Link: 26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong.
A cognitive bias is something that our minds commonly do to distort our own view of reality. Here are the 26 most studied and widely accepted cognitive biases.
Myth creation is a funny thing, Its very different from the construction of normal stories or narratives.
Myths must live on when you look away, they must breathe and live and fight for existence. In some ways they must already exist and wait for the right eyes to look upon them and see that they are ready and their time has come.
A group of incredible artists have joined myself and FP to look upon Terra Incognita and see that this Myth is now alive.
Terra Incognita is Open Source and each artists working within its landscape are wiping away the dream like clouds to see how they exist within the various realms of this Myth.
Terra Incognita will exist in solid form from the 31st of March 8pm as a colossal meta event that has broken through to this version of reality.
The construction of the next world has begun.
Terra Incognita
1. An unknown land; an unexplored region: "a vast and virtually final terra incognita left to terrestrial explorers".
2. A new or unexplored field of knowledge.
FoolishPeople are looking for performance artists, musicians, d.j’s, artists, poets, writers, dancers, actors, burlesque performers, digital artists, filmmakers and organisers to collaborate with us to perform and exhibit at ‘Terra Incognita’ a unique Meta-Event that FoolishPeople is hosting at the 491 Gallery, London in late March.
The end of time.
The death of culture
The journey into the unknown and how it reflects our journey as a species into the next crucial stage of development or demise.
We’re looking for artists who can use FoolishPeople’s open source myth of ‘Terra Incognita’ to cultivate and develop their own art.
To collaborate and perform or for more information, please contact FoolishPeople via art@foolishpeople.org
www.491gallery.com
The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (Glast) has been described as an "extreme physics" laboratory.
As its name suggests, Glast will detect the emissions of gamma rays in space. Gamma rays are the most energetic form of radiation known to science.
Other targets for Glast include pulsars - rotating neutron stars which emit radio waves - as well as the remnants of exploded stars, and galaxy clusters.
It seems the universe is us and we are the unviverse.
The findings support prior research that suggested most living things, including plants, release light. Since disease and illness appear to affect the strength and pattern of the glow, the discovery might lead to less-invasive ways of diagnosing patients.
The Following fits in well with the concept of Retroactive enchantment.
New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous Aymara people indicates a reverse concept of time. Contrary to what had been thought a cognitive universal among humans – a spatial metaphor for chronology, based partly on our bodies' orientation and locomotion, that places the future ahead of oneself and the past behind – the Amerindian group locates this imaginary abstraction the other way around: with the past ahead and the future behind.
Appearing in the current issue of the journal Cognitive Science, the study is coauthored, with Berkeley linguistics professor Eve Sweetser, by Rafael Nunez, associate professor of cognitive science and director of the Embodied Cognition Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego.
One of the great scientific experiments of our age is now fully underway.
A German/UK team has put the giant GEO 600 gravitational wave detector in a continuous observational mode. The Hanover lab is trying to detect the ripples created in the fabric of space-time that sweep out from merging black holes or exploding stars.
Success would confirm fundamental physical theories and open a new window on the Universe, enabling scientists to probe the moment of creation itself.
"The basis of this science formed the storyline to FP's 02 project The Singularity"
Recent records suggest they have become brighter, more frequent and are being seen at lower latitudes than usual. Scientists cannot say for sure but they suspect human activity may be altering the conditions in the mesosphere that drive the clouds' formation.
In 2002, Gary McKinnon was arrested by the UK's national high-tech crime unit, after being accused of hacking into Nasa and the US military computer networks.
This thing was hanging in space, the earth's hemisphere visible below it, and no rivets, no seams, none of the stuff associated with normal man-made manufacturing.
Sorry I havent been around these parts for the last couple of weeks. I have been busy with the rest of FP working away on the creation of Weaponised Art for Cycle III of Dark Nights of the Soul.
Just what Weaponised Art is will be revealed on the 14th April at The Horse Hospital in Emergence. I will reveal that a noumenal cleaning kit is always present to disinfect the multi coloured plasma from our third eyes when working in the FP clean environment.
In the mean time I would like to wish you all a very Happy Fools Day.
Much Love.
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The 'double layer thruster' is a new kind of ion drive which could give much more power than existing versions. It works by accelerating charged particles between two layers of argon plasma, gas where the atoms have been stripped of electrons. Esa says it has 'proven the principle', and will proceed with simulations and perhaps bigger prototypes. Esa already uses an ion drive on its Smart 1 Moon probe, and the US space agency Nasa deployed one on Deep Space 1, which flew out to Comet Borrelly in 2001.
