longevity, Stanford religious studies...

Thesis continues: When discussing the brain, neuroscientists modulate between expertise and...

old subducting plate melting at an ocean trench volcanic arc forms

Apparently the RZA had a very valid vision of the future circa 1997? Pick apart and appraise at will. Lots of truth in here and it reads (and listens) like wonderful poetry. Your thoughts? You can also listen if you have it on your hard drive/mind drive. Just click le link. Wu-Tang Clan - Impossible RZA's verse: Fusion of the five...

CELEOCANTH | & other ancient memories from the future - 2009 from Jason Gleeson on Vimeo.A...

Maybe this explains why aliens abduct Earthlings for sexual experiments.

It's not new but novel. Can't be undone but not completed. In the net I believe is already...

Manipulate photos to make objects look like miniature models: See more here

With all the hype flying around Augmented Reality lately, it's easy to assume the nascent tech is just another flash-in-the-pan destined to burn out in a fury of marketing gimmickry & sensational posturing. Yet, it's informative to consider the drivers pushing this trend and to tease out the truly adaptive value percolating beneath the...

The Serious ARG (Alternate Reality Game) In a 2007 article, columnist Chris Dahlen (of Pitchfork Media) voiced a much-discussed ARG concept: if ARGs can spark players to solve very hard fictional problems, could the games be used to solve real-world problems?[37] Dahlen was writing about World Without Oil, the first ARG centered on a serious...

If there is one thing I have enjoyed about Space Collective since its inception, it is the polymath...

About spidrondeformation: 1. it is not a folding in a traditional sense, as there is no stage...

well there is more to it i just cant seem to find the whole thing,this might be the whole things. but here is the link

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.transhumanism is older than it seems.

Recently I came across a very interesting article by Timothy Lenoir, bringing a fresh perspective on the concept Singularity and posthumanist future. In the introductory note Lenoir writes: Most researchers agree that there is no reason in principle why we will not eventually develop conscious machines that rival or surpass human...

The history of multicellular organisms - we really are just a bunch of cells working together. ...

I just ordered this pen. I can't wait to try it out. The idea is simple. You hold the pen up to...

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"The end of the world"?

Check out this human synthesizer - "humanthesizer" that uses Bare Conductive to, a...

Imagine if one minute from now, every single person on Earth disappeared. All 6.6 billion of us....

The following is a chunk of my thesis written for the UCLA Sociology department. I conducted six...

Now summer has passed, As if it had never been. It is warm in the sun. But this isn't...

Kevin Kelly 'An ultimate simulation needs an ultimate computer, and the new science of digitalism says that the universe itself is the ultimate computer — actually the only computer. Further, it says, all the computation of the human world, especially our puny little PCs, merely piggybacks on cycles of the great computer. Weaving together the...

Recent commissioned work I've done for RIDES MAGAZINE. Will be used as backgrounds for their...

Nothing much, but we all care for our desktops... "How Do Scientists Really Use Computers? A Web-based survey offers clues" by Greg Wilson (I wonder how's Nvidia Tesla advancing?

Attention - interest - sync - time passage, now there might be a measurement of the correlation by observing blinking. "Worried you'll blink and miss a crucial piece of the action? Then you can relax. While watching a film, we subconsciously control the timing of blinks to make sure we don't miss anything important. And because we tend to...

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Aug. 21, 2008 – Intel Corporation's chief technology officer took a fascinating look at how technology will bring man and machine much closer together by 2050. Cutting the Last Cord, Wireless Power Programmable Matter: Computers that Change Shape Robots: From the Factory Floor to Your Kitchen

I have been out and about for awhile and am just getting back to Space Collective. It is great to see it has continued to grow. I am currently helping develop a post-grad program at SCI-Arc named Mediascapes. We are looking to critically explore the nature of media, its evolution and how we can integrate critical research and philosophy into...

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Do you consider yourself a "visual" person? The FM 100 Hue Test puts forward a simple way of testing your color vision. Arrange the colored squares according to hue. The instructions are simple enough, but the test is tricky. I spent a good ten minutes working on this one, and got a bit of a headache as well. My results... I'm...

Original article at May 1, 2009 Doing science in the open Online networking tools are pervasive, but why have scientists been so slow to adopt many of them? Michael Nielsen explains how we can build a better culture of online collaboration In your high-school science classes you almost certainly learned Hooke’s law, relating a...

Imagine the person you love, someone you have known for decades, someone who has become the very meaning of your life, suddenly, and unexpectedly has a stroke. Their body is crippled to near uselessness, relinquishing them of their dignity. And, having lost the ability to communicate with them, you’re not even sure if their mind is as it was, if...

Brooklyn Banks New York City May 2009

Yet another augmented prologue It took me a while to figure how to continue from here. There...

New Concept: The Sphaper (Sphidron-paper) the 2D plane of the New Sphidron Geometry. I found some pictures of galaxies, and these made more important to describe some of my thoughts: IT IS Quite similar to our Sphidron formations: Interplanetary medium: Explanations how the real material is moving around the center and how the...

Scientific Sensation As you can see, four touching sphere's sphidronized polygon 'side' can be...

“There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or...

How's that "Freedom from Imperialism" thing working out for you?