humor | Forbidden Gates: GRIN Technology & Spiritual Warfare — no kidding, actual book
September 7, 2010
Source: Tom and Nita Horn — August 26, 2010
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Health Tips | Happiness is green tea, apple smoothies, zen meditation, and sex
December 9, 2010 by David Despain
This week’s Health Tips column brings you ideas for finding happiness, tips for living to a ripe old age, parenting advice, and new ways to help you lose weight, lower blood pressure, and prevent chronic diseases.
HAPPINESS IS…
A social life. One reason why religious people tend to be happy and satisfied with their lives is not because of their beliefs, but belonging… read more
PopTech | Graphical expression of human emotion — video shows surprising consistencies: A new kind of Turing test?
February 15, 2011
PopTech | Designer Orlagh O’Brien asks, “What if we try to visually represent the emotions that are running through our body?” She gave a simple emotion-specific quiz to a group of 250 people. Asking respondents to describe five emotions — anger, joy, fear, sadness, and love — in drawings, colors, and words, O’Brien ended up with a set of media she used to create Emotionally}Vague, an online graphic interpretation
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Know Your Meme | Magnets, how exactly do they work?
April 27, 2011
Source: Know Your Meme — June 11, 2010
Know Your Meme | Internet Scientist Elspeth Jane of The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies explores the viral sensation that was Insane Clown Posse’s “Miracles,” aka “F***ing Magnets: How Do They Work?”
Dr. Steel’s ‘Singularity’ from People of Earth
January 15, 2011
Dr. Steel’s track “The Singularity,” from his 2002 album People of Earth, below.
Wikipedia | Doctor Steel is an American musician located in Southern California, popular in the Steampunk, Goth, and Rivethead scenes. He has performed on rare occasions with a “backup band”, claiming that a fictitious robot band had malfunctioned. Shows have incorporated puppetry, multimedia and performances by his street… read more
BOOK REVIEW | The Cosmic Landscape
March 12, 2006
Source: Fourmilog: None Dare Call It Reason — March 12, 2006
Leonard Susskind’s new book, The Cosmic Landscape, pits intelligent design against string theory and the megaverse.
Surprisingly, Autodesk founder John Walker sides with intelligent design, but not by a deity — by post-Singularity intelligences creating a reality simulation: “What would we expect to see if we inhabited a simulation? Well, there would probably be a discrete time step and granularity in position fixed by the time and position… read more
Health Tips | Stroke treatments, toxic chemicals in receipts, and new alcohol and sugar-drink risks
November 12, 2010 by David Despain
Welcome to our new weekly Health Tips column, covering breaking news of medical findings and other health-related information you can use now, or in the near future. This week: new stroke treatments, toxins in food packaging and cashier receipts, and new risks from alcohol and sugary drinks.
Three new stroke treatments: DHA, found in fish oil, protects the brain from damage and enhances recovery, even five hours… read more
Film Preview | Source Code movie combines mind-uploading, parallel universes, time travel, simulated reality
April 1, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
In the science-fiction movie Source Code (April 1 release), a secret program called “Source Code” sends a pilot back in time to cross over into another man’s identity and relive the last eight minutes of the passenger’s life on a train.
The mission: find a bomb that exploded on the train, killing everyone on board, to prevent another terrorist attack in six hours.
“People… read more
Why do giraffes have long necks?
July 19, 2009 by L. Stephen Coles
An article, “Why Do Dachshunds Have Short Legs? Science Has an Answer,” in R&D, July 17, 2009, reminds me of an observation. In the language of computer programming, a retrogene is a patch on a pre-existing piece of software. Could it be that the entire embryogenic/genomic network that dictates a creature’s morphology is nothing more than a set of onion-skin layers or patches on conserved coded-machinery that has worked before? If so, it’s going to take a lot of industrial-strength gene-insertion genomics to unravel it, since it has no real logic that would help us make sense of it and guide us to a proper reading frame. (This is more evidence that there’s no “intelligence” in the “Intelligent Design” of Darwinian evolution).… read more
Health Tips | Cardio risks, Vitamin D, alcohol, salt, and yogurt
November 19, 2010 by David Despain
Slashing stroke and heart disease risk, alcohol energy drinks, getting enough vitamin D in winter, and calorie restriction are among the topics covered in this week’s Health Tips.
Slashing stroke, heart disease risk with less stress and sleep: Too little sleep and poor sleep can bring high blood pressure and increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke [Emory University]; Women with high-stress jobs boost their heart… read more
Ever want to fly a remote-controlled plane over houses, recording cell-phone conversations and text messages at random and hacking into Wi-Fi networks and computers?
Well, first, click here and report yourself. Then check out the Defcon session (August 4–7, Las Vegas) by Mike Tassey and Richard Perkins on the latest version of their WASP (Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform).
“This session has everything… read more
The Onion | World’s oldest neurosurgeon turns 100
October 21, 2010
Source: The Onion — January 17, 2008
The Onion | Nothing can stop Carl Wainwright from doing what he loves best — performing surgery on the human brain.
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Nice Peter | Hi, my name is Nice Peter, and this is an Epic Rap Battle of History. Special thanks to all the cast and crew. (See full film credits here.)
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Wikipedia | M-theory and its p-branes
Wikipedia | Texas Instruments’ TI-82 graphing calculator… read more
Accelerate with Acceler8or!
June 7, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica
R. U. Sirius launched today his new Acceler8or website, “covering and uncovering accelerating culture from all imaginable vantage points and providing links — complete with snappy, playful headlines — to particularly cool, smart, funny or important stuff.
“Use us as your thoroughfare to all the best transhumanist bits and bytes, with a side order of strangeness and charm,” the website suggests.
R. U. was editor… read more