The generators emit a soundwave between three and 30 megahertz and Stevens claims the Russians invented the storm-creating technology back in 1976 and sold it to others in the late 1980s. Stevens says the clouds formed by the generators are different than normal clouds and are able to appear out of nowhere and says Katrina had many rotation points that are unusual for hurricanes.
At least ten nations and organizations possess the technology but Stevens suspects the Japanese Yakuza created Katrina in order to make a fortune in the futures market and to get even with the U.S. for the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. Stevens will discuss the storm creation theory tomorrow night (Sep. 9) on an internet radio show at www.thesciencedetective.com
(Hmm well that lets bush off the hook then)
Scientists are only now starting to recognise the astonishing size reached by pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs.
New discoveries in the Americas suggest some had wingspans of 18m (60ft).
But there was nothing ugly about the way they moved through the air, according to expert Dr David Martill, of the University of Portsmouth.
Scientists say they have been able to monitor people's thoughts via scans of their brains.
Teams at University College London and University of California in LA could tell what images people were looking at or what sounds they were listening to.
The US team say their study proves brain scans do relate to brain cell electrical activity.
The UK team say such research might help paralysed people communicate, using a "thought-reading" computer.
(Maybe I'm a complete paranoid but this just makes me worry about the future thought Police applications this could be applied to.)
Will the recently discovered 10th planet be seized upon as proof of the arrival of Planet X? The fabled planet mentioned in various phrophecies. Most recently in 2012: Appointment With Marduk by Burak Eldem and also Planet X in Bible code by Tim Mc Hyde.
Astronomers in the United States have announced the discovery of the 10th planet to orbit our Sun.
Professor Dawkins, the renowned Selfish Gene author from Oxford University, said we were living in a "middle world" reality that we have created.
It's one of sci-fi's favorite storylines: Earthlings load up a rocket ship and move to the moon.'But Chip Proser is among those who believe it's time for scientists to make the fantasy come true. Proser's new documentary, Gaia Selene , suggests that colonizing the moon isn't just a lark, but the best way to save humanity.
'The moon, the film argues, will provide the Earth with infinite clean, cheap energy. Our ailing globe will stabilize. Wealth and good fortune will spread throughout the planetary system.'
Yes please, anything to get off this rock. Either that or I can give you a list of people to take there and leave?
Dr Alexander Shulgin is a psychopharmacologist. In fact he is the psychophamacologist. Timothy Leary described him as one of the 20th century's most important scientists.
Dr Shulgin is the creator of some 200 psychedelic compounds. You name it, he has made and personally tested them all. From Stimulants to depressants, aphrodisiacs and hallucinogens. This mans mind has traveled further than any other human that has lived. He thinks he has probably had more than 4,000 psychedelic episodes in the course of his work. That constitutes approximately 12 years of his life.
Dr Shulgin was in the UK yesterday for Drugs the next twenty years. This conference collected the worlds visionary thinkers to take a bold look into drug use trends over the next twenty years. I'm looking forward to hearing some of the transcripts from this conference as soon as they are made available, but in the mean time I may ask Dr Shulgin a question.
Researchers speculate that time travel can occur within a kind of feedback loop where backwards movement is possible, but only in a way that is "complementary" to the present.
In other words, you can pop back in time and have a look around, but you cannot do anything that will alter the present you left behind. The new model, which uses the laws of quantum mechanics, gets rid of the famous paradox surrounding time travel.
(A million geeks let out a collective sigh of pleasure, as they ejaculate to the knowledge that they may yet become Dr Who.)
Jack Parsons was one Hell of a guy, and not just because he might have been the Antichrist.
He was an acolyte of Aleister Crowley, an employee of Howard Hughes, a victim of L. Ron Hubbard, and an enthusiastic phone buddy to Wernher Von Braun. He was an only child, his adulterous dad booted by his angry mom. In seeking father figures and brotherhood, he became a vital link in two mighty chains in human history: rocketry and ritual magic. His science was built on intuition, and his magic on experiment.
Though obscured by wild rumor and sinister presumptions, Parsons’ reputation has survived, clandestinely, among devotees of rockets and of magic. Those passions are united, notes Parsons’ new biographer George Pendle (a science writer for the London Times), by their “rebellions against the very limits of human existence.”
Find the full article at Reason Online.
Images taken in infrared light show a circular feature roughly 30 kilometers (19 miles) in diameter that does not resemble any features seen on Saturn's other icy moons. Scientists interpret the feature as an "ice volcano," a dome formed by upwelling icy plumes that release methane into Titan's atmosphere. The findings appear in the June 9 issue of Nature.
