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13 May 12 | Sun Joo Kim, Smart Planet In a forest north of Copenhagen, Danish architects Frederik Agdrup and Nicholas Bjorndal of Eentileen used just a computer, a printer and 820 sheets of plywood to build a 125 square meter home in four weeks.
13 May 12 | Nicoli Nattrass, New Scientist Pro-reason bloggers are doing a better job than scientists at challenging alternative medicine. Long may it continue.
9 May 12 | Sindya N. Bhanoo, New York Times Male bowerbirds cultivate plants, a new study reports, though their gardening work appears to be unintentional.
9 May 12 | David Eagleman and Raymond Tallis, Guardian Are we governed by unconscious processes? Neuroscience believes so – but isn’t the human condition more complicated than that? Two experts offer different views.
5 May 12 | Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein famously did not believe in a supernatural God, and neither do some scientists today. It now appears there may be a good reason for this.
5 May 12 | Roger Walsh, Reality Sandwich An excerpt from Spiritual Growth with Entheogens, edited by Thomas B. Roberts.
1 May 12 | Guardian Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured half a million images – in black and white. Zoltan Levay reveals how the spectacular colour pictures we know and love are assembled. Video.
27 Apr 12 | Rebecca Smith, Telegraph Having a positive attitude to life may reduce the risk of having a heart attack or stroke, a major review of research has found.
27 Apr 12 | ScienceDaily Have you ever wondered why stems grow upwards and roots downwards? Why plants always seem to turn towards the light and climbing plants run up the trellis rather than down?
27 Apr 12 | Byron Reese, h+ magazine It is easy to miss the Internet Renaissance that is happening around us. Because it grows gradually by the day, it is like the proverbial frog in the pot who doesn’t feel the water warming up around him.
21 Apr 12 | Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from 2005 through 2007. It does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data to create a simple, visceral experience.
21 Apr 12 | ScienceDaily At the molecular level, drugs like salvinorin A (the active ingredient of the hallucinogenic plant Salvia divinorum) work by activating specific proteins, known as receptors, in the brain and body.
17 Apr 12 | Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American A new computer simulation supports a long-held theory that social interactions may have triggered brain evolution in human ancestors.
17 Apr 12 | Michael Brooks, New Statesman A few years ago, Richard Dawkins tried the “God helmet”, a device that attempts to stimulate religious experience in the brain by applying a shifting magnetic field. It got him nowhere. Psilocybin might prove more enlightening.
13 Apr 12 | Jonah Lehrer, Guardian How do we have insights, and where does inspiration come from? Jonah Lehrer goes inside Bob Dylan’s brain to find out. Here’s to Lehrer’s new book Imagine.
13 Apr 12 | ScienceDaily Earlier evidence out of UCLA suggested that meditating for years thickens the brain and strengthens the connections between brain cells. Now a further report by UCLA researchers suggests yet another benefit.
9 Apr 12 | Sindya N. Bhanoo, New York Times Butterfly wings are sophisticated collectors of solar energy that help butterflies stay warm; their shinglelike structure could provide valuable clues into developing better solar technology.
9 Apr 12 | Rachel Marone, h+ magazine With all this talk of foresight strategy we have reached a point where the lines between predicting and creating the future are starting to blur. The founder of the Extreme Futurist Festival presents different futurists and their predictions.
5 Apr 12 | Wiley Online Library This article by Richard Doyle reports on a first-person healing of lifelong asthma and atopic dermatitis in the shamanic context of the contemporary Peruvian Amazon and the sometimes digital ontology of online communities.
1 Apr 12 | Matthew Pike, Positive News Deep in the heart of favela communities in the metropolis of Sao Paulo, seeds of transformation are beginning to sprout.
1 Apr 12 | Giulio Sica, Life Arts Media In order to bring about a scientific methodology of the mystical experience, we must first end the prohibitive and destructive war on drugs.
29 Mar 12 | ScienceDaily Hailed since ancient times for its medicinal properties, we still have a lot to learn about the effects of rosemary.
29 Mar 12 | Yasmin Anwar, UC Berkeley People often wonder if computers make children smarter. Scientists at the UC Berkeley are asking the reverse question: Can children make computers smarter? And the answer appears to be ‘yes.’
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