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Electric Lucid Dreams to Treat Post Traumatic Stress Nightmares

Scientists have found a way to induce lucid dreaming using a non-invasive electric current. Each volunteer came into the lab on many different nights. As they slept, their neural activity was...

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Video Explains Fish Tongue Parasite

You’ve probably seen these little creatures that eat a fish’s tongue and then become the tongue and live in the fish’s mouth and you’ve probably said EWWW and who can really blame you? But, if you can...

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Thousands of Drugged Up Toddlers

Some kids are hardly out of the crib before they’re pathologized and medicated. The New York Times says: More than 10,000 American toddlers 2 or 3 years old are being medicated for attention deficit...

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Built in Paranoia: Gated Communities and Redzones

The UN Habitat chief, Joan Clos, has issued a warning about gated communities. “It is with increased preoccupation and sadness that we see how gated communities are proliferating everywhere. This is...

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Google Wants Ads On, you know, Everything

extracrispy         Probably not the most surprising thing either of us will read today but it looks like Google wants to bring ads to everything. WSJ says: Advertising may be coming to your...

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Palindrone: Sound of Drones in Gaza

Palindrone is a work in progress documenting the drone created environment. palindrone (v1.0) from Mark Simpkins on Vimeo. Comes via Culture+Conflict with a tip of my imaginary hat to Nat Muller. About...

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GIFs to Connect Language to Emotion

MIT students are using gifs to map non-verbal human emotions. Travis Rich and Kevin Hu have channeled animated image sharing through a website called GIFGIF, an ongoing interactive project that...

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“1945-1998″ BY ISAO HASHIMOTO

This is a look at all the nuclear explosions on Earth between 1945 and 1998. It’s kinda long but totally worth it. It’s like watching nations speak to each other. Isao Hashimoto: “This piece of work is...

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“Moon Attracts All” by ispace Inc.

I’m not sure that this video is call “Moon Attracts All” (actually, not sure is mild, I have no idea at all) but that’s what it’s about. Well, that and a cockroach going to the moon. The two-minute...

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Dysco by Simon Russell

Dysco from Simon Russell on Vimeo. Dysco is a 3D experimental short by Simon Russell about synesthetic drones, neon dubstep and the surveillance state. To view the making-of go here:...

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