Saturday, September 20, 2008
It’s great to see people taking the issues and statements the candidates have made seriously. Andrew Allemann of DomainNameWire.com took the time to track down the Obama and McCain policy statements and put together some hard questions for each of them.
From DifficultDebate.com
The 2008 election for President of the United States has nothing to do with [...]
Saturday, September 20, 2008
From WorldChanging.com
this article was written by Jeremy Faludi in June 2007. We’re republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.
Google Transit was already the best thing that ever happened to online public transit trip planning, and now it’s grown to a whole new level. Even better, it’s starting to be incorporated into the [...]
Saturday, September 20, 2008
From WorldChanging.com
This article was written by Micki Krimmel in June 2007. We’re republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.
I first learned about MAPLight.org at the recent NetSquared Conference. As I wrote last week, the conference attendees chose MAPLight as the winner of the first prize NetSquared Innovation Award. In a crowd [...]
This from Berkman Center For Internet & Society New Media analyst, Hal Roberts. Fascinating blog post on using Google’s new Insights For Search tool to extract, well… insights.
Digital Cameras v. Nigeria
One of my guiding theories of the modern media / advertising landscape is that the extensive real time surveillance of consumers by online advertisers and [...]
From ScienceBlogs.com
1960s documentary: Self-experimenting with magic mushrooms
Originally Posted on: July 17, 2008 10:11 AM, by Mo
In the January 4th, 1961 episode of One Step Beyond, director and presenter John Newland ingests psilocybin under laboratory conditions, to investigate whether or not the hallucinogenic mushroom can enhance his abilities of extra-sensory perception.
The programme was apparently inspired by [...]
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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 [...]
… the bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Daniel Kahneman KNOWS that the first thought that entered your head was $.10–even if you’re a Computer Science major at MIT. But that’s the wrong answer.
Daniel Gilbert’s “Stumbling On Happiness” led me to Nicholas Taleb’s “Fooled By Randomness“. Both [...]
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Portrait by Alex Grey
High Quality (64MB) mp3 46 minutes.
Download “Transmitter/Receiver” Albert Hofmann at the UCSB Psychedelics Conference ll, 1983.
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If you want to be a dentist, it’s rational to assume that if you go to school, get your degree, and set up a dental practice, you will be able to attain a comfortable standard of living. You may be able to project your probable income range with some degree of accuracy.
But if you want [...]
A lot of noise on the internet today around a recently published article in a new journal called Time and Mind by cognitive psychology professor Benny Shanon on the subject of Moses and Entheogens.
Abstract:
A speculative hypothesis is presented according to which the ancient Israelite religion was associated with the use of entheogens (mind-altering plants used [...]
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Fun, Bob-meets-Discordia web magazine Anxiety Culture. Great graphics too.
The cliché, “never put off until tomorrow..”, can be reversed for [...]
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Mind Hacks is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment workings of our brain with a view to understanding ourselves a little better and learning a little more, in a very real sense, about what makes us tick. It’s by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb, and published by O’Reilly.
And from the Mind Hacks Blog: [...]
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
TV Ontario produces a lecture format show featuring heavy thinkers. You can subscribe here. I’m posting links to a particular show I found especially illuminating on the subject of micro-financing and a new
I’ve mentioned this before, but these lectures are just SO GOOD I think it worth repeating.
http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/
And check out what’s coming up.
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Dec. 14 (Friday) - Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais, “The Edge of Art”
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Jan. 11 (Friday) - Paul Saffo, “Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting”
Feb. 4 (MONDAY) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, “The Future [...]
