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The Authentic Human Behavior of Mad Men
This is, then, a hopeful ending, not just for Don, and for the other characters — all of whom reinvented themselves professionally and personally, and showed signs of having learned from past mistakes — but for America itself. Hopeful is not the same thing as simple-minded. Mad Men was never…
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The New Eye – Visionary Art and Tradition | Mundus Imaginalis
Source: www.mundusimaginalis.org
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‘Queer Icons’ Of Color
Icons are an essential part of the visual history of religions, including those of the Catholic, Coptic and Orthodox Christian traditions. From the familiar Mary and the Archangel Gabriel to the more obscure Saint Menas or Theotokos of Vladimir, iconic depictions venerate the figures we consider holy or miraculous, marked…
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Luciano Floridi on the Philosophy of Information
The philosophy of information is a new area of research. We didn’t study it when we were students, partly because we didn’t realise that the glasses were on our noses. There’s a lot of philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the present day that discusses what we now think of…
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Soul loss: the shaman’s diagnosis of our existential complaints – Dream Gates
The greatest contribution of the ancient shamans to our medicine and healing today is the understanding that in the course of any life we are liable to suf Source: www.beliefnet.com
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►Greek Mythology: “Athena, Goddess of Wisdom”.-
“Minerva, the Goddess of Wisdom and Knowledge” by Willem De Poorter. (17th century). Source: aquileana.wordpress.com
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This Flower-Filled Abandoned House Is Bringing A Bit Of Life Back To Detroit
Late one evening this month, a woman appeared in the second-story window of an abandoned house overlooking a Detroit freeway. A spotlight illuminated her face as she flung handfuls of white petals down to the crowd gathered outside a venue that felt more like the setting of a dark fairytale…
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The Island of Knowledge: How to Live with Mystery in a Culture Obsessed with Certainty and Definitive Answers
…a celebration of human achievement and a gentle reminder that the appropriate reaction to scientific and technological progress is not arrogance over the knowledge conquered, which seems to be our civilizational modus operandi, but humility in the face of what remains to be known and, perhaps above all, what may…
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The dawn of artificial intelligence
“THE development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” Stephen Hawking warns. Elon Musk fears that the development of artificial intelligence, or AI, may be the biggest existential threat humanity faces. Bill Gates urges people to beware of it. Dread that the abominations people create…
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UH Researchers Create Lens to Turn Smartphone into Microscope – University of Houston
Researchers at the University of Houston have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive smartphone to amplify images by a magnitude of 120, all for just 3 cents a lens. Source: www.uh.edu
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Magic Mushrooms Create a Hyperconnected Brain
The research, which was published today (Oct. 28) in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, is part of a larger effort to understand how psychedelic drugs work, in the hopes that they could one day be used by psychiatrists — in carefully controlled settings — to treat conditions such…
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At the Blackboard
I want to share with you something I’ve learned. I’ll draw it on the blackboard behind me so you can follow more easily [draws a vertical line on the blackboard]. This is the G–I axis: good fortune–il Source: laphamsquarterly.org Kurt Vonnegut talks about story telling. Quite brilliant, really.
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