BuckyBall Honors Paradigm Definers
The Buckminster Fuller Institute awarded the 5th Annual BF Challenge award and $100,000 to Seattle NGO Living Building Challenge for top "environmental performance in the built environment."
A Lucid Dream Come True
Two Brooklyn developers designed an REM enhancing sleep mask capable of inducing lucid dreams.
Sights in Sounds
Researchers at Hebrew University are using newly developed technology that allows the blind to "see" by way of soundscapes.
Atomic Flash
Researchers at Ohio State University have captured images of an atom moving within a molecule for the first time ever, using an ultrafast laser and an interesting new technique.
The Unsung Intelligence of Life’s Web
The closer one examines
life the more apparent does natural intelligence become. Like brilliant ideas
and hypotheses made literal flesh in space and time, natural intelligence is
what you see when you look down a microscope at a cell. The genetic code is itself an expression of natural
intelligence. Codes are the hallmark of intelligent activity. Nature got there first.
The Secret Steve Jobs Didnt Know
What are the limits of Genius and how can we surpass them? Steve Jobs, the
much loved Apple founder who innovated and inspired generations of
people from around the world knew a lot about products, branding, and
building a company. However as Apple became a Goliath amongst publicly
held companies is it possible that Jobs could have used nootropics to
have been even smarter and possibly solve even his greatest problems?
Coevolution & The Technology of Desire
From one angle we are "the sex organs of technology" — the mushrooms sprouting up from a global mycelium of routers and electrical wiring. From another angle, we live in loving mutuality with a vast distributed intelligence that constantly reshapes itself to better fit our desires. Those of us born before emotional toys might balk at the idea, but we are swiftly approaching a newly in-spirited world where living machines make philosophical questions of sentience irrelevant.
Pig Pancreases for Humans
New technology may allow researchers to grow human organs inside of pigs.
The Essential Tension of Ideas
One of the key insights in Richard Florida’s latest book, The Great Reset
(Harper, 2010) is that rapid transit increases the exchange of ideas
and thereby spurs innovation. Where the car used to provide this mass
connection, now it hinders it. Increasingly, our cognitive surplus is sitting traffic.
Cheap and EZ DNA
A new technique has enabled the creation of a scanner that can analyze very small scale sequences of DNA, quickly and inexpensively.
