Monday, December 13, 2010

...but i wanted to see her face again


the phone booth was next to the clinic a subway car thundered by rattling overhead extravagance at any cost anonymity during the war artificial terrain moments against the destruction 


more than 1800 bacterial genome-sequencing projects have been initiated and nearly 650 have been completed...For instance, the most complete bacterial model available to date – namely iAF1260, the latest model of Escherichia coli metabolism – includes references to more than 320 articles


wandered out of their memories now and walked among them i had arrived too late now i was not one of them seeing me they recognized what they had lost we were only the same when they recollected their pride...not to choose is a manner of choosing portrait of the margin index visions we reported...three versions in eleven languages i admit that i...when you say that it was written well that means that you can believe in it...it sounds like something that comes from reality...sabotaged by those who would have us do and be nothing betray


Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Monday, November 8, 2010

almost like the real clouds


mutagenesis protocols 

  Currently oil is being used at almost 1000 gallons per second, and it is estimated that world oil production will peak anywhere from 2009 to 2020.


... the world is currently using energy at a rate of over 200 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, but demand in 2050 could be as high as 30 terawatts, or almost 2.5 times current usage.  projecting mirrors facing them so that they could see their faces superimposed...
the decay of a low mass star...figures of the same character you don't think that is a curse i showed him the cards irrational currency exchanged silently in that rigor our hopelessness became a methodology now...within the shadow new times evoke new mediums of expression and portrayal...the meaning of time we tailored the network they dreamt of the new lands...they had had to abandon with the war...i know that other language systematic assumptions of the world he sold tapes of that...you had to suffer some overwhelmingly intense moment of bad fortune to make contact with her



Cultured meat technology is still in its infancy. Important challenges for the production of
1) Generation of suitable stem cell lines from farm animal species
2) Safe media for culturing of stem cells
3) Safe differentiation media to produce muscle cells
4) Tissue engineering of muscle fibers
5) Industrial bioreactors
6) Food processing technology


Possessions of the dead (life's only certainty mix) by motorcyclebalcony

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

two plus two equals five



watched her down that long hallway vague stunned look on her face remembering one of the last things he had said before he had left for the last time...there seems to be so many people in the world no...she didn't say anything...do you think it's possible that one of them can really meaning anything more than the rest of the others...do you think that people are really different from one another in any real sense...

to date, five natural metabolic pathways that perform carbon fixation in place of the classic rPP cycle have been identified:

1)the reductive tricarboxylic acid
2)the oxygen sensitive acetyl-CoA pathway
3)the extensively researched 3-hydroxypropionate cycle
4)the 3-hydroxypropionate/ 4-hydroxybutyrate cycle and
5) the recently discovered dicarboxylate-4-hydroxybutyrate cycle


liberation sex temple

the prayer was without interruption now...encountered the geometry of a space...like a gyroscope you spun on that axis

BSIP, which are presented in three major areas:
blind signal separation
and extraction (BSS=BSE),
independent component analysis (ICA),
and multichannel blind deconvolution
and equalization (MBD=MBE).


http://www.7hz.org/
The Benson opinion indicated that the article had to be a physical object, such as a lump of rubber (to be transformed from raw to cured state), a piece of leather (to be transformed from untanned to tanned leather),[11]  or a pile of flour (to be transformed from coarse to superfine particles).[12]  The Federal Circuit’s In re Schrader opinion, however, indicated that the article could be an electronic signal representative of a physical parameter, such as an EKG (“electrocardiograph signals representative of human cardiac activity “) or seismogram (“seismic reflection signals re (subtle feather)((crime scene reconstruct dogs feathers half price on the jewelry counter..telegram hourglass the map of blind darkness they blessed pennies...fate shape changed and mad without grace those diagrams of ghosttown misfortune)))

