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How music changes our brains

Science is becoming increasingly interested in the relationship between sound and the brain...

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Everything is becoming a game. What are the risks of ubiquitous gamification?

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Virtual Panopticon | Reality Sandwich

Newsteaser:  The FBI announces its plan to implement iris scans as part of a new nationwide facial recognition service set to launch in January 2012. Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” comes to mind as the FBI announces its plan to...

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NEW DRUG CURES INDEPENDENT THOUGHT

Short comedy radio ad for fake drug COMPLYACIN that cures children of independent thought, creativity and talking about Ron Paul.

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Geocities-izer

Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996.

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[TOTAL FUCKING SCIENCE]  Suspending a superconducting disc above or below a set of permanent magnets. The magnetic field is locked inside the superconductor ; a phenomenon called 'Quantum Trapping'. For more info visit: http://www.quantumlevitation.com

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“The Inevitable Revolution” by Lyev Tolstoy.

There is but one way of escape: to liberate one’s self from the belief, once common to mankind, in the necessity and lawfulness of violence, and to assimilate the belief, suitable to the present age of humanity and preached by all the religions of the world, in the necessity and lawfulness of love, excluding all violence of whatever kind.

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FB BLOCKING DUBIOUS VIDEO ON BANKSTERCIDE!

Facebook is currently blocking a strange video released in time for the October 15th world protest. Yet, there are certain inconsistencies apparent in the video.

Strangely, unlike previous communiques via the protestors and hacktivists, this vid speaks specifically of "frontier justice," which goes directly against the majority declaration of nonviolence by the 99%. In many posts related to the movement there seems to be a general closing maxim of 'stay cool' and 'don't do something stupid out there.' Could this video be an agitation or manipulation? The voice over sounds glaringly professional and trained instead of the standard wordpad style text-speak on most other communiques from Anonymous. Is this their style? Could it be a provocation used to incite violence in order to launch martial law? Surely this video does NOT represent the feelings of all those demonstrating around the world. There is always room for those corrupt to step down and quietly remove themselves from power. For some there is always room for compassion, reconciliation, and orderly justice.

What all parties interested must forever keep in mind is that once violence is used supposedly in the name of the cause, it will be turned and used right back 10-fold upon the cause. This is worth avoiding at all costs...

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Anonymous central just posted a notice on its website calling for the Occupy Wall Street Movement to avoid a full blown revolution and put its weight behind forming a new political party.

The statement says a vote for either party is a vote for the status quo and the two party system is entirely insufficient to carry the country through its problems and into the future.

This new party would work in the interests of th 99%.

The full proposal is below.

Woah.

This seems like a terrible idea.

That’s because it is. When are people going to realize that perpetuating this political edifice of ‘pseudo-republic’ for as long as we have is what’s caused most of the problems? Why does it have to be either money-grabbing or power-grabbing schemes? Any organization that’s pursued political power has turned into organized crime. Lobbyists and unions, which are mutually inclusive by the way, are a good example. Free association -/> a new party. Look at Greece with it’s insurmountable party system. What happens? The same two parties get elected. Also, party representative “democracies” are inherently corrupt and tyrannical. Any voting that piggybacks on ideology and not on an idea case-by-case basis is tyrannical. Fixed terms are tyrannical. Nausea successfully induced.

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Toxic Culture A unified theory of mental pollution.

How do we fight back against the incessant flow of logos, brands, slogans and jingles that submerge our streets, invade our homes and flicker on our screens? We could wage a counteroffensive at the level of content: attacking individual advertisements when they cross the decency line and become deceptive, violent or overly sexual. But this approach is like using napkins to clean up an oil spill. It fails to confront the true danger of advertising – which is not in its individual messages but in the damage done to our mental ecology by the sheer volume of its flood.

The first step to confronting advertising is to stop seeing it as a form of commercialized communication and start considering it to be a kind of pollution. Think about the long-term mental consequences of seeing a Nike swoosh dozens of times a day from birth until death, for example, or whether repetitive exposure to American Apparel’s patriarchal imagery might damage our psyches. Questions like these get at the heart of advertising and lead us to mental environmentalism.

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Punk Mathematics Author Tom Henderson to Keynote EsoZone Portland 2011

Tom Henderson, author of the forthcoming book Punk Mathematics, will keynote EsoZone Portland 2011 on November 18th at p:ear. Admission is free. Tom’s talk is tentatively titled “Time, Space, and the Self are Illusions – So Do ‘You’ Wanna Go ‘Out’ with ‘Me’ ‘Tonight’?” He’ll cover:

  Mining your history for strategy

Virtual paranoia

Your eigenself and “you”

Using the howling void beyond your epsilon of consciousness for a good time

Tom has a masters in mathematics from Portland State University. According to the Kickstarter page for his book:

Punk Mathematics will be a series of mathematical stories. It is written for readers who are interested in having their minds expanded by the strange metaphors and implications of mathematics, even if they’re not always on friendly terms with equations. Better living through probability; the fractal dimension of cities and cancers; using orders of magnitude to detect bullshit; free will and quantum economics; and the mathematics of cooperation in a networked world on the brink of a No Future collapse.

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William Gibson Interview

Author William Gibson discusses Victorians, John Shirley and the early days of his career. A longer version of this interview appeared in the 197th issue of Paris Match

"There are dedicated futurists who feel very seriously that they are extrapolating a future history. My position is that you can’t do that without having the present to stand on. Nobody can know the real future. And novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. As soon as a work is complete, it will begin to acquire a patina of anachronism. I know that from the moment I add the final period, the text is moving steadily forward into the real future."

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The Steve Jobs cartoon that gets it

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Police don’t want to bear arms

“We want to have a police force that can handle the most demanding assignments with the least amount of force,” Arne Johannessen, head of the police officers’ union...A survey of the union’s own members showed that fully 60 percent of the police officers questioned said they do not want to be armed at all times. At present, they only arm themselves after receiving authorization in dangerous situations." --- I WANNA BE A NORWEGIAN COP!

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Experimental mathematics: Computing power leads to insights

In his 1989 book "The Emperor's New Mind", Roger Penrose commented on the limitations on human knowledge with a striking example: He conjectured that we would most likely never know whether a string of 10 consecutive 7s appears in the digital expansion of the number pi. Just 8 years later, Yasumasa Kanada used a computer to find exactly that string, starting at the 22869046249th digit of pi. Penrose was certainly not alone in his inability to foresee the tremendous power that computers would soon possess. Many mathematical phenomena that not so long ago seemed shrouded and unknowable, can now be brought into the light, with tremendous precision.

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