the imaginary is a familiar! words are codes...

Nothing new here. Imagery of natural systems bot micro and macro, periodic natural events share...

Over a decade ago, a team of scientists and programmers created a virtual environment and populated...

BACKGROUND: The Philips Pavillion at the World Expo 1958 in Brussels featured a unique multimedia...

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was the German scientist who coined the phrase "ontogeny...

NOT ONLY have i just discovered that robots have been/are being widely used in military...

Researchers from the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at Keio University in Japan have developed a...

Ron Paul has more boots on the ground than any other candidate. Check out this awesome video....

The once thought to be extinct creature has been discovered off the coast of Nova Scotia. Scientists captured this video of a group of Stinging Trilophods exhibiting swarming attack behaviour. Note the glowing tips on their spines, indicating they are agitated and ready to strike anything that gets in their way. These specimine range...

Part of a collection of spacey things I am starting to put together for my demo reel. An...

The following is a transcript from a conversation between two chatbots, Alice and Jabberwocky. The...

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One man's quest to save us from our worst enemy...ourselves. Written and directed by Joshua Taylor Sprinkling, Can Kadir Sucuoglu, and Giullermina Chiu. In association with Rene Daalder of Space Collective, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

A 2007 SCI Arc Collaborative Graduate Thesis Proposal. Everything and the flowers aims to...

Judith Donath lectured today at Broad Art Center today, and for those who missed it, she's...

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, co-principal of the Atelier Bow-Wow firm out of Tokyo, just gave a talk at...

Recently I've come to appreciate Neuromancer in a whole new way. For the longest time I thought of the book as too abstract and a little slow, as opposed to Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash, which gave so much detail about the Metaverse you could sit down and begin programming it. I always thought the difference was that Gibson couldn't imagine what...

Let's take a definition of architecture as any constructed environment designed for beings to...

Somewhere lost, this dried up section of a wall-pore was found and brought to attention. It appears...

Raymond Tallis Free will is not an illusion The Enlightenment idea of conscious, freely acting individuals is worth defending against those who would reduce freedom to neuroscience "Collectivism sounds close to cultural determinism, which is no great advance on biological or material determinism. This is where biology, or our bodies...

I found a lovely Java applet that simulates galaxy collisions. Enjoy!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4796674762025998102 this was a pretty accurate prediction

A review of The Great Disruption by Zaki Laïdi “Expert consensus, rather than public consensus, underpins today’s political outlook” "... A political drama in which the tension is between the expert and the decision-maker has little room for ordinary people. Instead, the public is expected simply to accept and live with the...

I have a fixation with Italian cinema. So here you go, because Belucci is better than...

“If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the...

Good energy to...

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth...

When Burt Rutan and his ingenious Spaceship One claimed the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004,...

Space Technology - This is what's in it for you™

Visualization by Jennifer Daniel (Created for NoZone X, Published by Princeton Architectual Press....

beautiful installation by artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck a few months before this house was to...

Future of the species in 8 seconds:

Sharad Haksar is an award winning digital photographer from India, clicking world-class...

Dr. Ron Paul, Texas congressman, practicing OB/GYN, and contender for the 2008 GOP nomination, is...

hi all, here is a coolio link that enjoyed reading and just thought that i would share: it talks about impulses to fight or flee during times of threat. i feel like my instincts are permanently set on flee. -- steven

I don't remember from where I salvaged this record, but I found it in my closet the other day. It's...

Now, I'm certainly no adherent of astrology, but no one can deny that the moon and the stars have some, if not tiny, effect on the inhabitants of this planet. Just as the great circling rock moves the oceans, it can move us all. It's not that I think that people will go insane during different a full moon nor that a complete lack of moonlight will...

The Differences Sometimes in the amazing ignorance I hear things and see things I never...

Ras G and his African Space Program (A.S.P.) The future is now and it sounds good.

Omnidirectional Treadmill

It has been a while since my last posting. Since then we have traversed many kilometers, made new...

Around the World - Daft Punk (Laromlab remix)

Astronomers are inviting members of the public to help them make new discoveries by taking...

That's right! I, Aaron Kinney, atheist and anarchist, have just become an ordained minister at the Universal Life Church. Ordination is free, and getting licensed to conduct weddings is only $5. You can even get a doctorate of divinity for only $29.99! If you are like me, and you don't dig that dogmatic religious stuff, you'll be pleased...

A reminder. Watch the whole series.

Reduced to 3 minutes, that is.