Archives for June, 2007

Man With an Extended Mind


Documentary film maker, Jes Benstock, met up with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake a few months ago. Benstock was making a short documentary about Dr. Sheldrake and his work on the extended mind. They take part in a series of Sheldrake’s experiments to see if anything really happens. Can we tell if we’re being stared at from [...]

The Last Mimzy


Only occasionally do I see a movie so good that I feel compelled to write about it. I saw The Last Mimzy over the weekend and it is a beautiful story; it’s a story of hope and the simple love of a child. It is also a story of how interconnected we are to the [...]

Interesting Internet


Rise of man theory “out by 400,000 years”
Our earliest ancestors gave up hunter-gathering and took to a settled life up to 400,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to controversial research.

Science of the Soul? “I Think, Therefore I Am” Is Losing Force
For many scientists, the evidence that moral reasoning is a result of physical traits [...]

Very Interesting Internet


The Greatest and Most Unusual Travel Photo of All Time? - Everything about the image is just so amazing: The poof-y shapes of the clouds in the background…

100-foot deep Andes lake disappears - A five-acre glacial lake in Chile’s southern Andes has disappeared — and scientists want to know why…

No More Black Holes? - A [...]

Not Nautis Matthew


Here’s the latest from Non-Nautis Matthew…

Kerry Has a Baby! (Actually His Wife Did)
For those of you that don’t know, Kerry (aka Ferris Bueller) always dreamed of being a father. He spent several years of high school and college trying…

HL7 Data Mapping Help
Recently over on the Neotool blog, David Shaver wrote about how data mapping to [...]

The Tetris Effect


As the old saying goes, “we are what we eat.” We are also what we think about. Ever wake up in the morning (or the middle of night) thinking about work, school, or maybe a book you’ve been reading or a video game you’ve been playing? I think we have all done this. I used [...]