Posts Tagged ‘war’

Russia and US in secret talks to fight net crime

Forget missiles, nukes and biological weapons. Many of tomorrow’s battles will be fought in the fog of cyberspace, and as Daniel Nasaw’s article from guardian.co.uk shows, the US and Russia are currently holding secret talks to lay down the ground rules for the conflicts of the future. American...

December 14th, 2009 | Creativity, Science & Technology | Read More

An Abdication of Human Response

Adam Gyngell considers Waltz with Bashir and the role technology plays in the abdication of human response in times of war. Ari Folman asks his friend why, twenty years down the line, he is now having this surreal dream from the war in Lebanon. Why can’t he remember the occasion this vision so powerfully...

November 10th, 2009 | Arts | Read More

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• ▼2010 (114)
  • ►July (15)
    • Did the ingredients for Life came from Space? 07/28
    • Jobs, Taxes and Crime: Keys to California's Pot Vote 07/28
    • A Brainwaving Computer 07/28
    • Genetically Modified Animals 07/28
    • Cooking, Fire and Human Evolution 07/26
    • Psychedelic Technologies 07/26
    • The Anti-Psychic's Challenge 07/20
    • Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine 07/20
    • Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World 07/13
    • A Ladies' Man and Shameless 07/13
    • Why can't we stop Believing? 07/06
    • BIG BANG BIG BOOM 07/06
    • Mutation in key gene allows Tibetans to thrive 07/05
    • (A Brief History and) Motivation of an Entheogenic Chemist 07/05
    • “WATSON: THE NEEDLE!” 07/01
  • ►June (11)
    • Vegetarian Brains 06/30
    • International drug crime measures 'lead to executions' 06/30
    • Feathering the Falcon’s nest 06/13
    • Entrepreneurs leading the Space Race 06/11
    • DMT and the Pineal: Fact or Fiction? 06/08
    • Noam Chomsky and Latin America 06/07
    • How Dudus stayed ahead of the Police 06/07
    • That’s one Miraculous Conception 06/03
    • Christopher 'Dudus' Coke extradition entangles local and international law 06/03
    • Brain's Master Switch Is Verified 06/01
    • Botticelli's love drug 06/01
  • ►May (6)
    • The First Synthetic Life Form 05/21
    • Noam Chomsky barred by Israelis from lecturing in Palestinian West Bank 05/21
    • In the Beginning: The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture 05/17
    • The Future of Brain Imaging 05/04
    • ‘THE FRUITFUL MATRIX OF GHOSTS’ 05/04
    • Geek Power 05/01
  • ►April (19)
    • The World Peace Conference 04/30
    • Indian man 'survives without food or water for decades' 04/30
    • CNN: Psychedelic Drugs for your Health 04/27
    • Was there a whiff of cannabis about Jesus? 04/26
    • Can the Peace Drug Help Clean Up the War Mess? 04/26
    • Amanda Feilding's Talk at the Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century Conference in San Jose 04/25
    • Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief 04/23
    • A Stroke of Insight 04/19
    • Not Feeling Well? Perhaps You're 'Marijuana Deficient' 04/19
    • Putting the Pope on Trial 04/14
    • Astounding Connection between US Marihuana Prohibition and Mexican Drug Cartel Violence 04/14
    • Do we live in a Multiverse? 04/12
    • Galileo 2010 - The New Inquisition 04/12
    • Can we stop the Cybernetic Revolution? 04/12
    • Over the counter “paranormal” drug used by 3.1 million Americans to get high 04/12
    • The Science of Morality 04/08
    • Entangled 04/08
    • Have we cracked the DMT Puzzle? 04/07
    • The Daily Mail Strikes Back 04/06
  • ►March (18)
    • Mecca Diaries 03/23
    • The most isolated tribe in the world? 03/22
    • THE MACHINE STOPS 03/22
    • Is the Drug War legitimizing Racism? 03/21
    • 10,000 Hours to Shine 03/19
