A fascinating presentation by Anders Sandberg from the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford...

I don't usually post simple links to non-original content, but ... I think you guys might like this. These videos ( and excessive watching of star trek ) has convinced me that off-world colonies are essential for ensuring the continuation of our species in the event of a planet scale disaster. If we fail to complete a manned mission to...

A post by Dharmishta Rood explores the idea of "networked reading," reading where User Generated Content / User Created Content is the primary text. It begins by defining what UGC/UCC is: - Generated in a public digital setting. (ie Email ≠ UCC) - Users input items of creative worth. (ie Google Image ≠ UCC) - "...content...

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In our upcoming film The Terrestrials, made by a cast and crew of SpaceCollective members and...

Welcome to my fall 2009 foray into music theory. Really, I just stumbled across some music texts...

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. quote from Alan Watts via Dmitri

left to right, then top to bottom- and then what? a composition of 28 stills, each...

“The deterritorialization of the self is the essential feature that marks human entry into...

There's a lot going on lately, and I've been meaning to write something about the structural...

Featured in The Standard Hotel New York. From Architecture Newspaper Blog: During our...

From The New Yorker: Eric Sanderson is a landscape ecologist who is trying to determine exactly how...

House/Egg/Body/Soul/Horror Socio-Foundation Competition Entry: Michael Vlasopoulos...

A fascinating talk about emotions and feelings by Antonio Damasio, one of the most renowned...

THE CONCRETE CIRCUS The circus as ‘the ghost’ of...

Individualism is a subject the fascinates me and the comparison between societies based on...

I saw one of these fascinating TED stories a couple of days ago. A story about restoring a complex...

Last night we tested out some of the Goggles on the street. We visited all the drunk people to see...

SCRIBD-DOCUMENT-Hronoya-Bible-Revelation-11-the-Two-Witnesses-Return-of-Christ The...

THE RAINBOW BRIDGE - ANTAHKARANA There is the material world and the spiritual. Between lies...

Omega Point and the Noosphere By Jonathan Bethel - With the convenience of modern...

“A philosopher’s ontology is the set of entities he or she assumes to exist in reality, the types of entities he or she is committed to assert actually exist. Although in the history of philosophy there are a great variety of ontological commitments, we can very roughly classify these into three main groups. For some philosophers reality...

What if the revolution doesn't need a name? Or leaders? Or a formal agenda? The most wonderful thought could be this: shit happens. Perhaps this is a uniquely Australian idiom, perhaps not - and I don't wish to offend with profanity, we Australians swear a lot, and this phrase has even been used by a Parliamentarian in a memorable impromptu...

IV. Ideological Similarities "People who wear Halloween costumes are sometimes...

via things: By committing our memory to Google or the 'cloud' we have inadvertently created a great hunger for the intangible and ephemeral, the scraps and minutae of everyday life that get sucked into the circuitry and instantly forgotten. Already we are lamenting the loss of the unknown landscape as a result of global satellite imagery, gps...

Within our mythological sphere an epic-edge is unfolding, disclosing the current narration: we as...

Recently I had the thought: Perhaps there are just too many people on the planet to sustain a good life for individuals? Now, this was an interesting moment for me. The 'overpopulation' thesis is neither original nor novel, and arriving at this as a personal insight made me question the assumed lack of value in having unoriginal thoughts. I...

Designers are energised and fed by place. Where they choose to work, live and visit feeds the designer's mind, and their creative processes. My advice to designers seeking new places is to forget about the authentic. It's a sideshow, and a diversion. It's important, no doubt - but it is not everything. Consider, instead, what is actually going...

The Mesmerized Mind - Study of Hypnosis “The motor cortex is connected to the idea that it cannot move the left hand, So even if you try to move, it will neglect to send signals to the motor execution areas.”

haha i pissed off a doctor

by Manuel DeLanda One constant in the history of Western philosophy seems to be a certain conception of matter as an inert receptacle for forms that come from the outside. In other words, the genesis of form and structure seems to always involve resources that go beyond the capabilities of the material substratum of these forms and structures....

You draw a triangle on a surface of a sheet of circular shaped paper. You swirl and twist it by...

an 11 page wired article of one computer scientist's attempt at coming to terms with the looming dangers of advanced technology The Drives of Artificial Intelligence I am hopeful of the future. It seems to be the sanest way to continue living into the next day. But I still have my worries. Our leaders are pulling us into this insane...

Our physical environments are gaining intelligence as our geography transcends the analog. Before...

What if our current view of human history which Darwin's theory of evolution propagated is...

The Interlace, one of the largest and most ambitious residential developments in Singapore,...

I hope you have heard about the past Esquire E-Ink cover. I hope this because last October, to...

With this almost infinite informational web, regarding human proportions, we are controversially feeling more and more caged in this tiny round world, choked mainly by social rules and all sorts of socially induced wars and prohibitions that stops us from trying to rehearse and live different ways of living with much more wisdom and pleasure....

(from wildcat's blog) Building Brains: The Molecular Logic of Neural Circuits Memories are Made of This

Even though the brain contains about a trillion glia—10 times as many as there are neurons—the assumption was that those cells were nothing more than a passive support system. Glia, in fact, are busy multitaskers, guiding the brain’s development and sustaining it throughout our lives. Glia also listen carefully to their neighbors, and they...

This is a clip from Modern Marvels on the History Channel

As I began this project, so I begin the post - with the Koan, Hoshin's Last Poem: The Zen...