and the brainscan says…

and the brainscan says…, originally uploaded by earthpages.

Are we being mislead by color enhanced images just as advertisers distort graph results with an unrepresentative scale? This should settle the score, once and for all!

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The invisible man?

Remember H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man?
No?
Well how about Star Trek’s Romulan cloaking device?
The key here is i-n-v-i-s-i-b-i-l-i-t-y and scientists are now saying it may become fact instead of fiction in the not too distant future.
It all has something to do with bending light waves around objects.
Don’t believe me?
Check out this article in Discover:
http://tr.im/iTbh
(from a tweet [...]

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Is an iPod part of your mind?

If you had an iPod, would it be part of your mind? That’s one of the odder, but surprisingly most relevant, questions being discussed here in Seoul at the World Congress of Philosophy.
» http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/03/philosophy.ipod?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews
That’s from an interesting article that I stumbled upon at another equally interesting blog » http://milindasquestions.com/

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Asimo – Honda’s answer to the Cylon monopoly…

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just slightly ahead of my time…

just slightly ahead of my time…, originally uploaded by earthpages.
What’s the news? Well, today I worked like a beaver adding the very best news feeds available in all sorts of innovative categories. Check out the “News” tab at earthpages.ca and earthpages.org!

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Is there life on Mars?

landing on mars…, originally uploaded by the last man on earth.
Public Domain Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
I don’t know if there is life on Mars but yesterday’s touchdown was some of the best TV I’ve watched in a long time! Check out more NASA pics here…
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html

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Are you up to tachyonic speed?

C. F. Fitzgerald, “Tachyons” pp. 421-423 cited in
Tachyons, Time Travel, and Divine Omniscience
Author(s): William Lane Craig
Source: The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 85, No. 3 (Mar., 1988), pp. 135-150
I remember once saying to a friend that the pop group The Clash could have had an influence on the music of Beethoven. She couldn’t really see what I was [...]

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total recall

total recall, originally uploaded by earthpages.
will mankind build on mars? i think it’s only a matter of time…

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einstein’s missing variable

einstein’s missing variable, originally uploaded by the last man on earth.
love is the answer… assuming, of course, you’re dealing with sane individuals…

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Sargon would like it…

Remember Sargon? He was that disembodied consciousness in Star Trek who resided in a glowing orb and decided to enter into Kirk’s body.
Well, now it looks like our very thoughts can influence a video game…

http://technology.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/Mind+games+headset+lets+brain+control+action+firm+says/News/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&newsitemid=headset-control&feedname=CBC-TECH-SCIENCE&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=True

Call me “old school” if you like. But I don’t think I’ll be rushing out to buy the headset.

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