Saturday, August 21, 2010

flames silence and twilight vision ice and vision


"In the future, whether it's entering your home, opening your car, entering your workspace, getting a pharmacy prescription refilled, or having your medical records pulled up, everything will come off that unique key that is your iris," says Jeff Carter, CDO of Global Rainmakers. Before coming to GRI, Carter headed a think tank partnership between Bank of America, Harvard, and MIT. "Every person, place, and thing on this planet will be connected [to the iris system] within the next 10 years," he says.
dynamic recompilation (sometimes abbreviated to dynarec or the pseudo-acronym DRC) is a feature of some emulators and virtual machines, where the system may recompile some part of a program during execution


Cityscan 4.11 from Quayola on Vimeo.

bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to the anterior temporal lobes.Only participants who received left cathodal stimulation (decrease in excitability) together with right anodal stimulation (increase in excitability) showed an improvement in visual memory. This 110% improvement in visual memory \\

In Afghanistan, local and NATO forces are amassing biometric dossiers on hundreds of thousands of cops, crooks, soldiers, insurgents and ordinary citizens. And now, with NATO's backing, the Kabul government is putting together a plan to issue biometrically backed identification cards to 1.65 million Afghans by next May.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

the film of the assassination


2004
maize (Zea mays), 823 Mt;
rice (Oryza sativa,725 Mt;
wheat (Triticum aestivum\andTriticum durum 555 Mt;
soybean (Glycine max), 186 Mt;
barley (Hordeum sativum), 142 Mt;
sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), 59 Mt


Yield potential (Yp) is defined as ‘the yield of a
cultivar when grown in environments to which it is adapted,
with nutrients and water non-limiting, and with pests, diseases,
weeds, lodging and other stresses effectively controlled’

e St is the annual integral of incident solar radiation
(MJ m−2);
___________________________________
εi is the efficiency with which that radiation is
intercepted by the crop;
_________________________________
εc is the efficiency with which
the intercepted radiation is converted into biomass;
_____________________________________
k the
energy content of the plant mass (MJ g−1);
____________________________________
η is the
harvest index or the efficiency with which biomass is parti-
tioned into the harvested product


Interactive Generative Stage set whose parameters are interactively controlled by actors during the opera.[4] During the opera performance, the compute



6 LAS SOMBRAS DE SUS DESEOS from motivesbeyondreason.net on Vimeo.

the computational algorithm that decodes neuronal activity into commands that drive artificial actuators to perform movements

the population vector model, in which movement velocity is calculated as vector sums of single-neuron vectors pointing in the neurons' preferred directions and scaled by the neurons' firing rates...Another class of decoding methods work directly from individual neuron spikes instead of instantaneous firing rate estimates. In this approach, spike trains are modeled as discrete events or point processes and decoding can operate at millisecond time scales. The point process analog of the Kalman filter...called the stochastic state point process filter

Sunday, July 18, 2010

the faces like we were no longer familiar

metabolic engineering chapter 6--stephanopoulos, aristidou, nielson
6.1enhancement of product yield and productivity-
             6.1.1 ethanol  <lignocellulose for fermentation>
             6.1.2 amino acids (((glutamate; tryptophan;  alanine; threonine; isoleucine;
             6.1.3 solvents (((acetone, butanol, ethanol fermentation///1,3-Propanediol
6.2 extension of substrate range
             6.2.1 metabolic engineering of pentose metabolism for ethanol production
            (6.2.2 cellulose-hemicellulose depolymerization)
             6.2.3 lactose whey utilization
             6.2.4 sucrose utilization
             6.2.5 starch degraders
6.3 extension of product spectrum
             6.3.1 antibiotics
                        (cephalosporins, penicillins, tetracyclines)
             6.3.2 polyketides
             6.3.3 vitamins
                       (c; biotin; a)
             6.3.4 biopolymers
                       (polyhydroxyalkanoate; polyhydroxybutyrate; fructan; xanthan gum)
             6.3.5 pigments
             6.3.6 hydrogen
             6.3,7 xylitol
6.4 improvement of cellular properties
             6.4.1 alteration of nitrogen metabolism
             6.4.2 enhanced oxygen utilization
             6.4.3 prevention of overflow metabolism
             6.4.4 alteration of substrate intake
             6.4.5 maintenance of genetic stability
6.5 xenobiotic degradation
             6.5.1 pcbs
             6.5.2 benzene, toluene

