Throughout the history of art there have always been representations of mysterious objects in the...

i am reliving my post-dental appointment stress all over again. i hate it. they don’t even...

image by kaneda99 I saw this reeeally interesting manual in December's edition of...

Happy Holidays? I love you? More than ever, I am overwhelmed and confused by the holiday season. First, I am astonished by the gift buying frenzy. Does anyone know an essay or study that can help me understand this phenomena? Second, I am a dissatisfied with the motives for family gathering during the holiday season. Specifically, I am...

I love images of inner and outer space.

My friend Jenna posted this BEAUTIFUL ballet video on her blog, and I must share. Where did...

In pursuit of evidence that life arose on Earth more than once, scientists are searching for...

The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting...

I present here a series of propositions, which describe the manner in which I see...

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As we're building out human-centered next-gen profiles for the Collaboratory, we wanted an...

When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder,...

When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder,...

... our children can only do as bad as we are doing, and this is the challenge we are facing - we...

This mini-paper was given at the Escapologies symposium, at Goldsmiths University, on the 5th of...

Saving Humanity from Homo Sapiens SHfHS is dedicated to preventing threats to humankind brought about by humans.

Described as a “knowledge collider,” and now with a pledge of one billion euros from the...

Socrates said, "The misuse of language induces evil in the soul." He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in...

Right now, as you sit in front of your computer screen reading this line of text, the future is...

Are we able to develop holographic mathematics to describe the holographic universe? Is...

The Future of Art an immediated autodocumentary What are the defining aesthetics of art in...

When the life insurance guy called encouraging me bump up my plan from term insurance to whole life...

Dealing with Paradoxes #1 A strange thought occurred to me during my chemical engineering class, and it has something to do with predicting - with certainty - one's own future, and solving the metaphorical Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle application problem. Suppose you have a hypothetical machine that predicts the future and conveys...

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me....

1. Change yourself. “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” “As human...

there is a state of slumber that is not sleep. and one sort of truth that comes out of us...

The universe equals Chaitin's Constant. I will explain how to use it statistically to create a...

This is the first in a series of posts about art, the moon, and art on the moon. You would think...

What is the true nature of the Universe? Are we its true nature? Is ours the inevitable path of...

phases are cycling through the increase of momentum brought on by interplay sequenced through...

Neogrid e.V. is a german a non-profit association and runs an independent encyclopedia on...

In a rather bland philosophy book I was reading the other day, there was a curious statement...

In protest of hyper-speed culture and media: How much of what you say is important? How much of...

Phenomenal short story. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — © 1956 The last question...

Are you there? Can you help me? I like hearing music from Space Collective, especially whilst...

If we would want a space colony of 100 people to represent the world’s population accurately, the demographics would look something like this: The colony would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific 51 would be male, 49 would be female 82 would be...

We say the map is different from the territory. But what is the territory? Operationally,...

Learning to swim or learning a foreign language means composing the singular points of...

The idea that change is a transitional phase between two stable states is ridiculed by everyday...

These are some experiments with human bodies. The work is based in tridimensional...

The inventions of philosophy are no less fantastic than those of art: Josiah Royce, in the...

"Nothing is now unconscious if your data search commands are powerful enough."

In my last post on HFD, I covered the basics of holopticism, noting that a many-membered view of...

Throughout human history, people have been asking the same questions about the nature of the...

The sticker network is a network made with wirelless stickers. Control over the internet leads to a new form of independent network: the sticker network. This is in fact an open internet wich may interconnect wirelless routers or work as standalone. All you have to do is stick arround. Glue stickers everywhere. Large quantities of stickers are...