    • The Future of War 03/18
    • How do we make Decisions? 03/18
    • Marijuana Use Triples Among Gary 03/18
    • EYE SPIRITS 03/18
    • Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican 03/12
    • Obama says "Fuck It" 03/11
    • Prayer: A Challenge for Science 03/11
    • A Drug Free World Reloaded 03/11
    • A Swansea Love Story 03/08
    • The New Cocaine Mafia 03/08
    • Mexican Drug Policy Reform Movement Takes Shape 03/01
    • MUSHROOMS IN WONDERLAND 03/01
    • Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate 03/01
  • ►February (18)
    • Neanderthals bid for Human Status 02/25
    • Confessions of a ten-a-day man 02/25
    • Can You Find Consciousness In The Brain? 02/23
    • Placebos - Is Mind more important than Matter? 02/19
    • BREAKPOINT: terrorists vs. transhumanists 02/17
    • LSD for the NHS? 02/16
    • The Men Who Really Stare At Goats 02/11
    • Why Was Cannabis Made Illegal? 02/11
    • ADVENTURES IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION 02/11
    • Evolvers Spores: The Future of Psychedelics 02/10
    • Psychedelics and Species Connectedness 02/08
    • Is Darwin's 'Survival of the Fittest' theory going Extinct? 02/08
    • Do we need a New Eleusis? 02/05
    • Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate 02/04
    • Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution 02/04
    • The Price of Prison 02/02
    • Are Charter Cities the way to Third World Prosperity? 02/01
    • The Shaman's Renaissance 02/01
  • ►January (27)
    • Let's Eliminate Welfare for Terrorists 01/29
    • It's lack of balance that makes skunk cannabis do harm 01/29
    • Can we crack the Consciousness Puzzle? 01/28
    • KISS ME / KILL ME 01/28
    • Quining Qualia 01/26
    • The Abolition of Man 01/26
    • Could you be a Bin Laden Model too? 01/22
    • What is an Altered State of Consciousness? 01/22
    • Rats Addicted To Gambling 01/22
    • US opens its first marijuana cafe 01/20
    • Let's All Move To Portugal 01/20
    • Psychedelic drugs could heal thousands 01/20
    • Is the US Government covering up the truth about UFOs? 01/20
    • Google to end censorship in China over cyber attacks 01/18
    • David Nutt gets £450,000 for Independent Drugs Committee 01/18
    • Wasson and the Psychedelic Revolution 01/18
    • Does Cocaine make you Smarter? 01/15
    • Jimmy Carter: Gaza must be rebuilt now 01/14
    • The dark side of the internet 01/14
    • Avatar – A mythic masterpiece for our troubled time 01/13
    • Is Psychedelia 'The New Black'? 01/12
    • DRUG WAR IS A LOST CAUSE - LIKE PROHIBITION 01/12
    • Blackwater and The Last Crusade 01/11
    • Can We Escape Consumerism? 01/06
    • Shifting Consciousness: Six Years with Yogis and Tibetan Buddhists 01/03
    • Legalisation: The First Hundred Years 01/03
    • Writing the Unthinkable: Narrative, the Bomb and Nuclear Holocaust 01/03
• ►2009 (93)
  • ►December (29)
    • Can Human Nature Be Changed? 12/30
    • Is Equasy more dangerous than Ecstasy? 12/30
    • Education Increases Your Chances of Believing in ESP 12/30
    • What Happens When We Die? 12/27
    • A particle God doesn’t want us to discover? 12/23
    • Requiem for a Crowded Planet - What does the Failure of Climate Talks mean? 12/22
    • The Predator War - What are the risks of using Drones? 12/22
    • Opening to the Infinite 12/18
    • Has dark matter finally been detected? 12/18
    • Second Lives - What attracts so many to live Virtual Lives? 12/17
    • Mechanisms of Fear: Man and Machine at the dawn of the 20th Century 12/16
    • Rat Made Supersmart -- Similar Boost Unsafe in Humans? 12/16
    • Enter the Jaguar 12/15
    • The World of Professional Gaming 12/15
    • Russia and US in secret talks to fight net crime 12/14
    • Hanging with the BIG DOGS- Meet Petman 12/11
