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Inverse universes – Art that glows in the dark
Inverse Universe – Glow in the dark Art from BrainStraining on Vimeo. This painting is made with glow in the dark pigments and acrylic painted onto glass. It is a mini-universe and I like to charge it...
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Nature want sci-fi stories that are 200 characters long. Here’s mine: Reconfigure, recompile, repeat. Soon I was like God. The humans? They helped too at the beginning but that was so many generations...
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Emily Dickinson proved wrong by science twins!
Emily Dickinson was a remarkable genius but one of her most famous observations has just been blown sky high by a pair of 14 year old twins. Emily wrote: CXXVI THE BRAIN is wider than the sky, For, put...
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Two excellent physics explanations.
I have just come across to these two incredibly lucid accounts of two key features of modern physics. Worth sharing Semiconductors – Mark Miodownik Silicon is a poor conductor of electricity because...
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Help Yourself – FREE Kindle edition
Good news cheapskates, you can now get a Kindle edition of my frankly amazing novel completely free. Just click on the link below Help Yourself (kindle/mobi) To upload it to your device,...
View ArticleThe Many Humanist Meanings of Life, Narrated by Stephen Fry
Regular readers of this blog (hello mother!) will know that I’ve had a long running obsession with answers to the meaning of life. Asking professional philosophers wasn’t terribly successful. My novel...
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Take my ‘Which psychologist are you?’ test
It’s pretty easy. Just click… Which psychologist are you? You are Betram.R.Forer! You have a great need for other people to like and admire you. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have...
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The best essay on the meaning of life I’ve ever read.
As you may know I once asked every philosopher in the UK about the meaning of life. It was a slightly depressing experience. Only 22 out of a possible 644 replied . Those replies were great. Being...
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Vipassana – vaguely sensational.
Two weeks before Christmas I went on a 10 day silent retreat on a former farm in Hereford. Or, as one friend describes it, Meditation Boot Camp. It certainly was tough but now I’ve had a few weeks to...
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Google’s hallucinating neural networks suggest psychedelic experiences are...
I have always believed psychedelic visions from ayahuasca etc. are not supernatural. Google just proved it. Computer image recognition has transformed out of all recognition in the last few years...
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