"Before Cassini-Huygens, the most widely accepted explanation for the presence of methane in Titan's atmosphere was the presence of a methane-rich hydrocarbon ocean," said Dr. Christophe Sotin, distinguished visiting scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
If a pregnant woman is exposed to a pesticide at the wrong time, the study suggests, her children, grandchildren and the rest of her descendants could inherit the damage and diseases caused by the toxin -- even if it doesn't involve a genetic mutation.
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is now 13.92 billion kilometers (8.7 billion miles) from the Sun and has traversed the "termination shock," part of the frontier zone between the Solar System and interstellar space, University of Iowa physicist Don Gurnett says.
The encounter was recorded by a plasma-wave instrument aboard the ancient spacecraft, which faithfully relayed the data back to Earth, where it was picked up by the antennae of
NASA's Deep Space Network.
"Termination shock" is the field in deep space where interstellar atoms crash at brutal speeds into the energy stream released from the distant Sun.
A snippet of the recording -- a hiss and series of enigmatic clicks -- can be heard here.
The users must first connect to Internet with their cell phones, and then register information of their dogs such as the breed and age. The service will then record the dog's bark.
The owner will receive text messages telling them how their pet is feeling, such as "I am happy" or "I am frustrated."
The service, which will begin on Friday, will also translate basic messages into dog sounds. The service will cost about one dollar.
More than half of 48 million South Koreans use cell phones, and many of them use mobile phones with advanced features such as mobile banking, satellite navigation and high-speed Internet.
Highly focused X-rays produced at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were used last week to begin deciphering the parts of the 174-page text that have not yet been revealed. The X-rays cause iron in the hidden ink to glow.
"One of the delightful things is we don't know what it's going to say," said William Noel, head of the Archimedes Palimpsest project at the Walters Art Gallery.
Scholars believe the treatise was copied by a scribe in the 10th century from Archimedes' original Greek scrolls, written in the third century B.C.
It was erased about 200 years later by a monk who reused the parchment for a prayer book, creating a twice-used parchment book known as a "palimpsest." In the 12th century, parchment — scraped and dried animal skins — was rare and costly, and Archimedes' works were in less demand.
Because the cells reflected the actions that the monkey observed in others, the neuroscientists named them "mirror neurons."
Later experiments confirmed the existence of mirror neurons in humans and revealed another surprise. In addition to mirroring actions, the cells reflected sensations and emotions.
"Mirror neurons suggest that we pretend to be in another person's mental shoes," says Marco Iacoboni, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. "In fact, with mirror neurons we do not have to pretend, we practically are in another person's mind."
Since their discovery, mirror neurons have been implicated in a broad range of phenomena, including certain mental disorders. Mirror neurons may help cognitive scientists explain how children develop a theory of mind (ToM), which is a child's understanding that others have minds similar to their own. Doing so may help shed light on autism, in which this type of understanding is often missing.
What is thought to be the UK's only space impact crater has been mapped in detail in 3D for the first time.
The so-called Silverpit structure lies several hundred metres under the floor of the North Sea, about 130km (80 miles) east of the Yorkshire coast.
The new pictures show a spectacular set of rings sweeping out around a 3km-wide (1.8 miles) central hole.
Researchers report their description and interpretation of the images in the Geological Society of America Bulletin. Dr Simon Stewart and Phil Allen detail how the crater's features would have developed from the cataclysmic fall of an asteroid or comet about 60-65 million years ago.
A fireball which bears all the hallmarks of one of the universe's frightening creations has formed in New York, scientists claim. But there's no need to panic - yet. This manmade version is not set to swallow anything - except, perhaps, the science rule book.
It was created after beams of gold nuclei were smashed into each other at a rate close to the speed of light. The intense heat generated forced the beams to break down into particles and form a ball of plasma about 300million times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
Some particles were absorbed by the fireball in the same way that black holes absorb matter. But researchers had to be quick to measure what was going on - it lasted for just 10million billion billionths of a second.
'I know what you're thinking — in a very literal sense, actually. You're wondering how I penetrated your mindshield. And I know that you're trying desperately to disconnect me by switching off the power to your computer. It won't work, Charlie. I've overridden your motor control areas, and right now you're totally paralysed.
Ah, now you see the danger. Far too late, I'm afraid.
It all seemed such a good idea, didn't it? Controlling your computer by the power of your mind? It never occurred to you that it might cut both ways. The adverts play up the advantages of installing a 'telepathic interface', don't they? They tell you that it will endow your mind with ESP, psi, supernatural powers, whatever. So, like everyone else, you had an Extel neurochip implanted in your brain, connecting you to the Espernet.