Yeast cell factory: fishing for the best one or engineering it?            



shattered in a hundred thousand perspectives the city far above by which we emerge years that were the same day always saying something less with respect to the sun that could be seen streetlamps along the sidewalk to the horizon...standing by a newspaper machine in front of the convenience store broken hallways  you had created  yourself each jaguar was a shadow past present and future you wandered until it seemed like the night no longer had an ending the illusion of beginning in time...you looked at me with an expression that no one...could they cut the lines shut off and locked down...laws and roads sun that escaped passage all thought but none do you think that

                     





Constellation from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.

        the magnetization of a 2-phase magnetostrictive/piezoelectric multiferroic single-domain shape-anisotropic nanomagnet can be switched with very small voltages that generate strain in the magnetostrictive layer. Such devices can be powered by harvesting energy exclusively from the environment without the need for a battery.

Friday, June 25, 2010

terminal imposters with diagrams





LIMITING FACTORS TO PLANT GROWTH
------------------------

The properties of activase limit the photosynthetic potential of plants at high temperatures




the reduction in photosynthesis is linked to ribulose-1,5-bis-phosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) deactivation due to the inhibition of Rubisco activase (RCA) under moderately elevated temperatures.

we transformed the Arabidopsis rca mutant with a more thermostable, chimeric activase where a Rubisco recognition domain in the more thermostable tobacco activase was replaced with that from Arabidopsis. Transgenic lines expressing this activase showed higher rates of photosynthesis than the wild type after a short exposure to higher temperatures

When M. x giganteus and maize grown at 25 degrees C were transferred to 14 degrees Cof the two enzymes known to limit C(4) photosynthesis, increase of PPDK, not Rubisco content, corresponds to the recovery and maintenance of photosynthetic capacity

----------------------------
the ability of M. x giganteus to be productive and maintain photosynthetically competent leaves at low temperature does not result from low temperature acclimation or adaptation of the catalytic properties of Rubisco

PIFI is a novel component essential for NDH-mediated nonphotochemical reduction of the PQ pool in chlororespiratory electron transport.

she stared up the street it led to the houses that looked down onto the bay...the city flashed at the edge of the lattice...corner we paced their dream we bore their dream it would not look back...stars white illusions clasp apparitions...the ocean...we took all of the signature holding hands...in which all of the last moments were posed

gene therapy brain diseases 1994
tuszynski  /// ucsd
dwaine f. emerich /// cytotherapeutics
krzysztof bankiewicz   /// somatix
matthre during /// yale

subversion repository echo level

otolab, stills.a (live extract) from otolab on Vimeo.
#Cephalosporin from Cephalosporium/Acremonium
#Griseofulvin from Penicillium griseofulvum antifungal antibiotic useful in treating dermatophyte infections.
#Lentinan from Lentinus sp active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
#Schizophyllan from Schizophyllum commune useful in controlling Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus

Thursday, March 18, 2010

80 % , B$3 , + 3 7$ . #$ #$

Even in the age of miniaturization, getting a wireless video camera into a prosthetic eye isn’t easy.






led by MIT professor of electrical engineering John Wyatt, . The camera will send images to a microchip implanted in the eyeball that channels the input to the brain
Earth-men War on Frog-vampires for the Emancipation of the Human Cows of Earth's Second Satellite.


GML = Graffiti Markup Language from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

surface of panic and violence...triangle of air minimal genome hyperbolic geometry disparate testimonials they worked the gate x94 a ydr technician an interlock began to speak angrily closed the bulletin directory and turned in his chair to look him in the face him appraised the loss of temper coldly running his index finger across infrared...words in English slowly rose to life on the surface of the sunglasses...and the cops sold us the leak...those mainframe tapes...everyone that doublecrossed us is going to be killed......x94 answered him with total indifference...don't come in here thinking that 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pob31/

PSII reviews:


     ((Structure, dynamics, and energetics of the primary photochemistry of photosystem II of oxygenic photosynthesis.))  2002 Diner BA, Rappaport F.

