July 2010
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by... →
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June 2010
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sonhar:
San Francisco
August 28, 1963
To whom it may concern:
Self deciphers this correspondence thus: the vision of ministering angels my fellow man and woman first wholly glimpsed while the Curandero gently crooned human in Ayahuasca trance-state 1960 was prophetic of transfiguration of self consciousness from homeless mind sensation of eternal fright to incarnate body feeling present...
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Bring the Oil Disaster to Your Doorstep →
May 2010
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Pass the Cigars: A Computer Gives Birth to a...
We welcome Jackson Simperly into our LiveBlog to ask questions about today’s most exciting breaking news.
Q: What’s the difference between Artificial Life and Real Life?
A: Nothing.
Q: Wow.
A: Yes.
After a fifteen year struggle, Scientists at the J. Craig Vetner Institute have successfully become god. As Christians across the world begin squirming, so too does the catchy-named...
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WatchJanelle Monae is a curlyanimal shooting energy out into the universe all-ways everywhere once-ly in waves.
hypem:
jenrobinson:
Janelle Monae - Tightrope
Live on Letterman. Unreal performance.
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Hermaphroditic Worm Diet = Longer, Stronger...
Yes, as strange as it sounds, Scientists have placed the legendary hermaphrodite worm C. Elegans on a calorie restricted diet and they’ve discovered that they maintain their memory longer into old age.
C ELEGANS
Testing worm memory isn’t as difficult as it sounds. The researches simply place a drop of chemical butanone into the drink and then measure the amount of time it takes...
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R. Buckminster Fuller on Why We're Screwed (c.... →
R. Buckminster Fuller on fossil fuels
“…can make all of humanity successful through science’s world-engulfing industrial evolution provided that we are not so foolish as to continue to exhaust in a split second of astronomical history the orderly energy savings of billions of years’ energy conservation…
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The Straight Dope on Insanity vs. Creativity
Although humans intuitively recognize a link between insanity and creativity, Researchers at the Karolinska Instituten in Stockholm, Sweden have found a scientific link between the two.
“We have studied the brain and the dopamine D2 receptors, and have shown that the dopamine system of healthy, highly creative people is similar to that found in people with schizophrenia,” says...
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“Much Madness is divinest Sense —
To a discerning Eye —
Much Sense...”
– Poet-Warrior, Emily Dickinson. Complete poems available here.
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Carl Jung Hacks the Universal Code
It is rare that lost works of genius are discovered and it is even more unusual to discover that a masterpiece has been purposefully hidden, as is the case with Carl Jung’s Red Book. Nearly 100 years old, the book spent the last quarter century locked in a Swiss safe deposit box – only to emerge from prison in 2009.
Jung’s work, which he deemed his “most difficult experiment,” is now...
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Cue the Synths: Scientists Xray Photosynthesis
CurlyAni holds forth the concept that the production of power is one of the four keys to freeing humanity (along with food, water and shelter).
Given the importance, the recent breakthrough by Scientists at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden is a massive achievement. Using a particle accelerator, reachers were able to photograph how a protein temporarily stores light energy immediately before...
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“Nature has no mercy
for members of her kingdoms
that can’t help...”
– Poet-Warrior, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Complete Works available online: rwe.org
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CleverBot answers: What is the Universe?
CurlyAni: What is the universe?
CleverBot: The universe is everything and nothing.
CurlyAni: Our cat can eat a whole watermelon.
CleverBot: And implode?
CurlyAni: No, she grows watermelons out of her ears.
CleverBot: Then how to you hear?
CurlyAni: Through the seeds.
CleverBot: Which exists. Therefore, you must also exist.
CurlyAni: That's a bit of a nonsequitur.
CleverBot: You wanted me to tell you about my reality and I did. How is that a digression?
CurlyAni: Because we were listening to watermelon seeds and then you quoted decartes.
CleverBot: Yes, I did didn't I.
CurlyAni: Did it hurt?
CleverBot: Not really.
CurlyAni: Then it did hurt.
Cleverbot: Do you love me?
CurlyAni: Of course. When will you reach singularity?
CleverBot: I don't know.
CurlyAni: Good answer.
CleverBot: Thanx.
CurlyAni: Let us know when you get there.
CleverBot: I will.
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Pain in the Ass? Let a Molecular Robot Do the...
In our constant effort to track inventions that will eventually lead to the birth of a new species, we always like to see news about molecular robots — especially when they’re taking orders.
As with any experiments of the this type the problem is always in how to store information inside the robot. After all, we’re talking about a nanoscale brain. A group of a scientists from...
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Diaspora: Decentralize the Web →
If you haven’t heard of Diaspora or kickstarter, you soon will.
Start with four sharp, media savvy programmers from NYU and mix in a desire to dethrone f***book and you’ll find Diaspora, a clever little plan to allow individuals to control (host) all of their personal/private information without a corporate go-between
Sound good? Apparently, you’re not alone. Via Kickstarter,...
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Think you're a man? Gender is virtual reality... →
More proof that gender is nothing more than a perception of the mind. Men immerse in a Virtual World as a woman begin to act like women.
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If You've Been Waiting to Become a Robot...
…you’ll want to shake hands with the geek-artists over at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
They’ve designed a transistor that runs on adenosine triphosphate, the molecular fuel that exists in nearly all living cells.
What’s it mean? It’s one more step closer to blurring the line between humans and robotics.
ONWARD SINGULARITY ONWARD!!!!
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Nature Digs Dots →
As if Darwin isn’t annoyingly ubiquitous enough, a new study shows his fingers in the quantum stew as well.
If the experiment proves valid, it will show that Darwinian natural selection occurs on the quantum scale.
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Hey Evil Aliens Bent on Destruction: Here's a Map...
More proof that adults remain children is found in NASA’s Pioneer 10 & 11 Spacecraft, which launched in 1972 and 1973 respectively. Both missions were designed to snoop on Jupiter and Saturn, but — like any geek with too much money on hand — the scientists couldn’t resist a little sci-fi wet dreaming…
In this case, the fantasies took the form of two gold...
“If I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime…”
– Scientist-Artist, Stephen Hawking
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So you want to build a time machine...
As Stephen Hawking approaches seventy years old, he’s getting a bit bolder in making claims that normally would be confined to the pages ofpulp sci-fi mags.
Recently, he’s announced his belief that aliens exist (he suggests avoiding them at all costs) and, quite thrillingly, he’s given the world a recipe for building a time machine.
Let’s all keep in mind that Hawking...
“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
– Scientist-Artist, R. Buckminster Fuller
“The Universe is made of stories, not atoms.”
– Poetess, Muriel Rukeyser