A series of studies find that activism brings pleasant emotions, greater life satisfaction, and more experiences of freedom, competence, and connection to others. 5|25|10 |
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Three books hunt for the elusive experience of absolute quiet and explore what we love and loathe in our decibel-blasted lifestyles. 5|13|10 |
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We must adjust to our unparalleled ability to shape the world's evolution. 5|10|10 |
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Universal declaration from the recent World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia. 5|5|10 |
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… You come to understand that it is the home of humanity. It is a totally different perspective – it is my home, it is the people’s home, and there are no borders there," says former cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov, the first man to walk in space. 5|5|10 |
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Brain cells that may underlie our ability to empathise with others have been detected directly in people for the first time. 4|27|10 |
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Our brain generates predictions of likely visual inputs so it can focus on dealing with the unexpected. 4|15|10 |
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Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha! Laughing, even fake laughing, increases your longevity because it releases hormones that reduce stress, enhance healing, and promote joy. 4|10|10 |
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As far as the internet or phone networks go, bad connections are bad news. Not so in the brain, where slower connections may make people more creative. 4|6|10 |
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Here's a fact to flatter the unbelievers among you: the bright young things at the University of Oxford are among the most godless groups ever studied in the UK. 4|6|10 |
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For however elusive happiness is to define, psychologist Tal Ben Shahar presents very specific things people can do each day that are proven to increase happiness. 4|1|10 |
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John Stewart argues that despite the perception that science has stripped the meaning from life, recent developments in evolutionary theory suggest that humans have a central role to play in the future of the universe. 3|17|10 |
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Biologist Anthony Cashmore argues that free will is an illusion derived from consciousness, but consciousness has an evolutionary advantage of conferring the illusion of responsibility. 3|17|10
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The emerging and surprising view of how the enteric nervous system in our bellies goes far beyond just processing the food we eat. 3|5|10 |
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On the pros and cons of 21st Century technologies, and the enhancing of human health, cognition, and performance. An article by Surfdaddy Orca. 3|5|10 |
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The Buddhist monk and author Matthieu Ricard explains how meditation improves mind and body alike, and how altruism could transform economics. 2|25|10 |
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A newly developed organic transistor has opened the way to new generations of neuro-inspired computers, capable of responding in a manner similar to the nervous system of the human brain. 2|21|10 |
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Human brains are slow to develop – a secret, perhaps, of our success. How do babies manage to turn things around in the end? Melody Dye explains. 2|17|10 |
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There are six emotions that we know everyone feels. But others may also be universal – and for good biological reasons. 2|9|10 |
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Our memories are strengthened during periods of rest while we are awake, not just during sleep, researchers at New York University have found. 2|5|10 |
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The ability to speak a second language isn’t the only thing that distinguishes bilingual people from their monolingual counterparts—their brains work differently, too. 1|29|10 |
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We have failed to explain how consciousness equates to neural activity inside the skull because the task is self-contradictory, argues Ray Tallis. 1|13|10 |
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The eight-circuit grid can be used to discover the great variety of human sexual response. We can imagine how sexuality might act as a vehicle for higher consciousness and unfathomable realities beyond our wildest fantasies in and out of our bodies. By Antero Alli. 1|9|10 |
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Does evidence from the reports of near death experiences suggest that the human mind, or soul, is separate from and irreducible to the human body? If the answer is yes, then what consequences does this have for our understanding of reality, science, and religion? An article by David Luke. 1|5|10 |
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Cooking food allowed our ancestors to evolve our big brains, the zoologist argues, and created the gender roles still observed by most people. 1|1|10 |
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This movie tells the story of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers from all around the world who came together to help us create a new way of life that will bring the planet back into balance before it's too late. 12|17|09 |
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Baruani Ndume received the 5th International Children’s Peace Prize from Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai for his efforts on behalf of children in a refugee camp in Tanzania. His radio program provides a platform for discussion about the problems encountered by children in the camp. 12|17|09 |
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What is the essence of human nature? Biologists are forming a better view of humankind than the traditional opinions of it as warlike and selfish. 12|13|09 |
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In his new novel, Lorenzo Hagerty tells the story of a group of young friends in the USA who are struggling to make the transition from cubicle-working consumers into beings who are truly human. An audio book for the tribe. 12|5|09 |