((Structure, function, and assembly of Photosystem II and its light harvesting proteins.))2004 Minagawa J, Takahashi Y.

 ((Structure and functions of photosystem I and II) 2006 Nelson, N. Yocum, C.F

Among the 151 protein-based recombinant pharmaceuticals licensed up to January 2009 by the FDA and EMEA, 45 (29.8%) are obtained in Escherichia coli, 28 (18.5%) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 17 (11.2%) in hybridoma cells, 1 in transgenic goat milk, 1 in insect cells and 59 (39%) in mammalian cells


 
Lothar Eggeling

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

in life, we parted company long ago




Processing of neural signals by the BMIs can be divided into several stages. First, high-quality signals emanating from many neurons have to be recorded by an implant placed in the brain area of interest. Second, motor control signals have to be extracted from the recorded firing patterns of neuronal populations. Third, the extracted control signals have to enact motor behaviors in an artificial actuator, for example, a prosthetic device. Finally, the information about the actuator performance has to be delivered back to the subjects in some so
in the same way. They equate 
nature with spatial distance between the observer and the observed; and 
they see technologies as destroying this distance. As we
 
Closely connected, therefore, with the concepts of chance, probability, and information entropy, randomness implies a lack of predictability. More formally, in statistics, a random process is a repeating process whose outcomes follow no describable deterministic pattern, but follow a probability distribution, such that the relative probability of the occurrence of each outcome can be approximated or calculated.
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life cycle of spirulina: a mature trichome  broken into several pieces through the formation of specialized cells, necrida, that undergo lysis, giving rise to biconcave separation disks. the fragmentation of the trichome at the necrida produces gliding , short (two to four cells) chains of cells, and the hormogonia, which moves away from the parental filament to give rise to a new trichome

"the secret of that immolation different myths were a key...i saw you in an intersection between the tableaux like the night could be you and i...staring down toward the distant streets below...i possessed everything...i gave you a miraculous secret...that temple and those who died to create me...i possessed everything that they revealed to me...we constructed our desires together...the death of all those who can succumb to seduction...the death of all those who died to create it

Monday, March 8, 2010

>/esbozar//verdinglichen//surveiller>/


recombinant networking, the dream was standing by the swimming pool. inessential towers melt away into the air. all what i had almost remembered. white white white as far as the eye can see...ahead...a new world...material without being real...you see, i had been conditioned to the idea of words as        propE rty   .................

A Review Of The Best Robots of 2009

alienate a liberatory will in order to produce a market.

No one should misunderstand me when I write: "Betrayal is beautiful." Or be so cowardly to think- or pretend to think- that I am talking of cases in which it is necessary and noble, when it makes for the realization of good. I was talking of low betrayal. The kind that cannot be justified by any heroic excuse. The sneaky, cringing kind…It is enough that the betrayer be aware of his betrayal, that he will it, that he be able to break the bonds of uniting him with mankind. Love is indispensable for creating beauty. And a cruelty that shatters that love.



gesture based interface video editing:


\'instruments and sequences compulsion devotion to a slave user the consumers or zombies predicate and escape


Four types of signals, three based on EEG activity and
one on MEG activity, have been more thoroughly tested
in non-invasive BCI research. 1)A slow cortical
potential-SCP based spelling BCI has been developed
to allow severely paralysed patients to communicate
(Birbaumer et al. 1999), a system originally tested in
patients with intractable epilepsy (Kotchoubey et al.
2001)
. 2)Sensorimotor rhythms (SMRs) have been used as
the critical EEG oscillation for control of a BCI device
(Wolpaw et al. 2002; Wolpaw; McFarland, 2004). 3)Another
extensively tested BCI controller is the P300 event-related
brain potential (ERP) BCI developed by Donchin (Farwell
;Donchin, 1988
). SCP control and SMR (often called mu
rhythm) control are learned through visual and auditory
feedback and reward and need 5–20 training sessions
before significant production of SCPs or mu rhythms is
achieved, while the P300 BCI needs no training at all.

Despite the violence of the words in these sequences, there is all the same

Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time Neuralynx System December 21, 2009


Untitled from azxtlx on Vimeo.

