Human connections through senses: MEDITATION After thinking about what really makes us HUMAN in first place, I thought it is extremely important to fully realize ourselves and learn who we are. As a human being, we do have unique ability to use 5 senses;taste, touch, see, hear, and smell. All five senses play important roles in connecting...

Enter: The Transbeing Frank Herbert wrote that: “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” And of course who in his true and integrated mind will not agree to this statement? So let us start or begin our knowledge of the coming singularity by observing the prediction wall that is in front of us, the...

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How much of me am I? After reflecting upon how I consider myself as an individual, I discussed...

I'd now like to take the time to bring to your attention two deeply moving and intellectually...

In considering the idea of branding the human species, one thing stuck out to me the most, which is this idea that we are all somehow interconnected into a society of control, be it at school, home or the workplace. In researching Deleuze and Foucault's essays, I realized just how complicated the matter of "individuality" really is and...

"A new game, named Foldit, turns protein folding into a competitive sport. Introductory...

Products will almost always come with instruction manuals on how to use the item properly, and...

Most vegetarians and animal rights activists would say it is important to respect animals. I have...

Richard Hayes over at the Washington post has a critique of Ronald Green (Ronald M. Green is a...

I'm not sure if I totally grasped this concept, but according to this episode of Tech Nation,...

The following are clips of my research for Branding the Species. You can see the first trains of thought here: DMA Brand Lab II Blog How am I going to do this? I have no idea. For those unfamiliar, I study both Design and Linguistics. I love languages, and the idea of languages, and the idea that languages are...

"The lesson is thus the old Lacanian one: there is no big Other. The first to get it was Job - after Job is hit by calamities, his theological friends come, offering interpretations which render these calamities meaningful, and the greatness of Job is not so much to protest his innocence as to insist on the meaninglessness of his calamities...

The singularity- an optimistic take So, are we or are we not Transhumanists? That is a very...

Several recent articles have touched on robot-human relationships and similar avenues of sexual...

I've got a huge backlog of improvisations and outtakes from my band, BATTLEHOOCH. Here is a...

I am a bad reader. Slow, ill-disciplined, with a wandering mind. I will rarely manage a...

I am new to the collective and am not sure if this is the type of stuff we do, but I found this...

Japanese artist Hiromix, in her book 'Hiromix' by Steidl Press writes: "Youth reflects...

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I think this event will be instructive and illuminating on how human communication on one of...

There is no thing endowed with life - from man, who is enslaving the elements, to the nimblest...

I turned my hand to digital illustration two hours ago and already I've bitten off my ear and made...

The myth of normal: the media imposes an invisible set of rules and conventions through which...

There's a bit of a debate going on about wether or not the new Hadron Collider will create...

SMHS Rocket Club has made it to the finals in the Team America Rocket Challenge. As the Advisor to this group, I am very proud. This is our first year as a club and we made it to the finals! TEAM AMERICA ROCKETRY CHALLENGE $60,000 in Annual Prizes for Students & Schools • This event is an annual nation-wide rocketry-based aerospace...

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smoother Version 3.1, it has an ending now. New link on tech towards uploading Henry Jacob was...

Through 'Engineers find 'missing link' of electronics' I found a link to a letter to Nature, The...

http://ludosabato.com "Mike Tucker’s Ludosabato launched today, and I’m loving it....

I added a comment to this post today, about photographs of libraries. I reproduce it here. I...

These images and algorithms might be of interest to the collective ( posted images are...

Today was announced that Adobe and a big group of tech brands launches de Open Screen Project. That is a very good step for the Flash Platform, and one more of the good way for establish a standard to sharing experiences and information across the air. Personally, I thought that to enjoy and understand all the things that come with this...

Thoughts on hypertext and time extension (continuing a discussion between obvious and...

a project from winter 2008: mapping of stains and cracks in the sidewalk with electromagnetic...

I figured this was a good idea. So, does anyone who has seen it actually want to discuss it? (If this takes off, I thought of making a separate 9/11 discussion section to post what I've uncovered in my research. Is this the right kind of place for something like that? Message me and tell me what you think.) Official Website (if you don't...

Flag designed by James Cadle in 1969 I've been doing a bit of independent research on...

For some reason my research brought my thoughts back to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In Highschool, we focused on how the creature yearns for Frankenstein's affection, for he is the creature's "father". Frankenstein denies his paternal duties because he cannot find those affectionate feelings in such a horrid beast. Creature gets no TLC,...