Optimism is a political act. Entrenched interests use despair, confusion and apathy to prevent change. They encourage modes of thinking which lead us to believe that problems are insolvable, that nothing we do can matter, that the issue is too complex to present even the opportunity for change. It is a long-standing political art to sow the...

The Art of Complex Problem Solving Filling the Vacuum An interesting and highly useful...

I have always been interested in human individuality and self-expression... The persons...

Sun The center, the hub, attracting all the VIPS, Where the hoi polloi meet and greet, The wise...

Over at Wired Mag, Clive Thompson, serves a fascinating piece of thought provoking words to incite...

A project Proposal: Polytopia , Our Mind Habitat in the Infoverse A dream you dream alone is...

I had a strange feeling when I saw one of the "animals" walking in the beach.

"List of cognitive biases"

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

species are now swimming in their primordial pudding , they will gain more and more...

The Library of Alexandria was an enormous repository of ancient wisdom situated in Egypt. Due to...

A reminder. Watch the whole series.

presenting the creamy dreamy and taffy world of San Francisco artist MARS 1

Paul Stamets, American mycologist & author, is a passionate believer that mushrooms/funghi,...

One of my favorites living artists, Olafur Elliason, has a new exhibition of work at the MoMA. ...

Following the last week announcement that Scientists have Put Exercise In A Pill This is a round...

We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed...

Mauro Fuke / 2008

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2019 Ultra-short -1- Franco the Gondolier I became nervous, it was 22 hundred hours and no one was coming for dinner, not that there was anything interesting to eat, just the Chinese carb rations dropped from above, and yet I thought that my fellow Italian refugees, will admire the prowess with which I, Franco, the old time gondolier, from...

The Law of Conservation of Energy, aka the first law of thermodynamics, is a very fundamental part of physics, and is instrumental to our understanding of the universe. But it also has profound theological implications. The second law of thermodynamics is often thrown around by God lovers as an attempt to justify their faith empirically. But...

One of my favourite artists is Mary Mattingly. Her visions of the future can be seen as...

"Experimental Studio no.1" 2005 bonemeal, glue 157 x 270 x 17 cm The...

"The brain acknowledges and remembers shapes first. [...] Color is the second in the...

Biology and social order Social organization is considered to be the platform of culture....

On and on does the lattice grow, information flows, and our minds converge, into a single, fiercely independent, decidedly autonomous, highly intelligent, and self-propelling emergent metaverse, the infoverse. The infoverse is where we will live. And we need a home. A mutually supportive habitat of sorts; A mind habitat, an infotat for our...

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1895

Here is a photo log (for some videos of our project, check here) of the ongoing project that was...

I’ve always been sort of troubled by the notion of ‘social networking’ websites, and as a result have never bothered to be involved in them – other than once, and that was business related. I don’t consider space collective to be one, as it’s intention does not seem to be to be a place to ‘hook up’ and show off all of the...

Do check the absurd Dr. G von Hagens from Germany who's experiments now are shown in musea through...

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested:...

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred...

Hello everybody. I am new to space collective and consequently have only had a limited exposure...

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LESSON1: SYNTHAX - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Before we start, we must keep in mind that Trauma was not originally created to fill conversational purposes but more to communicate a clear message quickly and descriptively. The...

"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is...

Antony Gromley, English sculptor. Gormley describes his work as "an attempt to materialise...

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

In the US much talk can be heard about the Baby Boomer's beginning to collect S.S. The ideal is that all of us retire from whatever it is we do and begin to live comfortable, interesting and rewarding years away from the 9 to 5. For many this may be far from reality. To think of living in today's world on S.S. alone is a joke to keep it light....

I found this article in Wired Magazine on the net that discusses two creative types: Conceptualists and Experimentalists. The idea was new to me. I hope it's not old news to most of you. “Picasso and Cézanne represent radically different approaches to creation. Picasso thought through his works carefully before he put brush to paper. Like...

Thanks Nancy.

We call wildflowers weeds, and we pull them out of our tame tidy gardens. The butterflies go away...

Back to what I was saying about knowledge being power. Knowledge encompasses a lot of things, but...

This post was originally composed for my blog and published many moons ago. Since its conception my...