edit: this “supergenre”, if that exists, could simply be “this is a list of movies you shouldn’t know anything about prior to watching, aside maybe from their genre”. I recently set out to identify (more…)
REPRINTED WITHOUT PERMISSION: Henry Rollins: America’s Real Safety Net Is Drugs, Alcohol, Cheap Food and Free Porn
(this was in the LA Weekly. not many people read the LA Weekly. just about as many people as my blog.) — Henry Rollins: America’s Real Safety Net Is Drugs, Alcohol, Cheap Food and Free Porn THURSDAY, (more…)
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is out of date, completely wrong, & wildly ignorant of the privilege it espouses. Time to update it?
I’ve been looking for academic discourse regarding Maslow, and it doesn’t seem that there is a wide array of conversation in regards to the idea of Maslow’s Hierarchy born of white privilege? I am a tall (more…)
A New World of rationalism, religion, and extremism; Never the ‘tween shall meet.
Future of human race will depend on how we're able to deal w/extremism, cultism, irrationalism, mental illness,& the like.All tied together. — Uncle Fishbits (@UncleFishbits) April 17, 2015 Understand (more…)
The Frontier is Everywhere…. Carl Sagan on Wanderers, and we as Voyagers.
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo. Voyagers from Santiago Menghini on Vimeo.
Reframe your ideas of meaning & purpose. =)
Meaning and purpose isn’t quantifiable like mass or gravity. It can’t be measured…. it’s completely human defined, and as subjective as that makes it, it’s totally individual. I think I stopped (more…)
Why Mars?
Carl Sagan said it best: https://vimeo.com/108650530 tl;dr – we’re finite, the earth is finite, and we’ve evolved to survive at all costs. It may look like an odd step, going to another planet in our (more…)
We will spread like a virus, slingshot across the depths of space time….
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/emdrive-news-rumors/ Spacecraft equipped with a reactionless drive could potentially make it to the moon in just a few hours, Mars in two to three months, and (more…)
Time Crystals are fairly novel, if not easily practically important.
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/09/floquet-time-crystals-could-exist-and.html Time Crystals in their ground state are moving through time, not space, breaking quantum time translation symmetry. more (more…)
Will in utero targeted genome editing, like Crispr, wipe out genetic “issues” like alcoholism, or propensity for violence?
I am speaking about the ethics involved, not just the science, ie where is the fine line of gene editing in utero? Everyone gets hyperbolic about Crispr allowing people to tailor children to their exact (more…)