This beautiful picture was taken of Venus and Jupiter just as dawn approached. You can see a...

So in my daily browsing of the news online, I came across an article on Wired reporting how NASA is...

This mapping exercise places china at the intersection of three significant phenomena: ...

screenshot, Google Sky

screen shot, Google Sky Leo, Andromeda Galaxy NGC 3628 Coordinates: RA 02:03:58.0, DEC...

"in short information is a mode of perception, just as sound and just as color" HUMAN PERCEPTION -- SENSATIONS OF THE MIND there is no sound in nature, sound is how we perceive compression in air there is no color in nature, color is how we perieve wavelengths in electrtomagnetic radiation there is no information in nature,...

VARIETIES OF ELECTRODES AND RECORDING TECHNIQUES (measuring amount of electrical activity given...

Soak it up. This ball you sit on, called Earth, is huge. It is monstrous. Truly feel it. Let its enormity run through your veins and smother your brain. Feel it lying beneath you. It is unrelentingly, massively, frighteningly gigantic. It is bigger than any other object you've ever dealt with hand to hand. It shows us no mercy as we are...

Got it this weekend. It wasn't my first, but it felt much more sensitive than the one on my...

This program uses a simple algorithm that starts with two large lines and performs...

An Explanation for Time Dilation I. Introductions and Stuff. A friend of mine posed a question to me: Why is it that at high velocities, time is affected? This is a phenomenon called Time Dilation, a very important component in the Theory of Relativity. So this got me thinking, and I believe I have arrived at a plausible explanation to this....

Editing: oh wow, i just realized this post goes into the entire(ENTIRE) collection recent posts....

QUESTION ----------------- Original Message ----------------- From: cayla Date: Jan 30, 2008 3:28 PM answer me this: if you could transmit one human experience to an alien species (like make the alien species understand what it's like to taste lava cake, or what it's like to drum with fabric on your thighs) what experience would you...

Mastadon.

Linguistic Characteristics Esperanto is a constructed language that has no genealogical relation...

View Larger! I just finished this poster, it's designed to help gather contribution and...

Within our ideas of communication there has been a progression of thought from communicating with...

A couple months ago, there was an event at the Staples Center and at other locations worldwide...

It's interesting to think of all the ways in which we are able to modify our bodies in the age we...

Here's a video of my work so far. When scaling it down, the work began a sweeping...

Though humanoids in appearance, the Xims were not humans, definitely not. They never explained...

During fourth year high school, I was introduced to Pascal's "Wager" by my (slightly psychotic[1]) english teacher. Basically, in Wager, Pascal concludes that it is favorable to have faith and believe in God, because, well... it's basically a good gamble. Let me expound: A man has two options: atheism and theism. In both cases, there...

Our theory rests in the hopes of providing a catalyst that could potentially draw the interest...

Our group has decided "water" to be the theme for the research phase of this...

The ocean is blue because it reflects the sky. The sky is blue because the matter in it refracts...

The problem of course “is” the word “IS” If “is” “is not” then what...

The wholeness of the aesthetic experience cannot be subdivided and criticized in/by its parts. It...

When first confronted with John Horton Conway's wonderful Game of Life, it seems incredibly complex...

here is a drawing just finished... the title is "Push" or maybe "The Really Big...

The Long Now Foundation is currently building a clock that is meant to last for ten thousand...

These seven short stories and code poems tell of how Country came to be, of its search for...

Project 1: Refinement To visually demonstrate my concept of a "tipping point" with...

The Lighthouse Theory...

the humanity people. despite any technological advances and integration of artificiality into our beings, we will always, at our heart, be human. we must reach out on an emotional level to a forthcoming technological race.

Imagine an alien, Fox once said, who's come here to identify the planet's dominant form of intelligence. The alien has a look, then chooses. What do you think he picks? I probably shrugged. The zaibatsus, Fox said, the multinationals. The blood of a zaibatsu is information, not people. The structure is independent of the ...

Original Flocking code by Daniel Shiffman I was interested in the motion of flies and bees and...