Us – the end product of centuries of change, that thinks it’s the best there...
Here is the entire BBC documentary-series “The Day The Universe Changed” (1985) by James Burke, generously made available on Youtube by The James Burke Institute for Innovation in Education and its...
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After listening to French Professor Alain Badiou’s lecture on Philosophy and Lacan, I feel a bit like a microbe in an ocean of knowledge, illustrated by this comic: Comic strip posted today in the...
View ArticleCity of strange love
I accidentally ran into the Eiffel Tower today. And that reminded me of the documentary Strange Love – Married To The Eiffel Tower (which I have written about before). As I was working my way through...
View ArticleWhere is home?
GOCE in orbitCopyright: ESA /AOES MedialabDescription: GOCE orbit is so low that it experiences drag from the outer edges of Earth’s atmosphere. The satellite’s streamline structure and use of electric...
View Article“A polymerized resin with a chemist acting as coach”
“Plastics will play as large a role in peace as they do in war” Plastics – a 1944 Science & Chemistry Educational Documentary:
View ArticleTechnocalypse now!
“I invented this word “technocalyps” to describe what seemed to me a process that I could observe around me, technocalypse meaning the convergence of two seemingly unrelated things: the Apocalyptic...
View ArticleGet infected, Be the Cure
Robert B. Lisek PIKSEL 14 be\O/art, 13-16 nov, Bergen. “Enter the BioNet launches us into the future in a science-fiction scenario in which the Net, the Internet of our time, has collapsed. The Genom...
View ArticleWaste Line, Day 1
My Waste Line, Day 1, is 172 cm long and weighs 540 grams. If I substract all organic matter (334 g), which will go back to nature quickly enough, it only weighs 206 g. I suspect the weight readings...
View ArticleWaste Line has an existential crisis, Day 2
My waste line today has shrunk since yesterday. It measures only 128cm and weighs merely 116g. Why this dramatic weight loss? It is not solely because organic matter was removed from the line. I...
View ArticleWaste Line suffers from bizarre mood disorder, Day 3
(Did you miss previous chapter in the fascinating story of Waste Line? Don’t worry, you can find all of it here. PS: The chapters are best read in chronological order) It was late in the afternoon...
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