Check out some of these topics and links to more clues. Immortality, Neurologic, Space Migration emerged in the early 1970’s and morphed into Life Extension ( life_X) , intelligence increase, and local Space Stations. We still need back-up mini biospheres of the biosphere! Gaia! Gaea! Later these morphed into
SMI2LE. Early Bible stories of communicating with [...]
Freeman Dyson says
When we put together the evidence from the wiggles and the distribution of vegetation over the earth, it turns out that about 8 percent of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is absorbed by vegetation and returned to the atmosphere every year. This means that the average lifetime of a molecule of carbon [...]
From BoingBoing.net
Original Post by David Pescovitz, June 23, 2008 11:03 AM
George Lakoff is well known as a cognitive linguist who looks at how language affects culture, specifically how much the metaphors we use impact the way we think. During the last presidential election, he grabbed a lot of attention with his [...]
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Along with a host of other literary, artistic and scientific luminaries of the period, novelist Anais Nin was one of the new wonder- drug’s early guinea-pigs. At the dawn of the psychedelic sixties, she saw herself as part of a larger social organism that was liquefying; opening like a sea-anenemone to countless [...]
very cool online database
A databrowser for exploring:
Where are oil & gas produced?
Where are oil & gas consumed?
How has this changed?
http://mazamascience.com/OilExport/index.html
http://mazamascience.com/OilExport/index.html
from Skeptics Society
Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason & Religion
SPECIAL Event Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Location: Baxter Lecture Hall
Speaker: Dr. Stuart Kauffman
Tickets: First come first served at the door. Sorry, no advance ticket sales for this lecture. Seating is limited. $8 Skeptics Society members & Caltech/JPL Community; $10 General [...]
From BoingBoing.net
“My new book, Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights, is just out (May 10). The idea for Arts, Inc. hit me when I was chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, during Bill Clinton’s administration. I became convinced that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, copyright extension, and Clear-Channel-style [...]
Amazing! Walter Ong surfaces! One of McLuhan’s major Mentors!
The Ninth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
2008 Call for Awards Nominations
Communication, Technology and the Sacred
Santa Clara, California
June 19-22, 2008
Convention Coordinators:
Paul Soukup, S.J. (Psoukup at scu.edu) Santa Clara University
Anne Pym, Ph.D. (anne.pym at csueastbay.edu) Cal state University East Bay
If, as Walter Ong suggests, technologies of communication [...]
