Consulting your pineal gland. Big time. http://singlenesia.com/cabal Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:53:59 -0400 FeedCreator 1.7.1 en-us (K)3170 The Barry Bittwister Cabal. All Rites Reversed http://backend.userland.com/rss http://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=201004299520.baltimore_kinetic_sculpture_race By Lyle Zapato. The Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race is an annual event where Kinetinauts race amphibious, human-powered art-vehicles to victory and glory. This year has a very special entrant (from the Spectator's Guide): Veke Versa Boat is from the Jemicy School of Baltimore and is dedicated to providing habitat for the endangered, elusive, and apocryphal tree octopus. ... Lyle Zapato Zapato Productions intradimensional (Lite) Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:50:52 -0400 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D12096 A growing set of nanoscale components are emerging from the lab that someday will power handheld devices that can provide custom health care advice, marrying novel bioengineering components with existing computer and consumer technologies, says Luke P. Lee, professor of bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley. ... KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:35:46 -0400 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=12096 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D12095 Brown University researchers have found neural mechanisms that underlie our remarkable ability to discover abstract cognitive relationships when dealing with new problems. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, they found that the frontal cortex of the brain appears to be organized in a front to back hierarchy: more anterior regions support rule learning at higher levels of abstraction, and when humans confront new rule learning problems, this division of labor supports ... KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:06:27 -0400 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=12095 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D12094 McGill University researchers have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of snow, grass or pebbles underfoot, for augmented reality applications, telepresence, training, rehabilitation, or virtual foot controllers. [pic] (Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/25114/?ref=rss&a=f) KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:10:22 -0400 http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=12094 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Technoccult/~3/tZ92Az-6yc4/ Preview on davidmack.com (via Wade) Related posts:Philip K Dick’s FBI file and the bizarre story of a neo-Nazi plot to start a Third World War The economics of comic book universes New book from Bill Whitcomb and Michael Skrtic: Selections from the Dream Manual Related posts: Technoccult http://technoccult.net/archives/2010/04/28/comic-book-adaptation-of-philip-k-dicks-electric-ant/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:45:50 -0400 http://technoccult.net/?p=10684