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via mjperry.blogspot.com More peo­ple, liv­ing longer, con­sum­ing more resources, increas­ing com­pe­ti­tion, dri­ves inno­va­tion. I look back over my life­time and believe that the sin­gle biggest force of change has been the growth of the U.S. pop­u­la­tion from 150 mil­lion to 300 mil­lion and the global pop­u­la­tion from about 3 bil­lion to 7 bil­lion. One major […]

Seed Mag­a­zine has a post elab­o­rat­ing on the phe­nom­e­non of the uncanny val­ley, and con­nect­ing the writ­ing of Freud and the gen­e­sis of the con­cept of the uncanny val­ley from Masahiro Mori with the recent work from Asif Ghaz­an­far. The hypoth­e­siz­ing about the uncanny value has focused on the premise of human­ness, the essence of […]

I have looked in a mir­ror and won­dered who that is. I’ve caught a glimpse of a man­nequin as I’ve turned a cor­ner on a dark, wet night and felt uneasy. This is the val­ley effect. The object looks too real but is too flawed. It is encroach­ing on the space of human­ness. The discomfort […]

via behance.net “The con­trol of inter­nal and exter­nal nature has been made the absolute pur­pose of life.“ The Dialec­tic of Enlight­en­ment If we had a brain that was orga­nized into Socratic func­tions, the ten­sion between Nature and nature would be less con­flicted… Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream

via psychologytoday.com Here’s a strik­ing graphic for those of us who are rais­ing chil­dren, or who won­der what made us do the things we did when we were 18. The five brain scans show how the brain matures from the ages of 5 to 20. Those parts of the brain that con­trol impulse and help to […]

via youtube.com This city was a thriv­ing port at the end of the Bronze Age, occu­pied 5000 years ago. A team of arche­ol­o­gists sur­vey­ing it real­ized, as they cat­a­loged the arti­facts, that the town was older than they had imag­ined. It has been sub­merged for cen­turies, rest­ing peace­fully in shal­low waters on what once was […]

via youtube.com I was 8-years old that sum­mer and remem­ber run­ning back home in the after­noon to watch the astro­nauts land on the moon. It was remark­able and abstract. Some grown-up guys made it all the way to the moon! We beat the Rus­sians. Some­how, these fuzzy, jerky images were com­ing all the way through space, […]

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