Posts Tagged ‘Evolution’

Obama says “Fuck It”

Obama says “Fuck It”
Obama is doing his best to make positive changes in America and the world, but all that he’s getting for it is abuse and loss of popularitry. Where has all the faith gone? The first inspirational leader in at least a generation and everyone’s bored already… VN:F [1.7.8_1020]please...
March 11th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

Neanderthals bid for Human Status

Neanderthals bid for Human Status
NEANDERTHALS as innovators? That the concept seems amusing goes to show how our sister species has become the butt of our jokes. Yet in the Middle Palaeolithic, some 300,000 years ago, innovation is what the Neanderthals were up to. From NewScientist, by Rowan Hooper This period is usually regarded...
February 25th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More

BREAKPOINT: terrorists vs. transhumanists

BREAKPOINT: terrorists vs. transhumanists
Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke’s BREAKPOINT novel, set in the year 2012, is based on emerging technologies. “Globegrid,” a high-speed global network, links supercomputers worldwide. Combined with advanced AI software, it promises to reverse-engineer the brain, revolutionize...
February 17th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More

The Men Who Really Stare At Goats

The Men Who Really Stare At Goats
Three years in the making, Jon Ronson’s “Crazy Rulers of the World” explores the apparent madness at the heart of US military intelligence. With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary and plain bizarre national secrets at the core...
February 11th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

ADVENTURES IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION

ADVENTURES IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION
THE TIME MACHINE AND THE BIRTH OF CINEMA In October 1895, the twenty-nine year old H.G.Wells was in the first flush of his fame and success. The Time Machine, serialised the previous year, had appeared in book form over the summer, and was heading for the Christmas bestseller lists on the back of reviews...
February 11th, 2010 | Arts | Read More

Evolvers Spores: The Future of Psychedelics

Evolvers Spores: The Future of Psychedelics
Evolver.net, MAPS, the Beckley Foundation, and Brainwaving present Evolvers Spores: The Future of Psychedelics For millennia, cultures around the world expanded minds and visions with “teacher plants” – what we commonly know today as psychedelics. The widespread popularity of LSD during the 1960s...
February 10th, 2010 | Altered States | Read More

Psychedelics and Species Connectedness

Psychedelics and Species Connectedness
Evidence suggests that at the very least the consumption of psychedelic substances leads to an increased concern for Nature and ecological issues. On one level we can understand that this may be due to a basic appreciation of place and aesthetics that accompanies the increased sensory experience, or...
February 8th, 2010 | Extended Mind | Read More

Is Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory going Extinct?

Is Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory going Extinct?
READERS in search of literature about Darwin or Darwinism will have no trouble finding it. Recent milestone anniversaries of Darwin’s birth and of the publication of On the Origin of Species have prompted a plethora of material, so authors thinking of adding another volume had better have a good...
February 8th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More

Do we need a New Eleusis?

Do we need a New Eleusis?
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who was first to synthesise LSD and the first to taste its awesome power, died in April last year at the grand age of 102. Twelve years earlier, I was fortunate enough to have dinner with the grand old man; we talked about many things, but his vision of the need for...
February 5th, 2010 | Health & Happiness | Read More

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution
This is a transcript of a talk by Charlotte Walsh at Retox Seminar earlier this month: Drugs & the Internet are inextricably and symbiotically entwined. Indeed, the very origins of the Internet are bound up with the exuberant experimentation with psychedelic drugs that took place in Silicon Valley...
February 4th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More
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