Verbiage Végétal

Ces arbres reposent sur une arborescence complexe composée des lettres de l’alphabet.

DESKTOPOGRAPHY - Qaiyumi ~ Microscopical Abstraction

Technology Review: Strongest Material Ever Tested

If he could get a large enough piece of the material to lay over the top of a coffee cup, he says, graphene would be strong enough to support the weight of a car balanced atop the pencil.

coupland.com ~ the gum theif ~ branding promo

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory.

David Chalmers: Physics requires information states but cares only about their relations, not their intrinsic nature; phenomenology requires information states, but cares only about their fundamental nature.

kelly warman

"Within this idea of progression we have a paradoxical
storm that we are simultaneously attempting to avoid.
We all want to be new; newness is what perpetuates
all new ideas."

Kelly Warman & Tobias Laukemper,"ProgRock" DVD, 5:17 mins

Salon.com News | Apocalypse now

This new age, they explain, is defined both by the heating trend (whose closest analogue may be the catastrophe known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, 56 million years ago) and by the radical instability expected of future environments. In somber prose, they warn that "the combination of extinctions, global species migrations and the widespread replacement of natural vegetation with agricultural monocultures is producing a distinctive contemporary biostratigraphic signal. These effects are permanent, as future evolution will take place from surviving (and frequently anthropogenically relocated) stocks." Evolution itself, in other words, has been forced into a new trajectory.

Lightmark | Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke | Hamburg | Germany

No.60 | N 70°26’36.5“ E 27°53’27.1“,Tanafjorden, Finnmark, Norway, 2007

The Decapitator - a set on Flickr

An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following ''I am a Strange Loop''

My argument in I Am a Strange Loop is spelled out clearly. If a person's soul is truly a pattern, then it can be realized in different media. Wherever that pattern exists in a sufficiently fine-grained way, then it is, by my definition, the soul itself and not some kind of “mere simulation” of it.

Annals of Medicine: The Itch: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

The account of perception that’s starting to emerge is what we might call the “brain’s best guess” theory of perception: perception is the brain’s best guess about what is happening in the outside world. The mind integrates scattered, weak, rudimentary signals from a variety of sensory channels, information from past experiences, and hard-wired processes, and produces a sensory experience full of brain-provided color, sound, texture, and meaning. We see a friendly yellow Labrador bounding behind a picket fence not because that is the transmission we receive but because this is the perception our weaver-brain assembles as its best hypothesis of what is out there from the slivers of information we get. Perception is inference.

Hasan Elahi - Tracking Transience

"I've discovered that the best way to protect your privacy is to give it away"

HOW2

littleBits

littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together. With a growing number of available modules, littleBits aims to move electronics from late stages of the design process to its earliest ones, and from the hands of experts, to those of artists, makers and designers.

The Wondering Minstrels

(Warm, fuzzy description)

th_ gallo_s - H_NGM_N: an online journal of poetry, poetics &c.

PAUL VERMEERSCH

Poetry and such.

Catie Rosemurgy | New York | Kenyon Review Online

The people around us
sharpen slowly like teeth

in a mouth so crowded
it must remain open.

PLoS Biology - Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex

Structurally segregated and functionally specialized regions of the human cerebral cortex are interconnected by a dense network of cortico-cortical axonal pathways. By using diffusion spectrum imaging, we noninvasively mapped these pathways within and across cortical hemispheres in individual human participants. An analysis of the resulting large-scale structural brain networks reveals a structural core within posterior medial and parietal cerebral cortex, as well as several distinct temporal and frontal modules. Brain regions within the structural core share high degree, strength, and betweenness centrality, and they constitute connector hubs that link all major structural modules. The structural core contains brain regions that form the posterior components of the human default network. L