11.30.2003
Power§ of Ten (Java Applet)
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
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"The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words. And that if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish. "-- Terence McKenna - Alien Dreamtime (Track 4)
On a side note: Modern Drunkard Magazine today released it's 86 Rules of Boozing. Enjoy.
11.27.2003
A Mathematical and Philo§ophical Re-Examination of the Foundation§ of TimeWave Zero and Novelty Theory
11.26.2003
Ebb & Flow – The Fluctuating Trend§
of Habit and Novelty
of Habit and Novelty
Ebb and Flow, the process of Tension and Release, is the binary modality that governs much of our life and our daily experience. This seemingly primal process can be seen in the formation of our universe at the big bang, the formation of a human from the climax of love-making, to the cycle of breath retention and release that keeps are body vitalized with oxygen.
This primitive process is embedded in every aspect of our life and our cosmos, as a self-similar fractal comprised of a dual urge. One urge tends toward manifestation, action, and tension; simultaneously, it is mirrored by a similar urge to release, union, and dissolution. This cosmic dance of opposites is what the ancient mystics called Yin-Yang, Yab-Yum, Tao-Teh, Ob-Od, and Shiva-Shakti, to name just a few.
It is through the mastering of these two primal forces that the meta-programmer and illuminate, modern reflections of the ancient adepts and sages, finds balance, harmony, and contentment within their personal life, while the chaotic dynamic dance and interplay of the universe rushes and whirls around them.
11.22.2003
©O§ 012 BA§IC (v. 3.0) Now Available
An idea whose time has come:
An Operating System for the Human Being
11.21.2003
11.18.2003
Envi§ioning u§e§ for hallucinogen§
Long before Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey and the counterculture generation discovered hallucinogenic drugs, the Indians of western Mexico were using peyote to commune with their gods.
Anthropologist Peter T. Furst, who spent 30 years among the Huichol people, says that Indian shamans have been using hallucinogenic plants as a doorway to the divine for thousands of years, likely following a tradition carried by their ancestors over the Bering Strait.
And now, some U.S. scientists are exploring how these substances might be used by doctors to battle anxiety, mental illness and alcoholism.
"These compounds hold tremendous potential for helping us understand how the brain functions, and they have untapped potential for healing," said Charles Grob, a psychiatry professor at UCLA Medical School.....
11.15.2003
Hardwiring the global brain:
§ocial network §oftware
§ocial network §oftware
Poised to knock Friendster off of the map, Tribe.net takes the social network concept to the next level by allowing users to join or create "tribes" or subnets of people who share the same interests. In addition to the options available in Friendster, "Tribe" options include event listings, classified listings, and discussion boards.Also, check out and consider joining the (brand)new techno§hamanic tribe. [http://technoshamanic.tribe.net/]
11.13.2003
Device§ that read human thought now po§§ible
Less than a month after a widely heralded experiment showed how thought-reading implants can work in monkeys, scientists presented new findings Sunday suggesting such machines could work in people, too.
Dr. Miguel A.L. Nicolelis of Duke University said previously unreported human experiments demonstrated success with one type of a so-called brain computer interface, or BCI.
Love is just a chemical Ground-breaking work in the understanding of time Holes in space are not empty The Timewave: Today we are resonating the year 1430 Interview with RU Sirius Researchers Identify Enzyme That May Turn Fleeting Experience Into Lasting Memory
11.10.2003
'Dark Matter' Form§ Gho§t Univer§e That Mirror§ Our Own, New Theory §how§
The "dark matter" that comprises a still-undetected one-quarter of the universe is not a uniform cosmic fog, says a University of California, Berkeley, astrophysicist, but instead forms dense clumps that move about like dust motes dancing in a shaft of light.
In a paper submitted this week to Physical Review D, Chung-Pei Ma, an associate professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley, and Edmund Bertschinger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), prove that the motion of dark matter clumps can be modeled in a way similar to the Brownian motion of air-borne dust or pollen.
Their findings should provide astrophysicists with a new way to calculate the evolution of this ghost universe of dark matter and reconcile it with the observable universe, Ma said.
11.9.2003
Fal§e memorie§ have
characteri§tic brain activity
characteri§tic brain activity
A study has revealed characteristic activity in the brain that predicts whether a memory is accurate or false. The difference occurs at the time of recall, suggesting that a test for false memory might one day be possible.
11.5.2003
The Future of §tring Theory -- A Conver§ation with Brian Greene
The physicist and best-selling author demystifies the ultimate theories of space and time, the nature of genius, multiple universes, and more.
11.4.2003
Brain Map§ Perception§, Not Reality
When we experience an illusion, we usually have the impression we have been fooled, or that our minds are playing tricks on us. New research published in the Oct. 31 issue of the journal Science indicates our perceptions of these illusions are no hoax, but the result of how the brain is organized to process the information it receives from our senses
11.2.2003
The Dark Matter Flowchart
11.1.2003
Phy§ici§t propose§ deeper layer of reality
God does not play dice, but he might just as well do, a Dutch physicist is suggesting.
Returning to Einstein's nagging doubts about quantum mechanics, Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft of Utrecht University has begun to outline a way in which its apparent play of chance might be underpinned by precise physical laws that describe the way the world works.
Other physicists seem impressed by 't Hooft's creativity. "The work certainly deserves to be taken seriously," says quantum theory specialist Richard Gill.
