Memory experts show sleeping rats may have visual dreams - MIT News Office
"...neurons activated when the animal experiences an event while awake
reactivated during sleep."
To understand the Universe we must start from the here and now.
"Quantum mechanics forbids a single history."
Thomas Hertog
CERN, Geneva
Rumi - Selections of his poetry from Allspirit
my beloved grows
right out of my own heart
how much more union can there be
HPCR
"Human security - a complement to state-centric security models with a focus on individual and community needs as an important guarantor for sustainable peace and stability."
Hans Rosling on TED Talks
"Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder..."
Rosling:"The improvement of the world must be highly contextualized..."
Nicola Hicks
"When...really working..It becomes clear, pure thought that is flowing out of me through my hands and into the work..."
pg. 72, Nicola Hicks, Momentum, GB, 1999
Helen Fisher
"...research on the evolution and
future of human sex, love and marriage and gender differences in the brain
and behavior."
50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn't Know This Time Last Year) 2006 Edition
#32. Just 30 minutes of continuous kissing can diminish the body's allergic reaction to pollen, relaxing the body and reducing production of histamine, a chemical cell given out in response to allergens.
HHMI News: Neuron's "Hardware Store" Discovered
"...building materials that nerve cells use to construct new connections during learning..sac-like organelles called endosomes..."
What Is an Event?
"...with Leibniz the question surges forth in philosophy that will continue to haunt Whitehead and Bergson: not how to attain eternity, but in what conditions does the objective world allow for a subjective production of novelty, that is, of creation? The best of all worlds had no other meaning: it was neither the least abominable nor the least ugly, but the one whose All granted a production of novelty, a liberation of true quanta of "private" subjectivity, even at the cost of the removal of the damned. The best of all worlds is not the one that reproduces the eternal, but the one in which new creations are produced, the one endowed with a capacity for innovation or creativity: a teleological conversion of philosophy."
Gilles Deleuze, The Fold, Leibniz and the Baroque, translated by Tom Conley, the University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
location one | in the sky, by leesa and nicole abahuni
"an exploration into the sharing of the senses"
Mission Statement of BLTC Research
"BLTC RESEARCH was founded in 1995 to promote paradise-engineering. We are dedicated to an ambitious global technology project. BLTC seek to abolish the biological substrates of suffering. Not just in humans, but in all sentient life."
Song of Songs 2 / Hebrew - English Bible / Mechon-Mamre
טז דּוֹדִי לִי וַאֲנִי לוֹ, הָרֹעֶה בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּים. 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his, that feedeth among the lilies.
HUMUMENT.COM - The Official Site of A HUMUMENT by Tom Phillips
"A HUMUMENT is a treated book by British artist Tom Phillips
based on the Victorian novel 'A Human Document' by W.H. Mallock."
"A HUMUMENT is a treated book by British artist Tom Phillips
based on the Victorian novel 'A Human Document' by W.H. Mallock."
La Chambre Blanche-- les rapprochements
Rachel Echenberg
"Je place l’image de mon corps dans le « non-espace » derrière l’écran. Vous, vous vous déplacez dans l’œuvre à partir de votre propre environnement...."
NeurobiologyA channel sets the gain on pain : Article : Nature
"Cox et al.1 have now discovered SCN9A mutations that cause a loss of Nav1.7 function in three families from Pakistan. Their observations link loss of Nav1.7 function with a congenital inability to experience pain..."
Nature 444, 831-832 (14 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/444831a; Published online 13 December 2006
Neurobiology: A channel sets the gain on pain
Robert Bringhurst:
"...speaking is much older and more universal than writing. It seems to me a better venue, much of the time, for the evanescent, mutable agelessness that is apt to distinguish a poem.....It makes good sense to me that a book about oral literature should be spoken before it is written, and written to be spoken, not just read."
*~
"They went to sleep .
Then he skinned the child, starting at the feet,
and crawled inside the skin.
He took the baby's place."
(p.284, Raven Travelling in "Being in Being", trans. R. Bringhurst)
Perspecta: Actuality Systems
Floating, hologram-like, interactive imagery.
IO2Technology: Heliodisplay/ Interactive Free-Space Display
A close-up of a fish under office lighting in which the Heliodisplay is concealed
into a coffee table using a customized external projection configuration.
Tate Liverpool | Jake and Dinos Chapman | Disasters of War
"Goya's series of 83 prints Disasters of War 1810-20 are the
basis for all of the works in this room. The portfolio was made
as a commentary on the Napoleonic invasion of Spain in 1808
and its aftermath, and is a damning reflection on the horrors
and atrocities of war."