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Four ways we may, or may not, evolve. 12|01|09 |
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New research suggests that oxytocin underlies the twin emotional pillars of civilized life, our capacity to feel empathy and trust. 11|28|09 |
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Sleep research suggests that dreaming is a parallel state of consciousness, continually running but normally suppressed during waking. This is supported by research on lucid dreaming, having elements of both rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep and of waking. 11|24|09 |
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The term informavore characterizes an organism that consumes information. It is meant to be a description of human behavior in modern information society, in comparison to omnivore, as a description of humans consuming food. A talk with Frank Schirrmacher. 11|17|09 |
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Having a father help with the child-rearing is important. Having a mother back him is more important. 11|13|09 |
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Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart. 11|13|09 |
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Empowering young women through education will help reduce overpopulation in areas that cannot support it and avoid extremism in the children they raise. 11|9|09 |
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Although being is shared by all humans of all cultures and all eras, and by all living creatures, being as an aspect of our human condition and potential is not celebrated in modern Western culture. One way to illustrate the experience of being in an alternative, magical way, is to recall being in love. A contribution by Xander Stone. 11|9|09 |
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"Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better" is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers. Few people actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator by making it fun to do? 11|5|09 |
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How your brain creates the fourth dimension. 10|29|09 |
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People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor. An article by George Monbiot. 10|13|09 |
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Although two dogs can look very different, the human brain recognizes them as particular instances of the concept of a dog. 10|9|09 |
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A talk given by renowned linguist and research psychologist Steven Pinker – text and video. 10|5|09 |
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Why is love such a stimulating emotion? Why does the act of falling in love – or at least thinking about love – lead to such a spur of creative productivity? A new study demonstrates that thinking about love – but not about sex – causes us to think more "globally," making it easier to come up with new ideas. 10|5|09 |
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A new experiment challenges a 1983 experiment that found that volunteers' movements were preceded by a "readiness potential," suggesting that unconscious neural processes determine our actions before we are ever aware of making a decision. 10|1|09 |
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Modern science already offers ways to enhance your mood, sex drive, athletic performance, concentration levels and overall health. But is such medically driven self-improvement always a good idea? Nick Bostrom believes it's time to open the ethical debate surrounding human enhancement. 9|24|09 |
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Exposure to information that does not make sense, such as surrealistic literature, enhances adaptive cognitive mechanisms like finding patterns and finding structure. 9|24|09 |
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Antero Alli is most known for his performance works using Paratheatre processes, and experimental video documents and feature fiction films. In this interview, he discusses the Eight-Circuit Brain model of consciousness, dream ritual, media overdose, and the resuscitation of the imagination as the key to empowerment. 9|21|09 |
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The secrets of the centenarians. Far from gaining a longer burden of disability, their extra years are often healthy ones. 9|13|09 |
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Jonah Lehrer chats with Alison Gopnik about why babies might be more conscious than adults, the benefits of having an imaginary friend and why play, not necessity, is the mother of invention. 9|9|09 |
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Findings suggest the experience of moving our eyes occurs before our eyes actually move. 9|1|09 |
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Male Australian bowerbirds with the best problem-solving capabilities also mated the most often. 9|9|09 |
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A new study looks at what happens when a language doesn't have words for numbers. 9|9|09 |
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Mom was right. That "sinking feeling in the tummy" helps after all, researchers concluded. 9|1|09 |
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As much as we humans like to think we can do two things at once, our brains can only process one thing at a time – like the iPhone – but we can get better at switching between the two tasks. 8|1|09 |
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How humans could end war; an article by John Hogan. 7|28|09 |
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New research explains music's power over human emotions and its benefits to our mental and physical well-being. 7|24|09 |
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Our brain operates on the edge of chaos. Though much of the time it runs in an orderly and stable way, every now and again it suddenly and unpredictably lurches into a blizzard of noise. 7|15|09 |
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The rate of biological evolution in humans is about a bit a year, compared to 50,000 new books published in the English language each year, containing on the order of a hundred billion bits of information, Stephen Hawking says. This means we are now entering a new phase of evolution – "self designed evolution" – in which we will be able to change and improve our DNA, and during the next century, discover how to "modify both intelligence and instincts like aggression." 7|15|09 |
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Richard Feynman on doubt, uncertainty and religion. 6|10|09 |