    • An Ethnography of Conspiracy Theories 12/10
    • Dannion Brinkley - Prophet or Profiteer? 12/10
    • Bye bye Windows? 12/10
    • Feeling Go(o)d: The Physics of Emotion 12/08
    • Wikipedia's Known Unknowns 12/04
    • For The Love of Goddess 12/04
    • Don't Be Evil? Google Chrome's Big Brother Potential 12/03
    • 2012 & Human Destiny 12/02
    • Life Lessons from an ad man 12/02
    • Aquatic Apes 12/02
    • The Future of the Universe 12/02
    • The Singularity is Near 12/01
    • The Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada 12/01
  • ►November (21)
    • Huxley on Drugs and Creativity 11/30
    • Will Technology create a Wiser World? 11/25
    • Avian Einsteins 11/25
    • Drug Users Know Their Stuff 11/25
    • The Elephant Artist 11/24
    • If Marijuana Production Were Legal: Projected Tax Revenues, by State 11/21
    • The Great Wall of Facebook 11/20
    • Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? 11/20
    • A Village that Cocaine Built 11/20
    • The Effects of Group Meditation on Crime 11/19
    • Is the Universe Self Aware? 11/18
    • Direct Observation of Atoms through Clairvoyance 11/18
    • Left in the Dark 11/17
    • An Abdication of Human Response 11/10
    • The Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy 11/09
    • The Wire's War on the Drug War 11/09
    • And The Beat Goes On 11/09
    • Happiness is a Skill to be Cultivated 11/05
    • Technological Singularity - An Introduction 11/05
    • David Nutt: Governments should get real on drugs 11/04
    • A Glimpse of Burning Man 11/03
  • ►October (11)
    • LSD and the Evolution of Consciousness 10/29
    • Psi-verts and psychic piracy: The future of parapsychology? 10/28
    • Scientists study possible health benefits of LSD and ecstacy 10/24
    • Is your cheeseburger causing global warming? 10/21
    • The White Stuff 10/21
    • Political Science 10/21
    • Ex-Presidents Call for Change 10/11
    • Neanderthal Brains 10/06
    • Researchers Try to Cure Racism 10/04
    • Molecules of Emotion 10/04
    • God in the Brain 10/01
  • ►September (6)
    • Contraception is the "Greenest" of Green Technologies 09/30
    • Can America admit defeat in its war on drugs? 09/29
    • The Conscious Heart 09/29
    • Starting to make SENS 09/29
    • Popping pills - Cognitive enhancement 09/28
    • How Evolution Is Evolving 09/28
  • ►August (26)
    • Elegant Universe - String Theory simply and delightfully explained 08/19
    • The Trap – What Happened to our Dream of Freedom? 08/19
    • SIXTH SENSE OR NONSENSE? 08/18
    • "I take Illegal drugs for Inspiration" 08/18
    • HEALING AS ART AND TECHNOLOGY 08/18
    • MIND AND HEALING 08/13
    • MENTAL RADIO REVIEW 08/13
    • THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT 08/13
    • MORPHIC RESONANCE AND MORPHIC FIELDS 08/13
    • test for environment 08/08
    • test 08/08
    • Science Article 1 08/07
    • Well-Being Article 1 08/07
    • THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON GOD 08/07
    • Big Ideas Article 1 08/07
    • Eco Deep Article 1 08/07
    • Technology Article 1 08/07
    • Cultural Evolution Article 1 08/07
    • Cultural Incongruities 08/07
    • Drug Policy article 1 08/07
    • Investigating Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow and CSF Movement Following Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 08/07
    • Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 08/07
    • Cranial Compliance 08/07
    • Investigating the Psychological Effects of THC and the Medical Potential of CBD 08/07
    • Identifying the Neurobiological Correlates of the Subjective Effects of Cannabis that Users Find Beneficial 08/07
    • From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine 08/07

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