feed your brain in the office
Hallucinating without psychedelics. Rise of the cyborgs: human speciation continued. And a look at the neural prosthetics which will bring us there. More on neuroprosthetics and more on human speciation. Helping yourself be disciplined enough to sit down and write. Fill in the ingredients you have and get recipe suggestions. Or do it here.
Labels: hallucination, neuroprosthetics, recipes, speciation, writing
Who decides what you buy? On the forefront of coastal defence; the Netherlands are preparing for rising sea levels. What is the real story behind the Somalian pirates? Will we be seeing buckypaper in everyday life? Two small German children set off to Africa to get married. Video lectures from top universities.
Labels: Africa, buckypaper, children, Germany, lectures, Netherlands, pirates, psychology, sea, shopping, Somalia, water
The exhilarating world of underwhelming theme parks. The meeting of two idiots savants, Daniel Tammet and Kim Peek. Multiple Personality Syndrome or is it hysteria? What a simple checklist did for a world of highly trained professionals. “I will start with meats, fish, eggs, soups and sauces, sandwiches, vegetables, desserts, and also what to do in case of a hydrogen or cobalt bomb attack." Interviews with animator Don Hertzfeldt. Can video games mature beyond mere entertainment?
Labels: checklist, herter, hertzfeldt, hospital, hysteria, idiot savant, intelligence, interviews, medicine, mps, peek, synesthesia, tammet, theme parks, video games
Messing with Wikipedia. Experiences change the physical make-up of your brain. A bit of fools and idiocy. The very real developments in laser weaponry.
How to bring out the genius in children. Regular people who inadvertently changed (many images) the world. Ugly American elections are not a new phenomenon (many images). Fish as a currency in prisons. An incredible (geek) story on real life Tron emerging in a simple program. Interview with Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc.) about technology and more. A letter supposedly written by Jack the Ripper. Down with the degree. Nightclubs are pure hell.
Labels: education, election, games, genius, interview, jack the ripper, neal stephenson, polgar, prison
In the unlikely event that we manage to program machines to improve themselves, they will cumulatively reinforce their own ability to improve themselves. A bird that impales insects on branches for later snacking. Urban planning for a better world. A solution to the many evils of sprawl. Making museums more appealing by immersing people in the reality of history.
Labels: AI, bird, history, insects, museums, pedestrianism, singularity, sprawl, technology, urban planning
Fun-filled distraction for concentration camp staff (pdf). Far-reaching influence of breakfast cereal. "We need to consider that [Osama] bin Laden in launching 9/11, he and his compatriots may have anticipated, and indeed invited American intervention, wishing to draw them into their territory and defeat them like they did with the Soviets", says Afghanistan expert Dan Plasch. Which is exactly what Bin Laden said in 1996 in an interview with then-journalist Abdul Bari Atwan (video).