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There is enough space in the world to produce the extra food needed to feed a growing population. And contrary to expectation, most of it can be grown in Africa. 7|6|09 |
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Timothy Leary indirectly turned millions of people on to LSD, but his central contribution was his Eight-Circuit Brain model for Intelligence Increase, a user-friendly grid designed for anyone exploring higher consciousness as a means not merely to get high, but for designing and creating new contexts for their lives. An article by Antero Alli. 7|6|09 |
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Neuroscientists have, for the first time, been able to demonstrate that moderate exercise significantly increases the number of neural stem cells in the ageing brain. 7|1|09 |
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End of the World or Consciousness Revolution? An article by Stanislav Grof, being his paper at the 2012 conference last May in Fort Collins, Colorado. 6|27|09 ; |
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In the last few years, four surprising advances have renewed confidence that a terrestrial explanation for life's origins will eventually emerge. 6|23|09 |
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Human laughter is most similar to that of chimps and bonobos, the two apes most closely related to us. 6|23|09 |
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Much of the search for life outside of Earth's biological oasis has focused on examining the conditions on the other planets in our solar system and probing the cosmos for other Earth-like planets in distant planetary systems. But one team of astronomers is approaching the question of life elsewhere in the universe by looking for life's potential beginning. 6|23|09 |
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The division of labor by the two cerebral hemispheres – once thought to be uniquely human – predates us by half a billion years. 6|10|09 |
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Emotions are represented by distinct spatial signatures in the brain that can be detected with fMRI, according to University of Geneva scientists. 5|28|09 |
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Real human face-to-face interaction affects everything from thinking skills to maintaining a healthy immune system. Now more than ever we need to teach and learn that real-time, real life relationships are the priority. Life is a social event, not a virtual one. A blog by Wendy Strgar. 5|9|09 |
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It's unfocused, random, and extremely good at what it does. How we can learn from a baby's brain. Jonah Lehrer explains. 5|9|09 |
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There's a growing consensus among scientists that the relationship between us and the 100 trillion bacterial microbes in our bodies (outnumbering our human cells 10 to one) is a two-way street. 5|1|09 |
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The building blocks of life may be more than merely common in the cosmos. 5|1|09 |
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Goofing around goes way back, according to a new theory that suggests society can break down when we don't take time to play. 4|24|09 |
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With a collection of frozen human brains and robots capable of processing 192 brain slices a day, the Allen Brain Institute is attempting to do the impossible: systematically map out the expression patterns of more than 20,000 genes that make our grey matter tick. 4|9|09 |
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For parents who have found themselves repeating the same warnings or directions to their toddler over and over to no avail, new research from the University of Colorado at Boulder offers them an answer as to why their toddlers don't listen to their advice: they're just storing it away for later. 4|6|09 |
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Daniel Pinchbeck proposes that humanity may be undergoing a rapid transition from the biological to the psychic phase of species evolution in the next few years. 3|21|09 |
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Being treated unfairly in a game triggers the same facial expression as stomach-turning tastes and images, a new study has found, suggesting that the brain mechanism of disgust evolved to help humans avoid not just rotten food, but also immoral behavior. 3|17|09 |
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is a feature length documentary film about the life and ideas of renowned but also highly controversial inventor, futurist, and author Ray Kurzweil. The film focuses mostly on Kurzweil’s world-wide speaking tour, as he describes a fast-approaching, radically different future in which we have merged with our computer creations, will overcome our mortality to live indefinitely, and will be billions of times more intelligent. 3|17|09 |
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French writer Max Gallo deems it necessary to apprehend the time we are living through, along with its economic and financial upheavals, in a historical perspective. He argues that the "crisis" is a real revolution in human civilization "that is erupting. And no person, no government plan, can determine its conclusion or what type of society it will produce." 2|25|09 |
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is a cross-platform application consisting of several cognitive training tasks in different variants. 2|21|09 |
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is as much a philosophy as it is a technique. The method teaches you that, in the absence of fear and tension, or special medical circumstances, severe pain does not have to be an accompaniment of labor. 1|17|09 |
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The city has always been an engine of intellectual life, from the 18th-century coffeehouses of London, where citizens gathered to discuss chemistry and radical politics, to the Left Bank bars of modern Paris, where Pablo Picasso held forth on modern art. Without the metropolis, we might not have had the great art of Shakespeare or James Joyce; even Einstein was inspired by commuter trains. And yet, city life isn't easy, according to scientists who begun to examine how the city affects the brain. 1|22|09 |
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When you make a spiritual practice of boredom, you are creating new neural pathways that allow you to relate to unpleasant stimuli in new ways. The point is to use boredom as a gateway to pure awareness. An essay and blog by Jay Michaelson. 1|17|09 |
