Simulated patterns for 5,6,7, &11 plane waves : This is a diffraction pattern of a real 3D...

Roles are immersive, dear diary app persona interface. Pause predicting bestsellers,measuring...

I found this quite profound, maybe I was too inebriated. The Secret Life of Chaos - BBC...

Watch this jaw dropping performing parrot called Snowball. It certainly makes one reconsider animal...

Truth in her ...

A true secret can be called out loud in...

Or, The Risk of Extrapolating Linear Trends Against Non-Linear Systems. A common habit in forecasting, particularly in energy futures & economic growth, is to take roughly linear trends and extend them over the next few decades. The notion is that there is inertia in what has already happened that will make the future look markedly similar,...

In many languages, Greek and Latin roots constitute an important part of the scientific...

I asked some questions a while back, in the entry No Secret. Namely, I wanted to...

I just found an excellent (5 year old) article to follow up an older post about Utopian...

And yet, and yet . . . Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the...

Biomimicry is a relatively new science that studies models, systems and processes from nature and...

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

postcard from waterland, amsterdam

The choice of responsibility “Natural selection won’t matter soon, not anywhere near as much...

I've just had the sudden urge to highlight some music videos from the past year or so... My...

A videomusical self-portrait. Berlin 2009

Homard (2008) from Romain de l'Ecotais on Vimeo. Here's one of the short-movies edited for a...

Reality, one thing, many details that serve one another Reality, one thing, many details that...

Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan expound on violence, alienation and the electronic envelope. The...

Click on the image to start the video Puma Punku, truly startles the...

Revolution entails perceiving the status quo for what it is, here and now, rather than through the...

Utopia has taken up residence in my frame of reference again, possessing me with glee, anguish, and...

I'm reading a copy of Douglas Rushkoff's 1994 book "Cyberia" on my computer (Click link...

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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. quote from Alan Watts via Dmitri

If you are so inclined . . . Excerpt from this: “The overall purpose of reconstructivism...

Individualism is a subject the fascinates me and the comparison between societies based on...

“A philosopher’s ontology is the set of entities he or she assumes to exist in reality, the types of entities he or she is committed to assert actually exist. Although in the history of philosophy there are a great variety of ontological commitments, we can very roughly classify these into three main groups. For some philosophers reality...

"The universe is queerer than we can suppose" (02005) Biologist Richard Dawkins...

This post will describe how to construct a pair of goggles which can be used to induce...

I'm curious as to what the Space Collective thinks about this subject; namely, Bohm's thoughts that...

Words themselves are becoming antiquated. Rarely enough do we even find an arrangement as worthy as these: Today, Homo sapiens is faced with a rapid modification of his environment, a transformation for which he is the involuntary collective agent. I am not implying that our species is threatened with extinction or that the “end of the...

“Ostensibly physical objects like tables and chairs are really nothing more than collections of...

Just the first few paragraphs of the paper. Leaving it up here for archive and for comments! :-) In a time where physical possessions begin to lose their once-crucial roles, where more and more live in multiple countries and spend much of their time traveling, where identity is becoming less rooted to a physical form and more to an...

Watch the video here I’ve always experienced dreams as a direct reflection of my inner...

Biopunk (a portmanteau word combining "biotechnology" and "punk") is a term...

Although it focuses on individual action (so it kinda opposes to my structuralist views of the social world), I find Goffman's interpretation of the human action quite interesting. Those of you who have read Erving Goffman know exactly how "catchy" his sociology is, and those of you who haven't...well I can tell you this: you don't...

Are you ready to have your mind blown? What if you can't count on another intelligence to speak your language? How do you communicate your accumulated knowledge? This is essentially the problem facing terrestrials in search of life "out there." We can take a clue from a past culture so strangely advanced (even by today's...

3v: “Your name is not Marie, but you have probably guessed that already” “how do you...

Contemplate replacing the concept of believing with the concept of holding. It’s hard to drop a...

It all begins when a Healer, guided by the Spirits, taps into the initiate's Kalimata or the...