Austin: Here We Are LIVE w/ Shane Mauss + Michael Garfield (Life Lessons From Mass Extinctions)
Each week stand-up comedian Shane Mauss travels to find the top scientists to explore the meanings of life in a funny, fascinating, and accessible way. This Monday, we visit Austin to speak with paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield about “exciting times.”
The Reality Nervous System
We do not need to postulate a whole material universe outside of consciousness anymore. Empirical reality is merely the outside image – the external aspect – of the mental activity of a cosmic consciousness.
Interplay with Indra’s Internet
Our future — as switched on individuals and as a collaborative species — belongs to those of us who attempt the terrifying but enlivening experience of authentic collaboration: Seeking love, truth and creativity in interplay with others.
Rainbow Wizard Science
Colin Bowring is a real life rainbow wizard. Smoke rings, lasers and mirrors oh my! Check out these shots from his recent gallery show.
Technature
Future technology has to consist of machines, materials and molecules that adapt to the biologic cycles of earth instead of perturbing them, and they have to enrich earth with life-enhancing stimuli instead of discharging poisons. What is needed, therefore, is a different, new “nature of technology,” an evolution whereby technology adapts to its environment.
The Night Sky, Part One
The 2014 revised edition of The Night Sky completes a nine-book project that began without a blueprint and ran for about thirty-six years while I investigated four main topics—medicine, cosmology, embryology, and consciousness—each from a combination of scientific, anthropological, historical, and esoteric viewpoints. My premise is that science is telling us half or less of what it is doing.
A Miracle in Scientific American
In the latest issue of Scientific American, Michael Shermer describes an amazing and beautiful synchronicity that happened the day of his wedding,That this spontaneous and numinous experience happened to one of the world’s most prominent debunkers of such experiences may, like the dot of yin in the fullness of yang, portend a fundamental transition.
Clearing the Air: Artists Take on Corporate Influence in Natural History Museums
I spoke with the artist collective Not An Alternative about their Natural History Museum, a new project that confronts the unsavory influence of corporate cash on science institutions.
Scientists Find Sniffing Rosemary Can Increase Memory By 75%
Get to your kitchen cabinets and start cramming! Rosemary has been known to be good for you, but scientists have recently discovered it can increase memory up to 75%.
Tim Freke On Soul Crushing Science
Interview with consciousness philosopher and author, Tim Freke examines the absurdity of science-as-we-know-it.