After a ten year hiatus, Electric Sheep Comix returns with a stunning new addition to the psychedelic web-strip Delta from artist Patrick Farley, this one portraying McKenna’s ‘stoned ape theory’. [NSFW]
Get’s really exquisite about 2/3 into it:
The First World [Electric Sheep Comix is back!]
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Categories : art, ayahuasca, biology, cognition, DMT, entheogens, evolution, fun/funny, language, psilocybin, shamanism, trippy
Synthetic Biology Explained
12 01 2012Wonderfully made video explaining synthetic bio in an accessible and easy to understand way.
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Categories : biology, evolution, infotech, nanotechnology, science, singularity, technology, video
Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell on the Importance of Psychedelics in 2012
30 12 2011Wow. What superb clip. Perfect for sharing!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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DNA Code Gets First Grammatical Update In 60 Years
22 12 2011Scientist crunch numbers from 32 different species and reveal fractal grammar behind ratios of codons and oligonucleotides.
For 60 years, biologists have known of only two grammar-like rules that govern the language of DNA. Now they’ve found four more
The Austrian biochemist, Erwin Chargaff, is famous for the two rules he discovered that now bear his name. At the time of this discovery, in 1950, the biggest problem in biology was understanding the structure of DNA. Chargaff’s rules turned out to be an important clue in this puzzle.
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Chargaff’s rules are important because they point to a kind of “grammar of biology”, a set of hidden rules that govern the structure of DNA. This grammar ought to reveal itself as patterns in DNA that are invariant across all species.But in the 60 years since Chargaff discovered his invariant patterns, no others have emerged. Until now.
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Tags: dna, genetics
Categories : biology, chemistry, evolution, infotech, mathematics, science, singularity
The Seven Billionth Story
29 11 2011Beautiful 1-minute animation from Australia:
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Categories : animation, art, biology, evolution, trippy, video
Open Science Summit Videos
17 11 2011Videos of presentations from the 2011 Open Science Summit can be viewed at Fora TV.
Wonderfully juicy topics include open source drug discovery, big data bioinformatics, ‘clinical trials 2.0′, open science education, open access science journalism, personal genomics, radical longevity, transparency in science, incentive and intellectual property: FORA.TV
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Terence McKenna – Time Acceleration
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Categories : cognition, DMT, entheogens, Eschatology/2012, ET's ED's & exopolitics, evolution, infotech, language, physics, poetry, poltics, science, shamanism, singularity, society, spiritual healing, synchronos, technology, time, trippy, video
Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity
13 11 2011IN JUST a few weeks single-celled yeast have evolved into a multicellular organism, complete with division of labour between cells. This suggests that the evolutionary leap to multicellularity may be a surprisingly small hurdle.
Multicellularity has evolved at least 20 times since life began, but the last time was about 200 million years ago, leaving few clues to the precise sequence of events. To understand the process better, William Ratcliff and colleagues at the University of Minnesota in St Paul set out to evolve multicellularity in a common unicellular lab organism, brewer’s yeast.
READ MORE @ NewScientist.com
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Categories : biology, evolution, science
Jason Silva on time, intelligence, language, psychedelics…
5 10 2011and 50 other things in less than 2 minutes! :D
But really, these quick Jason Silva videos are wonderful. Watch in full screen.
More info on each of the videos (and more rants by Silva) on his vimeo page.
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Categories : architecture, art, cognition, cosmology, ecology, entheogens, evolution, infotech, nature, science, singularity, society, spiritual healing, technology, trippy, video
Sci-fi abilities of 6 real life plants
23 09 2011
Plants don’t get enough respect as sci-fi monsters. Sure, Triffids will always rule, but sci-fi baddies tend to be mutants, zombies, vampires and other altered mammals. This is in ignorance of plants’ amazingly creepy special abilities. To prove it, we’ve dug up six plant skills that freak us out more than Godzilla.
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Categories : biology, botany, ecology, evolution, fun/funny, nature, science
StONeD aPe ThEOrY
18 09 2011This is a clip from Duncan Trussell’s Comedy Central Pilot “Thunderbrain.”
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TEDxPSU – Richard Doyle – Scaling the Noösphere
11 06 2011This is a TEDx presentation given by my favorite scholar of the rhetoric of biochemistry and post-vital living, Richard Doyle, about the importance of developing our conceptions of the noösphere.
Currently I’m reading his newest scholarly book concerning his ecodelic hypotheses about archaic and contemporary psychedelic media technologies, Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere.
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