So, I’m suddenly twenty eight years old. Also, it’s snowing out and apparently is not going to stop until I’m twenty nine. I should have prefaced that with the fact that I hate snow and it should all be melted and burned and burned again but alas, the moment is gone. So yes, the...
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In the episode of FourCast I just listened to (see: previous FourCast post), Molly Wood mentioned something that sent my brain off on a tangent. Molly talked a fair bit about nanotechnology, including both massive dangers and massive changes that it may bring to people. She believes that at some point, nanites in our...
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Random shit from my feeds this morning: SciAm: Rapid Thinking Makes People Happy – key here is fast and varied thinking; fast and repetitive tends to lead to anxiety. (This one courtesy of Mark Seifert). NYT: Kindle Books in Snack Sizes – firm called FT Press is producing shorter digital-only works for $2.99 or less,...
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Mind Hacks relayed some stunning graphics from the American Journal of Roentgenology, MRI images from a patient whose hairstyle was bound into a bunch of separate twists and coated in beeswax. The beeswax had iron oxide in it, which the MRI reacted to and showed this incredible flame-aura around his head. I’m gonna stare...
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Snapshots of my random notetaking for the evening: Buddhadharma The Poet’s Compass Ann Waldman- traveling literally and metaphorically in ten directions at once is an old tantric trick Poetry seems to be my best practice, my skill within these realms Schneier on Security Machiavellian Brain Hypothesis we evolved high intelligence not to make better tools but to use other monkeys better...
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