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Walking With The Beast
by Nick Glossop on March 24, 2013
c/o Charles Fréger < < Wilder Mann Image of The Savage
The bear is the wild man’s close counterpart—in some legends the bear is his father. A beast that walks upright, the bear also hibernates in winter. The symbolic death and rebirth of hibernation herald the arrival of spring with all its plenty. For festival participants, says Fréger, “becoming a bear is a way to express the beast and a way to control the beast.”
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OK Then, What DOES Buy You Happiness?
by Nick Glossop on December 20, 2012
Money And The Science Of Giving
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1000 Words, 1000 Days: Day 351 – Space-Boinking In The 21st Century!
by Marty Schwartz on December 16, 2012
Yesterday I wrote about religion. As such, it’s only fair that I devote today’s article to science.
Ever since the first man fluttered above the atmosphere into the majestic shimmering garden of space, he wanted to know if he could have sex there. For ages, NASA wouldn’t say a word about whether or not this was ever even mentioned at a meeting of top scientists. But now …
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Altered States: Booze v. Weed
by Nick Glossop on November 21, 2012
ASAPScience lays out the neuroscience of alcohol and, after the break, marijuana.
They cover a fair number of off-color topics; perhaps we should start a write-in campaign to get them to explain the physiology (and anthropology) of butt-chugging. …
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Lana Wachowski enters the public sphere as a filmmaker
by Michelle Lovegrove Thomson on October 30, 2012
Lana Wachowski–one half of the sibling team responsible for directing The Matrix and Cloud Atlas (with Tom Tykwer)–has emerged from nearly 12 years of media avoidance to speak about her experiences as a transgendered woman, and as a filmmaker interested in preserving a “private civic life”.
In an acceptance speech delivered at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual gala dinner in San Francisco, Wachowski explains that being able to circulate …
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Hominid
by Nick Glossop on October 1, 2012
Hominid from Brian Andrews on Vimeo.
Hominid is an animated teaser based on the Hominid series of photo composites by Brian Andrews. The series has been exhibited internationally, including at SIGGRAPH, in the Hong Kong Exhibition Center, and at numerous galleries. This animated teaser was produced at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts.
h/t The Andrea Channel…
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Cheating And The Science Of Confession
by Nick Glossop on September 23, 2012
For more of the always engaging Dan Ariely, watch the lecture in its entirety after the break. …
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What is Slow Violence (at Five-Minutes-to-Midnight)?
by Andrew Loewen on August 29, 2012
Violence is sudden; violence is fast. Violence is bullet, fist, crashing glass. So what can it mean to speak of “slow violence”? At the interpersonal level, slow violence might conjure something like the steady incremental pain of abuse, a relentless emergency rendered as normal, everyday life. Rob Nixon has coined the term as a way of thinking about pollution, toxicity, and anthropogenic climate change, the human effects of which are …
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Enbridge oil erases 1000km of island landmass to demonstrate safety route!
by Michelle Lovegrove Thomson on August 16, 2012
Enbridge has unveiled a PR video in a bid to sway public opinion on their possibly disastrous plan to stretch the Northern Gateway Pipeline across land we’d rather not bathe in heavy crude. Apparently the only way they could make it look like a safe and viable plan is to erase islands from the Douglas channel.
According to an recent article on the David Suzuki Foundation website by Lori Waters, a specialist …
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