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Life

Dawkins Defends Darwin

Sue Dougherty

A hundred and fifty years after the publication of  Darwin's Origin of Species, evolution is still a hotly-debated topic in America.  This fall, biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins offers evidence that evolution is true in his new book, The Greatest Show on Earth. (more)

10-16-09

Psyche

Evolutionary Biology Symposium At Entheon Village

Michael Garfield

At this year's Burning Man, four evolutionary biologists came together to discuss the deeper issues of evolution:  Does it have a direction?  Can we use it to inform social action?  What form will it take if medicine conquers aging?  An inspired discussion on the nature of our changing reality... (more)

10-14-09

Commons

Let A Hundred Futures Bloom: A "Both/And" Survey Of Transhumanist Speculation

Michael Garfield

When I am in the mood for some armchair futurism, I like to remember the old Chinese adage: “Let a hundred flowers bloom.” Why do we think it will be one way or the other? The future arrives by many roads.  Courtesy of some of science fiction’s finest speculative minds, here are a few of my favorites... (more)
10-9-09

Tech

Hubble's Cosmic Reawakening

Bill Machon

NASA has released stunning new images from the repaired and revitalized Hubble telescope.

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9-15-09

Psyche

Pinchbeck and Dharmanidhi: Bridging the Divide

Henry Most

Last week, I attended the Psychedelics and Spirituality debate between Daniel Pinchbeck and Dharmanidhi. Putting aside the issue of psychedelics, what was more intriguing to me was that there seemed a persistent gap in their conceptions of evolution and change. Given their shared emphasis on doing good and maximum benefit, how then do we reconcile the divergence? (more)

8-11-09

Psyche

The Atmosphere of Heaven

Erik Davis

What is it like to take a drug before it is "a drug"? In the late eighteenth century, members of the Pneumatic Institution, an outpost of British medical exploration, pursued the nature of consciousness by sucking down bags of nitrous oxide and concluded that "Nothing exists but thoughts!" (more)

7-27-09

Psyche

The Devil Made You Do It. Again

Lisa Kirchner

As part of a weeklong series of events, the second annual World Science Festival in New York brought in a Nobel Laureate to moderate a panel that included a neuroscientist, a philosopher, and a psychologist to take on one of the most vexing questions of all time -- do humans have free will? (more)

6-25-09

Psyche

The Sojourn of Science

Charles Eisenstein

Science has brought us to a place where we can walk in living awe of the ongoing miracle that is the world. Perhaps the true purpose of science is to apprehend new realms of the awesome. (more)

4-16-09

Tech

Don't Fight Forces, Use Them! : The Integrity of Tension in Science and Architecture

Renee Verdier

What do Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes and the human body have in common? Both speak to the ingenuity of self-assembling structures and their methods of maintaining stability; when you use forces, you don't need to fight them. (more)

4-13-09

Psyche

The Future is Immanent: Speculations on a Possible World

J.F. Martel

God is dead, long live the Alien. Faith in something that has passed (Jesus, Mohammed) has been replaced by hope for something to come. However, this something comes not to replace our reality (earthly paradise) but to expand it (interstellar civilization). The Other is a possible world. (more)

3-2-09

Psyche

What Gorilla?: Why Some Can't See Psychic Phenomena

Dean Radin

Because of blind spots, some common aspects of human experience literally cannot be seen by those embedded within the Western scientific worldview. It excludes phenomena such as telepathy and clairvoyance that suggest we are deeply interconnected in ways that transcend our everyday notions of space and time. (more)

8-1-08

Arts

Talking Trees

Morgan Maher

The Tree Listening Installation lets people hear water being pulled up from the roots to the leaves of any tree. (more)

5-22-08

Arts

Lights, Camera, Magic

Chris Otchy

An exhibition at Frankfurter Kunstverein begs the question -- can art and magic galvanize social change? (more)

5-20-08

Arts

Sex with Insects

ST Frequency

In Green Porno, a short film series from the Sundance Channel, actress Isabella Rossellini explores the bizarre rituals of copulating bugs. (more)

5-13-08

Arts

Stop. Hey. What's That Sound?

Ken Jordan

In the mind, sound is not so neatly sectioned off from space, touch, words, or image. One bleeds into the next, slipping and sliding in a spiral of associations. Digital media has already begun to reflect qualities of consciousness that had been beyond the means of artists to capture. In coming years, this will only accelerate. (more)

5-2-08

Arts

The Brain on Jazz

Bill Machon

New scientific findings shed light on the fascinating neurological effects of jazz on the human brain. (more)

3-28-08

Psyche

A State of Belief is a State of Being

Charles Eisenstein

The distance between the Skeptical mindset and the believing mindset can represent a choice between suspicion and trust, cynicism or sincerity. (more)

12-19-07

Arts

Magnetic Field Music

Bill Machon

A blind geophysicist reveals the history of Earth's magnetic field reversals through a curious sound interpretation.

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12-14-07

Arts

Clandestine Clockwork

Morgan Maher

Members of an underground cultural guerrilla movement secretly repaired the Parisian Panthéon's long dead clock. (more)

12-4-07

Arts

Through the Looking Glass

Erin Shaw

Sabine Melchior- Bonnet's book, The Mirror, traces the looking glass' influence on the development of self- consciousness throughout the ages. (more)

11-20-07

Psyche

Psychoactive Vibes

Michael Garfield

Explore humanity’s unfolding understanding of the relationship between physical waves and states of consciousness. (more)

10-29-07

Psyche

Tin Horns, Flies & . . . Tadpoles

Kevin Dann

[Daemonic Dispatches] • Professor V. S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at UC San Diego, is one of the most visible neuroscientists proclaiming and popularizing the notion that there is an imminent revolution in the understanding of the human brain. His own recent work has focused on such mysterious neurological anomalies as phantom limbs, synaesthesia, and Capgras delusion, a condition in which family and friends are experienced as strangers. Attention to anomalies is at the heart of the Fortean endeavor. Yet there is much in Dr. Ramachandran’s science that obscures rather than illuminates. (more)

5-22-07