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Category Archives: From The Field

Media Maven Robert Logan’s new $45 book out The Extended Mind!

Logan’s jammed web site for all the free stuff

new media aggregator site with amazing network graphs of tags

Silo Breaker uses tags from this story 
News You Might Have Missed: Court Confirms President’s Dictatorial Powers 
to generate 
Amazing networking news animated 6 degrees effects!
 

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Immortality, Life Extension, Life_X, anti-aging, ongoing conference UCLA

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 on Carbon and Global Warming

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 [...]

Psychological Psychedelia by Delphi from downunder and the antipodes of S. Africa

from
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 [...]

Energy Export Database

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

ReInventing the sacred, again! Stuart Kauffman speaks 7PM, 26 June, Thur., 2008

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 [...]

Arts, Inc: how the DMCA, Clear Channel and copyright extension are killing culture

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 [...]

Media Ecology Convention at Santa Clara, CA, 19-22 June, 2008

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 [...]

JLL writes on Tantra over at metahistory

JLL
Full-body Kundalini
I will begin by saying that I consider the Tantra of my predilection to be integral with Gaian shamanism. This is the telestic shamanism of the Mysteries, aimed at direct communication with Gaia, whose body is the planet earth. Gaia-Sophia, to give her full name, is the matrix of supersensory emotive intelligence that [...]

NYTimes covers “New Survivalism” in “Fashion & Style” section?

media trying to induce some kind of panic?  Steve Quayle on  CoastToCoastAm radio is in extreme panic mode….The more Gloom & Doom is promoted the more unlikely it can ever happen. Predicting the future has a dismal success record! 
April 6, 2008
Duck and Cover: It’s the New Survivalism

By ALEX WILLIAMS

 
THE traditional face of survivalism is [...]

IRC interview with Douglas Rushkoff, Tuesday, April 15th, 8PM ET

media maven out of NYC  Join us tomorrow at 8PM Eastern as we hold a live discussion with author, teacher, and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff in the #boingboing IRC channel, to talk about some of the work he’s doing to move his studies in a “‘new’ direction,” to focus less on the tech/media sphere and towards the nature of [...]

Squares & Cubicles (Guest Post By Amber)

http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=squares

http://images.google.com/images?q=cubicles
see also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Establishment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformity

Six Degrees of Separation/Connection may be in trouble. Why can’t 6/degrees find Osama bin laden?

Six Degrees has problems
ScienceFriday.com’s version
Chances are you’ve heard of the ’small world’ idea of six degrees of separation. But is it correct?
The idea traces back to an experiment begun in 1967 by Stanley Milgram, in which he tried to trace how many acquaintances it would take to pass a letter between two randomly selected people. [...]

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