November 2010
3 posts
Northern Nostos
These special arthropods (stomatopods) have 16 visual pigments! We only have four, and we can see millions of colors. Their vision is hyperspectral, they can see ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths, as well as polarized light.  They have 360 degree vision and three parts of each eye can focus on the same spot, so each individual eye has trinocular vision with depth perception.  They have...
Nov 26th
Nov 24th
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
–     Robert A. Heinlein
Nov 15th
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October 2010
2 posts
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The End of Discovery
Highly important approach. The key to scientific breakthroughs lays in understanding its limitations. Also, these are the limits of the human mind which are reflected. Question is whether we would be smart enough just to become progressively smarter. This, without taking into account deeper limits of any knowledge system.Amplify’d from www.newstatesman.comDuring the recent protest march against...
Oct 19th
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Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year
The subject of this year’s top microscope photo in the 36th annual Nikon Small World competition looks more like neon suspension bridges or sailboats than what it really is: mosquito heart muscle magnified 100 times. The image, which used flourescence technology to highlight different parts of the specimen, stood out as one of the most beautiful of the entries. And it also had scientific merit...
Oct 13th
September 2010
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“Consciousness - the ultimate masculine erotic device; and it’s a...”
– Spaceweaver
Sep 29th
June 2010
1 post
“However, how are we to explain the fact that - in the case of Bergson’s...”
– Gilles Deleuze - Difference and Repetition
Jun 8th
May 2010
3 posts
“It is in hubris that everyone finds the being which makes him return, along with...”
– Gilles Deleuze - Difference and Repetition
May 17th
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May 7th
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“The movement of the swimmer does not resemble that of the wave, in particular,...”
– Gilles Delezue: Difference and repetition
May 6th
April 2010
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First Evidence That Quantum Processes Generate... →
A quantum random number generator is a kind of a computer too… but it computes something which according to our current conceptions is incomputable - that which is the result of absolutely no conceivable algorithm! If Lewis Carroll was alive he could write another book…
Apr 17th
February 2010
1 post
“THE MOIST MANIFESTO MOIST SPACE is where dry pixels and wet molecules converge...”
– BIOMEDIALE
Feb 26th
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January 2010
1 post
“To attain the multiple, one must have a method that effectively constructs it;...”
– A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze & Guattari
Jan 23rd
November 2009
4 posts
“you can’t blame the President for the state of the country, it’s...”
– Ken Kesey http://www.edge.org/
Nov 20th
“My visit to Google? Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I felt I was...”
– Edge: TURING’S CATHEDRAL by George Dyson
Nov 14th
“we have a population explosion of ideas, but not enough brains to cover them....”
– Edge In Frankfurt: THE AGE OF THE INFORMAVORE— A Talk with Frank Schirrmacher
Nov 14th
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking...”
Nov 13th
October 2009
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Oct 28th
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Oct 25th
“Once the Author is removed, the claim to decipher a text becomes quite futile....”
– ROLAND BARTHES
Oct 22nd
Oct 21st
“No creation and no passing away, just an eternal mixing and reshuffling of...”
– Anaxagoras (428 B.C.)
Oct 21st