May 2009
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Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the...
“Many highly educated and intelligent individuals experience a powerful sense that there are patterns, forces, energies and entities operating in the world,” Hood explains. “More important, such experiences are not substantiated by a body of reliable evidence, which is why they are supernatural and unscientific. The inclination or sense that they may be real is our supersense.” We are...
5 Days Without Sleep?? Amateur...
via youtube.com Not two weeks ago, I pumped out a grad-school final on less (…granted, it wasn’t very good. But still…). I bet he even nourished himself more frequently than every other day! Geez, where do they find these people????? ‘×,post’d ÷ rubbd | Comment »
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A Softer World
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New Android Hybrild is Unleashed
And yeah, It’s sweet: iPhanboiz get iPwned. (at the hands of “Rosie Cupcakes” no less!) ‘×,post’d ÷ rubbd | Comment »
What Is Wrong With Our Thoughts?
From an Enlightenment or Positivist point of view, which is Hume’s point of view, and mine, there is simply no avoiding the conclusion that the human race is mad. There are scarcely any human beings who do not have some lunatic beliefs or other to which they attach great importance. People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so...
10 things you didn't know about orgasm
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The Rise of the Black Hipster
via theroot.com Say what you will about the blipsters and their crazy tastes—but we should have seen it coming. Black folks have had plenty of role models when it comes to edgy style. Dwayne Wayne, a character on A Different World and one of the earliest templates for today’s blipsters, wore flip-up sunglasses without irony. Black rockers like Prince laid the track for musicians such as...
“According to YouTube, the hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute has...”
– YouTube is Huge and About to Get Even Bigger (via feedly)
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Mixed Feelings
Arnoldussen handed me a pair of blacked-out glasses with a tiny camera attached to the bridge. The camera was cabled to a laptop that would relay images to the mouthpiece. The look was pretty geeky, but the folks at the lab were used to it. She turned it on. Nothing happened. “Those buttons on the box?” she said. “They’re like the volume controls for the image. You...
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Dead Waves : The Body, Media,...
“The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle by artist Jonathan Schipper is a...”
– Slow Inevitable Death (via feedly)
“The ability to interpret other peoples’ emotions is vital for social...”
– Decoding the brain’s response to vocal emotions [Neurophilosophy] (via feedly)
"The Wire" creator David Simon Stuns Real Time...
via youtube.com You can almost see the dark fluff of ‘Duh’ swelling to fill their talking-pointy heads. And just barely hear the audience squirming in their seats, panicking in awkward anticipation of their next uproarious gotcha! cue for applause. Ah, I do love TV moments like these…. ‘×,post’d ÷ rubbd | Comment »
A catechism for a system that endures | Samuel...
Capitalism is not a system that some government decided to install, as the Soviet leaders did with “socialism”. It evolved over many years. Once established, governments of many different stripes could try to copy it, with widely varying results. There has been a long cycle among opponents, who begin by declaring it immoral, go on to predict its inevitable collapse and, when that does not happen,...
“Popularity is a fickle thing. Styles, products, social movements and people can...”
– Baby names suggest that cultural trends are abandoned more readily the quicker they catch on [Not Exactly Rocket Science] (via feedly)
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Ukraine: opening of secret archives shines light...
It was easy to end the economic totalitarianism after 1991,” he says. “It’s much harder to end totalitarianism in people’s heads.” Professor Kulchytsky, on the legacy of the USSR in Ukraine, via Christian Science Monitor ‘×,post’d ÷ rubbd | Comment »
Super Slow-Motion Camera Catches a Wave
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Propagandists Want to Gently Re-Direct Your...
Facilitating such dialogue is also an invaluable source of recruiting opinion-leaders into action. Though the use of opinion leaders and influentials are widespread today in marketing, politics, and health campaigns, they have only recently started to be applied to climate change. A recent paper I published reviews the 60 years of research in this area and outlines key ways that opinion leaders...
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“Nostalgia - it’s delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, “nostalgia”...”
– Don Draper | Mad Men: “The Wheel” ‘o, suicideblonde
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SuperNews! Ep. 6 "We've Been Tea-Bagged!"
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Lumi
via youtube.com Music video for Vladislav Delay (www.vladislavdelay.com) directed by Timothy Jaeger (www.timjaeger.com). The track is ‘Lumi’, from the recent album ‘Whistleblower’, released late in 2007. The video was made entirely using Cinema4d, After Effects, and Photoshop. It conveys a dark, surreal psychological landscape where birds morph into jet planes and...
Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The...
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Science, Society and The Merchants of Light
A conversation between Roger Bingham and Richard Dawkins, AC Grayling, Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss and Steven Pinker April 5, 2009 via thesciencenetwork.org ‘×,post’d ÷ rubbd | Comment »
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