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...

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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...

Readers: Do you think in hypertext? The era of the linear tome is dead, information is a web -...

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being built in a circular tunnel 27 km in circumference....

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-how do we get out of this self-referencial loop? -how do we get beyond the limitations of human...

I got the Guardian today, but my eyes didn't even reach the fold. They didn't even reach the...

Abandoned haunted UFO houses in Taiwan. Trully amazing. FLICKR GALLERY

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Enquanto coisas deveriam ser feitas, eu flutuo aqui, mais uma vez. Algumas séries que convergem ou seqüências que divergem ficam me esperando, me olhando, com raiva, pedindo pra serem analisadas, destituídas, defloradas. -- Alguns doces momentos, totalmente hipersensibilizados pelas observações do mundo permeadas de conversas...

Hanson Robotics may be on the leading edge of AI programming/synthetic humanoids to...

Generally, when Time is discussed in philosophy or in science -- including the works of classical Jewish philosophers -- it is understood as movement, or change. The movement of the planets, the ticking of a clock -- as long as these things occur, there is Time. If they cease, Time also ceases. In other words, Time is no more than the...

I've recently come across a rebuttle to the vision of a future Utopia, where humanity coexists...

I havn't been fortunate enough to finish reading this book yet. Regardless, this book has provided...

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As a globalized corporate state Dubai is dependent on a foreign workforce to sustain itself....

Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. (Harvey MacKay)

The problem with consciousness is that we don't know how or why the some of the elements in periodic table come together to create electrical synapses that cause inner visualization, creativity, emotions, and the like. From what I've gathered it can be a result of two things. either the human while evolving eventually found psychotropic drugs like...

Space Collective is a rousing party, and I hate to steal the punch bowl, but after the death of a...

i wish i can take photos with my eyes, convert what i see to live streaming video, write down my thoughts. i'm waiting for the future, a little bit tired of being in my human body.

Last month I explored outer space on dark grey, slightly sparkly paper. temples The...

“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'” The...

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