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Meditation is no match for procrastination, laziness, and the draw of a crack-of-dawn email check. These afflictions arrest meditation and art, and have to be conquered by sheer discipline, the mark of great artists and great meditators. 1|7|09 |
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Through science we create technology and in using our new tools we recreate ourselves. But until very recently in our history, no democratic populace, no legislative body, ever indicated by choice, by vote, how this process should play out. Nobody ever voted for printing. Nobody ever voted for electricity. Nobody ever voted for radio, the telephone, the automobile, the airplane, television. Nobody ever voted for penicillin, antibiotics, the pill. Nobody ever voted for space travel, massively parallel computing, nuclear power, the personal computer, the Internet, email, cell phones, the Web, Google, cloning, sequencing the entire human genome. We are moving towards the redefinition of life, to the edge of creating life itself. While science may or may not be the only news, it is the news that stays news. 1|7|09 |
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During evolution the parts of the brain responsible for social behavior were growing and finally led to the human species. Cooperative upbringing of offspring could therefore having put into operation our incarnation, suggests a common marmosets study. 2|1|09 |
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We currently consume 130% of what the world is able to produce, and we must drastically reduce our levels of consumption. How can we accomplish such a reduction? An essay by David Ulansey. 12|22|0 |
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An essay by Cindy Sheehan, the California mother who became an anti-war leader after her son was killed in Iraq. 12|17|08 |
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Attendees at the recent Program for the Future conference at San Jose's Tech Museum of Innovation discussed ways to foster greater collective intelligence, based on Douglas Engelbart's premise that networked computers could help groups of people work together more effectively, raising the collective intelligence of the human race and making it possible to solve some of our most pressing problems, including pollution, famine, disease, and war. 12|22|08 |
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The twin epidemics of obesity and autoimmunity are symptoms of a deep infirmity in our civilization. Each condition shows us something about our society, and offers clues to how we might heal these conditions that have proven so intractable to modern medicine. An essay by Charles Eisenstein. 12|5|08 |
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The new, pervasive communications media have pushed us into what mystics have called the etheric realms. Without proper tools and preparation, we can become trapped in a maze of electronically magnified addictions and fears. We must call upon the protector archetypes as we embark on our cyber-shamanic initiation. A blog by Steven Vedro. 11|17|08 |
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Of all human activities, creativity comes closest to providing the fulfillment we all hope to get in our lives. Call it full-blast living. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals. An Essay by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. 11|9|08 |
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Googling is good for Grandpa and Grandma, says a new study by researchers at UCLA. The study, which looked at brain activity during web searches, resulted in a fascinating finding: Middle-aged to older adults who know their way around the Internet had more stimulation of decision-making and complex reasoning areas of the brain than peers who were new to web surfing. 11|1|08 |
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When the human body kicks into high gear, the brain can run on recycled, alternative energy to make the whole system more efficient. 10|17|08 |
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Let your government, the European Parliament and the world know that you support the fight against child sex exploitation and abuse in your country and abroad. Your signature is intended to let politicians in your government, the European Union and at the World Conference in Rio de Janeiro later this year hear your concern about Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children all over the world. 10|13|08 |
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All humans are forecasting the future to some degree. Just a quick search of the internet will provide dozens of forms of future forecasting. Half Past Human employ a technique based on radical linguistics to reduce extracts from readings of dynamic postings on the internet into an archetypical database. With this database of archetypical language, they calculate the rate of change of the language. The forecasts of the future are derived from these calculations. 10|6|08 |
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If human memory were truly digital, it would have just received an upgrade from something like the capacity of a floppy disk to that of a flash drive. A new study found the brain can remember a lot more than previously believed. 9|24|08 |
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In a study that at first glance seems counterintuitive, researchers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, reviewed safety studies from 17 countries and 68 cities in California and found that the more people bike in a community, the less they collide with motorists. 9|21|08 |
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By 2030, or by 2050 at the latest, will a super-smart artificial intelligence decide to keep humans around as pets? Will it instead choose to turn the entire Earth, including the messy organic bits like us, into computronium? Or is there a third alternative? These were some of the questions pondered by the 600 or so technosavants meeting at the second annual Singularity Summit. 9|17|07 |
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How was all of the "stuff" that went along with the study of magic first derived? Philip H. Farber wants to understand the nature of the gods and goddesses from books and esoteric lore that he had come to love and find a pantheon within his own life and experience. 9|12|08 |
