Cracked has published an ingenious list of well meaning (but misguided) futuristic video game control interfaces.
Meanwhile, Canadian Jedis, using legitimate mind-machine interfacing technology, have briefly taken over the lights of the CN Tower in Toronto.
You know what they say, “If you like New York, you won’t be wholly displeased with some elements of Toronto.”
With ‘09 and “thee oh’s” officially over, reflections of the past 10 years in music have been rapidly appearing from different sources of the qualified nature.
Here’s the source for round two in this geeked out venture, from ResidentAdvisor.net, one of the Internet’s leading news, podcasts, and overall everything dank electronica sites.
Find their Top 100 Albums of the past decade by CLICKING HERE.
(Also quite intriguing on this page near the bottom, you will find links for the Top 50 Mixes and Top 100 Tracks of the decade as well. Opinions of the well listened ear = goodness.)
Intelligent people are statistically significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history. Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but not women), preference for sexual exclusivity correlate with higher intelligence, a new study finds.
You’ll need a shaker of salt to go with this unbalanced meal.
From the BBC’s “The Secret Life of Chaos“.
Flyfire is project initiated by the SENSEable City Laboratory in collaboration with ARES Lab (Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory), both departments of the MIT. The project uses tiny LED helicopters that act as individual pixels to form a transmogrifiable 3D display surface. The goal is to transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive and interactive display environment.
In its first implementation, the Flyfire project sets out to explore the capabilities of this display system by using a large number of self-organizing micro helicopters. Each helicopter contains small LEDs and acts as a smart pixel. Through precisely controlled movements, the helicopters perform elaborate and synchronized motions and form an elastic display surface for any desired scenario.
With the self-stabilizing and precise controlling technology from the ARES Lab, the motion of the pixels is adaptable in real time. The Flyfire canvas can transform itself from one shape to another or morph a two-dimensional photographic image into an articulated shape. The pixels are physically engaged in transitioning images from one state to another, which allows the Flyfire canvas to demonstrate a spatially animated viewing experience.
Flyfire serves as an initial step to explore and imagine the possibilities of this free-form display: a swarm of pixels in a space.
Extra-terrestrial life may already exist in the shadow biosphere.
What the hell is a shadow biosphere?
It is the vast possibility of life that is composed of elements that are so far unknown to conventional biochemistry. This includes organisms that may be based only on RNA and use alternate amino acids, organisms composed of dark energy/matter, organisms that inhabit unviewable regions of the electro-magnetic spectrum and potentially organisms that are too small or too large to observe (sub-nanobacteria, mineral intelligence, or extra-planetary consciousness).
Closer to consensus reality the shadow-biosphere includes extremeophiles, life that can live in terrestrial toxic environments (photos) like Mono Lake, CA or the cosmic radiation of the vacuum of space (mushroom spores!).
This has launched a “mission to Earth” in which scientists are looking for the origins of life on Earth by finding organisms that can live beyond the reaches of our world.
Not only could alternative forms of life be living on our planet unobserved – life may also exist in the multiverse – or at least some multiverses.
As far as oversimplified-combined-fringe-theory goes, I’d say the shadow-biosphere delightfully brings together extraterrestrial life, panspermia, ghosts, mineral and planetary intelligence, and space traveling mushroom consciousness transferal all into one neat little package.
Class dismissed!
Too much? Don’t think. Work on your prescience.
Placebos are becoming stronger.
In a review of recent research, international experts say there is increasing evidence that fake treatments, or placebos, have an actual biological effect in the body.
The doctor-patient relationship, plus the expectation of recovery, may sometimes be enough to change a patient’s brain, body and behavior, experts write.
“It’s not that placebos or inert substances help,” said Linda Blair, a Bath-based psychologist and spokeswoman for the British Psychological Society. “It’s that people’s belief in inert substances help.”
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Britain, Parliament is trying to cut national funding for homeopathy.
Either way, there’s a huge market for reality-bending medicine so git yer keister to the desert and start juicing ‘em snakes!
Master Shaman Jose Vargas describes his telepathic communications with alien beings in another dimension where time moves more slowly.
via Reality Sandwich
From Adam Curtis – director of “The Century of Self”.
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