The Bug 1.3
Motors - Pager motors with OTU (Over Timer Unit) gearbox.
Circuit - Two suspended bicores hooked acting as a master - slave.
Batteries - Two Ni-MH 3.6V 60mA hooked in series.
Heliotrack.com - Heliostats and solar tracking
"...solar heliostats that are guided by optical solar tracking electronics. The analog solar tracking circuit controls two mechanical actuators that move a mirror plane in two axes. The mirror plane will reflect the sun to a stationary target during the day and then return to a preset morning position after sunset. The tracking electronics are capable of tracking the sun with sub degree accuracy"
How to grow an Orangina bottle
"10 calories of oil is needed
to produce 1 calorie of food.....
2012. The ability to genetically enhance plants to grow plastics is realized."
Gecko's feet inspire super adhesive | COSMOS magazine
Linda Gregg - The Art of Finding
"I believe that poetry at its best is found rather than written...."
Robert Shields, World's Longest Diary [Transcript]: Radio Documentary by Sound Portraits
"In his diary, Robert Shields records everything he eats. He records his blood pressure and pulse at various times during the day, the temperature outside and in, every conversation he has, every piece of junk mail he receives. He sleeps no more than two hours at a time so that he can record his dreams."
Bodies in Biotechnology by Jennifer Willet: Vol 14 No 7 - 8 November 2006 - Leonardo Electronic Almanac
art will b: "....all that is wet, bloody, unruly, and animal, from mass imaginations of the biotech future..."
Image: " inthewrongplaceness " Copyright Kira O'Rielly
CTheory.net
"Machines everywhere. Desiring-machines, production-machines, abstract machines of faciality, organ-machines, energy-source machines. A fantastic density of machinic values that traverses the social field, and within which subjectivity most of all enters into a theatre of death decoded of its memories, deterritorialized of its means of reproduction, and decontextualized. "
Deleuze and Guattari: Two Meditations, Arthur Kroker, 1995
The Pinocchio Theory
"Delany has long written about the ways that “paraliterary” genres can accommodate possibilities foreclosed in more mainstream and “proper” forms of literature." --Steven Shaviro
epigenetics --Endocrinology (Journal)
"Transient exposure of a gestating female rat during the period of sex determination to the endocrine disruptor vinclozolin (ie anti-androgenic endocrine disruptor used as a fungicide in the fruit industry) induced an adult phenotype in the first F1 generation of breast tumors, prostate disease, kidney disease, immune abnormalities and premature aging. These adult onset diseases were transferred through the male germ-line to 85% of all males of all subsequent generations examined (ie F1-F4). "
In other words, pollution's effects on the body can be inherited. It's called epigenetics.
Cytowic on Synesthesia synaesthesia and the Brain
An — esthesia = “no sensation”
Syn – esthesia = “joined sensation”
HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Hubble Finds Evidence for Dark Energy in the Young Universe (11/16/2006)
"...top row of images point to the supernovae. The bottom row shows the host galaxies before or after the stars exploded. The supernovae exploded between 3.5 and 10 billion years ago."
American Civil Liberties Union -- Ghost Plane
"...Khaled El-Masri, an entirely innocent victim of rendition who was released without ever being charged."
Salon Technology | Howl.com
"I saw the best minds of my occupation destroyed by venture
capital, burned-out, paranoid, postal,
dragging themselves through the Cappuccino streets of Palo Alto
Dawn looking for an equity-sharing, stock option fix,
HTML-headed Web-sters coding for the infinite broadband
connection to that undiscovered e-commerce mother lode in the
airy reaches of IP namespace,..."
Thomas Scoville, March 22, 2000
:: jackbooks.com :: Leigh Davis
Text of Creative Writing Lecture at Auckland University (October 2005 ) (0.5MB PDF)
Literature | Futility Closet
A "bookwheel,"
designed by Italian military engineer Agostino Ramelli (1531-1600).
Edge: A TALK WITH BRIAN ENO [page 3]
Eno:....there is a deep connection between art and science:
each is a highly organized form of pretending;
of saying "let's see what would happoen if the world was like this."
Main Page - Scholarpedia
"Scholarpedia differs from Wikipedia in some very important ways:
* Each article is written by an expert (invited or elected by the public).
* Each article is anonymously peer reviewed..."
Turtles Can Fly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a 2004 film written and directed by Bahman Ghobadi.
Future by Design, a William Gazecki Film
Imagine a world where war is outdated,
there is no shortage of resources,
and every human being enjoys a high standard of living.