It's clever technology. True telepathy —
direct transfer of thoughts from brain to brain — simply can't work,
because everyone's brain is wired up differently. There's no common
format for thoughts. So the engineers invented one.
The Extel chip
samples the sender's cognitive wavefunction and uses one of the
standard cognitive conversion protocols to encode it as a matrix of
neural qubits. The matrix can then be transmitted like any other item
of quantum cryptography.
The recipient's embedded neurochip transforms
the matrix back into a cognitive wavefunction that is compatible with
the architecture of their brain. Exchanging messages may feel like
thought transference, but a lot gets lost in translation.'
IAN STEWART-Play it again, Psam
The time has finally come to unleash your musings and random thoughts upon the universe:
For just $3.99 a minute you can make a phonecall that will be routed through a transmitter and sent into outerspace via a dish in Connecticut, US. The service is run by a group of engineers, the Civilian Space Exploration Team, that launched the first civilian rocket into space on 17 May 2004.
Eric Knight, president of the company, says that a large radio receiver situated on a distant planet might be large enough for an alien civilisation to receive the calls. The company is not aiming its antenna at specific stars with the potential to harbour life. Rather, they have opted to track across the Milky Way galaxy to cover a host of nearby stars.
(Christopher Rose at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, has studied the energy efficiency of beaming radio signals to outer space. He calculated an estimate that, at best, the signal from the phone calls could only be properly received about two light years away. The nearest star to our solar system is about four light years away...)
Humans have been broadcasting radio waves for the better part of a century. "Anything you want to broadcast - that's fine," says Fred Walter, an astronomer at Stony Brook University, New York, US. "If you want to do it, you're not hurting anybody. It's just adding to the noise and the clutter." The company is not monitoring the phone calls to space but, on its website, people are asked to be "good Earth Ambassadors". Knight adds: "I think people should use common sense and judgment, too."
Since the alien hotline was turned on, talktoaliens.com has fielded hundreds of calls, averaging about three minutes each. The company is also working on a way to send people's emails, digital photos and videos into the void.
Found at: newscientist.com
The journey down in the lift lasts barely a minute, but is the closest thing on Earth to travelling into another dimension. At the bottom of the shaft is a well lit tunnel that stretches as far as the eye can see, until its barely perceptible curve takes it around a distant corner. This is no ordinary tunnel. It carries no trains or gas pipes and is built in a perfect circle, running for 17 miles about 100 metres below the western suburbs of Geneva, squeezed between the lake on one side and the imposing Jura mountains on the other.
The only traffic passing through this tunnel when it opens for business will be high energy beams of subatomic particles. By smashing the particles together, scientists want to recreate conditions found in the earliest moments of the universe, billionths of a second after the Big Bang. By peering at what emerges, they hope to better understand the 14bn years that followed.
David Adam, science correspondent for the Guardian, explains more about his trip to the tunnels under Geneva.
I found the following article over at new scientist, It's nice when people look at you odd when you try to predict something for the future through your writing and then Science comes along and backs you up. This isnt the first time this happened on Ruined Steel.
And From Ruined Steel
VAST
"I can feel the Nanite-Deactivators inside me turning off my vital organs with designer viruses and micro bomblets"
The Scotsman
Thu 2 Sep 2004
Dr Dan Wertheimer, a radio astronomer at the University of California (Berkeley) and the chief scientist for the project, said: "It is the most interesting signal from SETI@home. We are not jumping up and down, but we are continuing to observe it."Named SHGb02+14a, the possible alien communication has a frequency of about 1420 megahertz - one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, readily absorbs and emits energy.
Some astronomers have suggested that aliens trying to announce their presence would be likely to transmit at this frequency, and SETI researchers regularly scan this part of the radio spectrum.
The unexplained signal appears to be emanating from a point between the constellations of Pisces and Aries, where there is no obvious star or planetary system within 1,000 light years, and the transmission is also very faint.
For reference, this is a link to an explanation of the famous Arecibo message which was sent out by SETI in 1974 towards M13, a globular star cluster 21,000 light-years away. If this tentative message is comparable to our own, then we could expect 20 times more confusion on E.T.'s end at M13. I wonder if our scientists in Berkeley will see things this way?
BBC News...
British scientists have been given permission to perform therapeutic cloning using human embryos for the first time.The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted the licence to experts at the University of Newcastle.
They are investigating new treatments for conditions including diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. The controversial decision could open a new era of research by scientists looking for remedies for diseases.
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