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February 21
Awesome. I can't wait to read Lainer's new book.
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Erik Davis has had a lot of very interesting podcasts recently on his show, Expanding Mind. I recently enjoyed listening to the Mark Pesce and RU Sirius interviews as well as the one with Richard Doyle, professor of (science &) Rhetoric at Penn Stat…
February 14
Unreal!
February 10
Looks interesting, i will check it out.
February 4
Anders Claassens added a blog post
A love of green may be a human universal. Deepening the palette of green scholarship, Bron Taylor proves remarkably to be both an encyclopedist and a visionary. ~ Jonathan Benthall, author of Returning to Religion: Why a Secular Age is Haunted by…
January 26
This is so amazing. I love it.
January 25

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Erik Davis’ Expanding Mind

Erik Davis has had a lot of very interesting podcasts recently on his show, Expanding Mind. I recently enjoyed listening to the Mark Pesce and RU Sirius interviews as well as the one with Richard Doyle, professor of (science &) Rhetoric at Penn State and Berkely and author of On Beyond Living, Wetwares and soon to be published The Ecodelic Hypothesis: Plants, Rhetoric and the Evolution of The Noösphere.

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Posted on February 14, 2010 at 7:46pm —

Anders Claassens

Recommended: Dark Green Religion by Bron Taylor



Dark Green Religion
by Bron Taylor


A love of green may be a human universal. Deepening the palette of green scholarship, Bro… Continue

Posted on January 26, 2010 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Anders Claassens

Symphony of Science - 'The Unbroken Thread' (ft. Attenborough, Goodall, Sagan)

"The Unbroken Thread" is the fourth video in the Symphony of Science series, and it features David Attenborough, Jane Goodall, and Carl Sagan. The clips used in this installment come from Carl Sagan's Cosmos, David Attenborough's Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, The Life of Mammals, The Living Planet, BBC Life, XVIVO Scientific Animations, IMAX Cosmic Voyage, Jane Goodall's TED Talk, and a clever Guiness Commercial. The themes present in The Unbroken Thread attempt to explore the wild divers… Continue

Posted on January 24, 2010 at 8:02pm — 1 Comment

Anders Claassens

The Secret Life of Chaos

Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand. It turns out that chaos theory answers a question that mankind has asked for millennia - how did we get here? In this documentary, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to uncover one of the great mysteries of science - how does a universe that starts off as dust end up with i… Continue

Posted on January 22, 2010 at 6:17pm —

Anders Claassens

The Brain That Changes Itself: Melbourne Connversations with Dr Norman Doidge

In this Melbourne Conversations event, Dr Norman Doidge, author of bestselling book The Brain That Changes Itself (which I highly recommend) discusses his research and relays strange and fascinating stories of the workings of the brain.

The discovery of neuroplasticity, that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains, even into old age, is the most important breakthrough in our understanding of the brain in four hundred years. Dr. Norman Doidge introduces principles we can… Continue

Posted on January 21, 2010 at 8:00pm —

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At 10:51am on January 16, 2010, Daniela gave Anders Claassens a gift
At 2:42pm on October 21, 2009, Aaron Claassens gave Anders Claassens a gift
Can you please stop leaving your sneakers in Transcure. I'm tired of putting them away.
At 1:42pm on September 23, 2009, Aaron Claassens said…
Hi Anders,

Something for you living room? I'm sure you will appreciate this.

Cheers
Aaron

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-08/12/farming-fish-and-fruit-in-your-living-room.aspx
At 5:21pm on May 25, 2009, Aaron Claassens said…
Hi Anders,

I thought you might be intrested in this article:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=self-experimenter-chemist-explores-new-psychedelics

Cheers
Aaron.
At 8:00am on February 2, 2009, Simon O'Neill said…
Hey Anders,

Thanks, good to be aboard.

Simon.
At 4:15pm on December 1, 2008, Aaron Claassens said…
"About ten billion humans are alive in the solar system, each mind surrounded by an exocortex of distributed agents, threads of personality spun right out of their heads to run on the clouds of utility fog — infinitely flexible computing resources as thin as aerogel – in which they live." ––; Accelerando
At 1:55pm on November 25, 2008, Aaron Claassens said…
No problem. I will leave it to you.
At 11:46am on November 25, 2008, Aaron Claassens said…
Hi Anders, Welcome to transcurve. If you need any help in setting up your account just let me know. We can chat online tonight.
 
 
 

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