Nary a post goes by when I don't feel compelled to share a relevant book. I'd like to propose a collective recommended reading list, and in beginning this list I'll paraphrase the first page of my first recommendation. It's from a book called "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Many people, when they see an immense...

What Hope for real Change in America? "With slogans promising Hope, Belief and Change, there is a surge of excitement around the US presidential primaries. But can anybody tell us what the Obama-Clinton contest is about?" "Search high and low for the candidates’ clear political positions and principles, and if you find any do...

An excerpt from an older, but still intriguing, article about what may happen to the human race in...

Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn...

Steve Fossett successfully circumnavigated the globe in the Bud Light Spirit of Freedom, a Rozière...

Brian Jones (UK) and Bertrand Piccard (SUI) successfully circumnavigated the globe in the Breitling...

Cause, Principle, and Unity - Gordon Terry This acrylic piece has an organic feel to it,...

"The big demonstrations in London and Washington against the US attack on Iraq a few years ago offer an exemplary case of this strange symbiotic relationship between power and resistance. Their paradoxical outcome was that both sides were satisfied. The protesters saved their beautiful souls: they made it clear that they don’t agree with...

Asch conformity experiments

originally posted by thelogos as discussed in class emergence seems to happen from a set of...

The games become tools. Tools become games

1. I found this picture interesting because it's a fractal, but it was still able to achieve a...

Mars sux cuz its sun is way tinier than ours.

Due 9 January 2008 1. Find an image at the Space Collective that you find fascinating. 2. Search for and find an image within the context of the Space Collective that has not been posted. Research both images and verbally present your findings in class on the 9th. When you get your Space Collective account, make this information your...

how is it we can understand when speaking speaking speaking filling space fragile...

SOUL FLIPPER (by Coop Himmelblau*) is a.... face helmet that is sensitized to react to...

The Blue Brain Project: Visualization of activity in the neocortical column of the brain....

"And at the end, like the crack of a whip he said: "I think that one day, the part of...

Biology and social order Social organization is considered to be the platform of culture....

Since 11 Sept 2001 and the creation of the DHS which followed, some people (How many? I don't know) entering the US have been subjected to a variety of humiliations. Every Internet news savvy leftist and civil libertarian is familiar with stories of unwarranted detentions, deportations, odd "security" interrogations and so...

Quote from George Steiner, the greatest evolutionist in language. Found in...

image 1: in the context of space collective: The underlying spirit of Erwin Wurm's sculpture is described, in the online catalogue, as a "dynamic act" as opposed to a "static object." For the most part, I guess it is perhaps the evidence of a 'process' behind the car's obesity that gives this static piece its dynamism,...

Skyscraper Airport of Tomorrow - via BoingBoing .. a 200 story building capped by and...

Ahh... Space Collective here I am. The first assignment was to find two images and research and...

A magnectic particle simulation done in processing by Robert Hodgin. Particles follow simple...

FILL / SPACE Develop a generative, emergent process to fill space (2D or 3D) using only black lines. Modify a known process or invent your own. Implement your process as object-oriented, full-screen software, in Processing. You may work individually or with a partner. There are five phases: research, concept, prototype, refine, document....

I present in this post two pictures of the Internet. Both depict data and the inherently invisible...

decod.lab

The more value our culture places on the self results in greater feelings of alienation and...

3x4' Watercolor, pen, pencil, and whatever else I had in my desk.

3x4' watercolor, pen, pencil, whatever else I had in my desk.

Computer Models The first nCUBE machines to be released were the nCUBE 10 of late 1985. These were based on a set of custom chips, including a 32-bit ALU and a 64-bit IEEE 754 FPU with 128kB of RAM combined onto a board known as a module. Each module delivered 2 MIPS, 500 kiloflops (32-bit single precision), or 300 kiloflops (64-bit double...

Here is the question: can we think without language? A recent piece on Cognitive Daily (one of the...

Presentation given at "Physics of Consciousness" conference, Virginia, 2004, in which...

Wrote this back in my sophomore year. In gym class, no less. My rendition of what it feels like to find someone, then lose them. *ahem* I stared into the abyss of your eyes Trying to see past the pretty face Into a world where parallel lines Intersected into infinity, where the Impossible happened.... The impossible being me...

I found this article in Wired Magazine on the net that discusses two creative types: Conceptualists and Experimentalists. The idea was new to me. I hope it's not old news to most of you. “Picasso and Cézanne represent radically different approaches to creation. Picasso thought through his works carefully before he put brush to paper. Like...

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Redefining human identity …. By August 3rd 2092, John B. Derrick will be 25 years old. He is...

This graph represents a genealogical distribution of Knowledge based on the French...

"Experimental Studio no.1" 2005 bonemeal, glue 157 x 270 x 17 cm The...

Where did it all start? Did it all start? Or is starting a purely human concept designed to help...