June 2011
25 posts
WatchI want to sit in a field and do nothing now. ulaulaman:
Plains Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo (via Universe Today)
The Best Hard Science Fiction Books of all Time →
scipsy:
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - J. Verne
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
I, Robot - I. Asimov
The Shockwave Rider - J. Brunner
The Fountains of Paradise - A. C. Clark
Cyteen - C.J. Cherryh
The Mars Trilogy - K. S. Robinson
The Diamon Age - N. Stephenson
Rainbows End - V. Vinge
Incandescence - G. Egan
definitely missed one”Starship Troopers”-Robert A. Heinlein
NeuroPsyDoctor8: Anyone home? A few thoughts on... →
psydoctor8:
The image of Daphne the nymph changing into a plant while running away from Apollo to save her virginity, is often used to illustrate the vegetative state: the notion of being a responsive, conscious human being at one moment and not being one the next. We either are or we aren’t. The idea…
'Time' not necessarily deeply rooted in our brains →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
Hidden away in the Amazonian rainforest a small tribe have successfully managed what so many dream of being able to do – to ignore the pressures of time so successfully that they don’t even have a word for it.
It is the first time scientists have been able to prove ‘time’ is not a deeply entrenched human universal concept as previously thought.
Researchers, led by...