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The teaching we need will not come from priests, gurus, shamans, or scientists. We must find our way without the individuals and organizations that duplicate the power and alienation of capitalistic culture. An article by Dave Hanson. 8|21|08 |
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Answering hard questions at the World Transhumanist conference. 8|3|07
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was established in 01996 to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today's "faster|cheaper" mind set and promote "slower|better" thinking, and to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10 000 years. 7|1|2008 |
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was founded by Egyptian architect and scientist Dr. Ibrahim Karim, after more than 30 years of research. His breakthrough research identified a unique energy effect found in the energetic centers of all living systems. The natural function of this energy effect is to provide balance, or "centering," to the different energy-qualities or effects within any living system. 8|1|08 |
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A new publication answers centuries' old questions regarding the mechanism and function of humour, identifying the reason humour is common to all human societies, its fundamental role in the evolution of homo sapiens and its continuing importance in the cognitive development of infants. 7|9|08 |
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In his new book, Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, Gary Marcus describes the brain as a clumsy collection of spare parts. Evolution tends not to optimise things; it simply tinkers with what's already there, he says. So it tends to make things better but there's no guarantee that it will make the best. "Survival of the fittest" really means fittest of the available options. Evolution can't take a step back and ask what the best option would be; it just works with what it has. And that's what leads to tinkering and ultimately the kluges. 6|24|08 |
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When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party, they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a growing number of studies suggest that this assumption is often wrong. Instead, the research finds, the aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to sift through a clutter of information, often to its long-term benefit. 5|28|08 |
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and how can we all get some. Matthieu Ricard says: We can train our minds in habits of happiness. Sometimes called the "happiest man in the world," Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, author and photographer. 5|23|08 |
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In every conflict, there are local people working for peace. Peace Direct funds their work, promotes it and learns from it. The charity was set up in 2003, winning the Best New Charity award in 2005. Peace Direct funds Champions projects in Colombia, Congo and Kashmir, Rapid Response Funds in Nepal and Kenya, and Collaborative Projects in Sudan and the UK. In the past they have given to projects in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Iraq, Somalia and Aceh. Peace Direct is also responsible for the pioneering web-based project Insight on Conflict. 5|21|08 |
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Peace
is breaking out all over. If you get your news from mainstream TV and radio, you probably haven't noticed. But here are a few startling statistics the networks have overlooked in their rush to promote the usual stories of crime, corruption, terrorism and war. 4|30|08 |
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Wendy Strgar isn't only promoting green, healthy and sexy products. She also talks about the deeper possibility that we might be willing to give up momentary happiness or the ease we expect our relationships to provide and actually commit to the work of making our relationships sustainable and lasting - perhaps with the same effort we might put into our homes, businesses and personal health. 4|28|08 |
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A website providing a concise, reliable introduction to vital information of which few are aware. Specialized in providing fact-filled news articles and concise summaries of major cover-ups which impact our lives and world. All information is taken from the most reliable sources available and can be verified using the links provided. Sources are always noted, with links direct to the information source provided when possible. 4|23|08 |
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is an ongoing register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life. It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for synthetic work. 4|16|08 |
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With nothing more than a design, amateurs can manufacture jewelry, robots, T-shirts, furniture — anything. No warehouses. No minimum orders. And no money down. The digital economy isn't just digital; the same market forces that allowed midlist musicians to make a living distributing their songs online now give amateur clothiers the chance to sell their wares without having to persuade Barney's buyers to carry them. 4|14|08 |
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The mythology of our modern, high-tech culture teaches us that the last frontier for humanity is outer space. Somehow, according to this emerging mythos, the fragile human body is supposed to be able to survive the rigors of travel in outer space over vast distances. The writers of science fiction and Star Trek-style television shows would have us believe that human beings can somehow endure every kind of radiation and danger to successfully colonize other planets and solar systems. 4|2|08
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may look funny, but it was taken very seriously by a panel at the American Academy of Religion annual conference. To a group of earnest academics who study faith, the Flying Spaghetti Monster -- the spiritual icon of a new internet-based religion -- is more than just a spicy pop-culture dish. They use words like "didactic device" to describe the beloved but carb-heavy god of Pastafarianism. They say the FSM is cloaked in a "folk-humor hybrid body," and reveals a web-fueled movement toward "open source theology" that challenges existing beliefs. 2|18|08 |
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is for people who want to feel totally good about the way they live. Using everything we know about gentle "green technology", building biology and organic food growing with permaculture the village affords a high quality lifestyle with minimal effect on the environment. Residents contribute positively to addressing global concerns like climate change and energy challenges through the very way they live. 2|7|08 |
