It was harder than I thought... there is NO convenient day to be blind, even in one eye. But I finally managed to put the eye patch on this morning. A sense of our surrounding space, depth, distance, and perspective is very crucial to our sanity. In-Progress

Okay, this has nothing to do whith anything but i have to say it. If you are Commenting on an...

Within the past year, I have become aware that my brain has been sabotaging my daily efforts to...

I wonder what a fish sounds like swimming?

Chondrophore or Porpita porpita is a gelatinous Cnidarians superficially resembling...

Oh, please, mr. sandman, bring us all a new dream. Coolest cartoon I found out: check...

It must have been twelve years ago. I was sitting in the Retro Cafe down at Salamanca Place here...

Sam Harris, Neuroscience researcher and author of "The End of Faith" and "Letter to a Christian Nation," recently co-authored a study entitled "Functional Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief and Uncertainty." And Time.com has an interesting article about it: Harris tested how the brain responded to assertions in...

So I was browsing through the gallery on this site, trying as best I could to avoid studying for exams and whatnot, when I came across the Hydrozoa Picture Gallery. I started scrolling down the page looking at all of the stunning images when I realized, wow, there are a lot of hydrozoa out there... If there are this many different types of,...

I was looking at a map today and an other one of those odd sixth grade questions suddenly hit me:...

Everyday there is a view that you and only you see. Maybe it's the ceiling in your bedroom. Or...

"Never Forever..." is a quantitative visualisation of the transient nature of empire. The...

“Maths Dreamed Universe” is a quantitative visualisation of the manner in which elemental...

Emerging brain-computer interface technologies are expanding the range of human expression,...

12 Piano notes made visible for the first time

We recently discussed Pattern Recognition and the role it plays in understanding and decision making. The next topic in this 12 part series is pulled out of the Futures Thinking toolbox: ::Environmental Scanning:: Traditionally, environmental scanning is explained within a business context as a strategic approach to acquiring information...

In June 2009 I mapped the protests in Iran with fervor and anxiety. It is possibly the largest collection of public video and images tracking the protests almost minute-by-minute. They are all on Hypercities, a mapping platform developed by Dr. Todd Presner and his research group at UCLA Digital Humanities. The Arab Spring prompted me to...

Might the repeated laboratory demonstration of purportedly non-local macro-level phenomena -...

Only That Illumined One ...

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober,...

All things dissolved into a field of moving lights, energetic and dancing in their constructions, appearing, dissipating, floating, and coming together again, circles of motions. The Great System breathes into eternity; operating, operating. It is a mode of transcendence, a new sublime. Traditional understanding is image-based, but the...

hyperparameters of hyperbiology, hyperneurology and hyperphysics communicate as they build...

In "Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art," Jacquelynn Bass and Mary Jane Jacob see as the...

What is alien? Definition number one: unfamiliar. By that description alone, a good 99% of life...

A Boltzmann brain is a hypothesized self-aware entity which arises due to random fluctuations out of some future state of chaos. The idea is named for physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, who had advanced an idea that the known universe arose as a random fluctuation, similar to process through which Boltzmann brains might arise. Boltzmann brains are...

Delia Elena San Marco by J. L. Borges We said goodbye on a corner in Once. From the...

infosynaesthesia & memetabiosis :: biological. neurological and physical :: science and art...

fyi ---- Unlike Us: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives Invitation to join the network (a series of events, reader, workshops, online debates, campaigns etc.) Concept: Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures/HvA, Amsterdam) and Korinna Patelis (Cyprus University of Technology, Lemasol) Thanks to Marc...

Could Einstein's Theory of Relativity be slipping into the past as a discredited misunderstanding? And could it be replaced with an intuitive and simplified scientific truth that was discovered over a century ago? A major turning point in the public’s understanding of science came about a century ago, with the introduction of Einstein’s...

Let's start this introduction of this exploration of how randomly-selected independent...

In my childhood I was a fervent worshiper of the tiger: not the jaguar, the spotted...

Ed: This is an essay I wrote for my friends at the World Science Festival, riffing on the central...

This is intended to be read after Identifying the Differences Between Human vs. Computer...

This essay was originally published on my site: MachineMachine.net In two short essays –...

In this book, I discovered one of the most inspiring (fore)words in the area of BRAIN SCIENCE that swiftly explain consciousness as if it never represented much of a problem. I am sure you will enjoy. "Modeling Phase Transitions in the Brain" Editors: D. Alistair Steyn-Ross · Moira Steyn-Ross Early in the 19th century debates on...

Correcting the implied perpetuality of the traditional recycle symbol: According to the laws...

How do we make sense of our futures? How do we experience the presence of multiple possible...

A time of revolution and of change, of both the catastrophic collapse and the meteoric rise of...

Want better money? Jay, together with Venessa, Gabriel and Patrizia on Emergence Collective...

the ethics of exploration :: Science Fiction Meets Science Fact This is a part of a debate...

(Below are some brief thoughts on the effects on creativity in the Information Age, taken from...

[Cross-posted from Humanity + Magazine.] Emergent technologies often inspire great excitement...

Drop City is a feature-length documentary film about an experimental community that blended...

You use a metaphor to describe some concept. The metaphor isn’t the thing you describe - it’s just a tool that you use. But someone takes the metaphor, and runs with it, making arguments that are built entirely on metaphor, but which bear no relation to the real underlying concept. And they believe that whatever conclusions they draw from...

Aaron Koblin Aaron Koblin gave us some impressions on the following questions for the Future...

Every thread sings singularity, together they make a melody... Some short reflections and...