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About two years ago, in the midst of pursuing a Masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Stella Osorojos started seeing an acupuncturist who has written a lot about sacred geometry and methods for aligning the body with the Earth's energetic grids. At the time, she didn't understand half of what he talked about, though she loved getting his needles and listening to him patter on about triangles, light frequencies, and "It's all about the heart, it's all about the heart." When he suggested that, while she meditates, she should activate a pattern of acupuncture points on her back and ask for "The Wingmaker Frequency," she didn't hesitate to comply, though she didn't know to whom she was making her supplication nor what the "wingmaker" anything was. 1|17|08 |
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All beings desire to fulfill themselves and to move toward wholeness. When the masculine Yin is underdeveloped, men in their search for wholeness might seek it outside themselves, in a female partner, or they may take on effeminate qualities themselves, or the repressed Yin might occasionally burst out in an exaggerated form. The same goes for women and their neglected or repressed Yang. But what, exactly, are these neglected masculine Yin and feminine Yang qualities? 1|7|08 |
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Jose Argüelles calls it "the climax of matter," Jean Houston refers to it as "jump time," and Ray Kurzweil names it "the approaching singularity." Each person who studies this phenomenon calls it by a different name, or uses different terms to describe it, but they are all speaking of the same idea: that human experience is reaching some kind of ultimate point. 12|7|07 |
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If you have ever observed ants marching in and out of a nest, you might have been reminded of a highway buzzing with traffic. To Iain D. Couzin, such a comparison is a cruel insult — to the ants. Americans spend a 3.7 billion hours a year in congested traffic. But you will never see ants stuck in gridlock. Army ants, which Dr. Couzin has spent much time observing in Panama, are particularly good at moving in swarms. If they have to travel over a depression in the ground, they erect bridges so that they can proceed as quickly as possible. 11|23|07 |
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Giving up sweets and avoiding vitamins could help you live longer, German researchers said. They found that restricting glucose -- a simple sugar found in foods such as sweets that is a primary source of energy for the body -- set off a process that extended the life span of some worms by up to 25 percent. The key was boosting the level of "free radicals" -- unstable molecules that can damage the body and which people often try to get rid of by consuming food or drinks rich in anti-oxidants such as
vitamine E.
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Changing to daylight savings time may give people an hour more of sunlight, but it appears that their internal body clocks never really adjusts to the change, German researchers report. 11|1|07 |
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This video of Mark Pesce’s presentation at the 2007 Mind States conference in Costa Rica explores sharing and how networks of people effectively swarm, erode, re-build and assert new positions of knowledge and prosperity. The presentation expands upon Gilmores Law; "The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Pesce relates and updates this assertion with the proliferation of new communication technologies and their emergent behaviors. 10|5|07
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In three conversations, Ravi Dykema of Nexus magazine explores the potential of our sexuality and sensuality with two trained experts in this field: David Deida and Charles Muir. They also speak with an important innovator and teacher of a Taoist perspective on sexual awakening, Saida Désilets. 9|27|07 |
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| The French capital launched a new bicycle service with more than 10,600 bikes available at 750 stations all over the city. 8|11|07 |
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Poodwaddle is constantly creating new Flash programs, most of which are offered free to anyone. You may link to them or load them onto your own website, blog, or even your myspace page. Check out our free clocks and other free gadgets. 7|17|07 |
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When we know others feel the same way we do, we are stronger. Meet with friends and contacts on the top of a favourite hill for part or the whole of the night of Saturday, 25 August 2007. Hope, truth and dignity for the world. 7|15|07 |
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Green homes? Organic food? Nature is good? Time to give the ol' tie-dyers some respect. 5|29|07 |
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The business of the future will see much of the intellectual work being done by intelligent machines - and only people with good interpersonal skills will do well. This is the prediction of BT futurologist Ian Pearson, who believes women will do especially well by providing the emotional skills machines won't be able to master. 5|9|07 |
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exists in order to serve the task of human integration at every level of the world system in order to ensure species survival and to optimise the quality of life within the sustainable limits of our holding environment. (3/27/07) |
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is an international team of educators developing curricula and courses on Development for Sustainable Urban and Rural Settlements. (3/21/07) |
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James Gardner's Selfish Biocosm hypothesis is a fascinating and poetic synthesis of current ideas on the emergence of our bio-friendly cosmos and its destiny: it envisions a novel perspective on humankind's role in the universe. (3/21/07)
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is a multi-user collaborative weblog covering all aspects of modern drug culture. From meth labs to rave culture to recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and pharmaceutical research, DoseNation provides daily critical and satirical commentary on the way human culture interacts with drugs and altered mind states. (3/17/07)
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