Monday, February 22, 2010

the right words for what happened



CHROOCOCCIDIOPSIS FROM DESERT TO MARS
MARIA GRILLI CAIOLA AND DANIELA BILLI
Chroococcidiopsis show some features worthy of attention such as its capacity to survive to long-term A)desiccation and deprivation conditions of B)basic nutritional elements, such as nitrogen and phosphorous, and then to recover when water and nutritional elements are available. It can survive C) ionizing radiation by repairing DNA damages and it may be genetically modified
in order to enhance its resistance to extraterrestrial conditions. Chroococcidiopsis is able to live in conditions proximal to the limits of life on Earth. At the moment it is impossible to establish whether or not it will be able to survive to the limiting life conditions present on Mars

sense of oblivion caused by the network of transportation constitute the new public domain

Sustained administration of a 5-HT1A-R agonist or the serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) causes internalization of the 5-HT1A auto receptors in the raphé neurons but not the postsynaptic 5-HT1A receptors in the hippocampus. This is also believed to be the basis of action of the SSRIs.

field line advection in computational fluid dynamics: trained with
a complete script and given 150 leads a day

multisensory immersive interactive cinema capturing playback system

many experiments that have grown C3 field crops under elevated CO2 provide clear evidence that very substantial gains in yield may be achieved by inhibiting photorespiration
(Kimball 1983; Long 1998).
.
...hostility it's source and origin i remember and cannot change witness agitations curses burning in the smoke and fire black eyes glanced a storm on which lightning hatred flashed intermittent and fathomless photographs taped to the closet door he ran his aged palm slow slightly trembling over his white hair we were

1) How is water split?
2) What is the chemistry of charge accumulation in the tetra-Mn water-splitting apparatus?
3) What is the function of the inactive parallel electron branch in PSII?
4) Does it provide protection against over excited states?
5) What protein-cofactor interactions account for the high midpoint potential of the primary donor, P680, in PSII and how is energy trapped by the primary donor?

Sunday, February 14, 2010

importance to theater we invoked intelligences between

The photosynthetic potential and efficiency of plants can be limited by the activity of Rubisco over a wide variety of conditions...the maximal rate of the enzyme is very slow...Rubisco is not able to prevent oxygen from reacting with the ribulose bisphosphate...regulation of the activity of Rubisco when environmental conditions are not favorable may impede maximal performance


From Space Came Cor's Disc-city of Vada—Its Mighty, Age-old Engines Weakening— Its Horde of Dwarfs Hungry for the Earth!



MP3:The Dead Take Their Names

“The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness,

...The big opportunity is the promise that growing algae is 20 times more productive per land area than terrestrial crops.
The big challenge - as commercial algae growers know well - is the big cost. Investment and operating cost to achieve algal productivity is far higher than terrestrial crops.
Today algae is grown commercially for higher value products such as food and feed supplements and pharmaceutical extracts, selling for 10 to 50 times more than fuel....

...........one gets the intuition that using microrganisms to efficiently manufacture useful things more will be sort of inevitable if human civilization winds up continuing a few generations into the future. Creating an prokaryotic agriculture might not be prof
itable for the present but it should eventually be a part of the future.....

CYANOBACTERIA, bibliography:


read:
Algal Culturing Techniques ed. Robert A. Andersen (2005)
Algae: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology Laura Barsanti Paolo Gualtieri (2005)
Spirulina Vonshak (1997)
Spirulina in human nutrition and health / ed M.E. Gershwin, Amha Belay (2007)
***Algae and Cyanobacteria in Extreme Environments ed Joseph Seckbach (2007)
***The Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria (Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration) D.A. Bryant (1995)
((((****The Prokaryotes: Vol. 4: Bacteria: Firmicutes, Cyanobacteria ed Martin Dworkin))))

looking to read:
Handbook of Microalgal Culture ~ Amos Richmond
The Cyanobacteria: Molecular Biology, Genomics, and Evolution ed Antonia Herrero, Enrique Flores
Microalgae: Biotechnology and Microbiology (Cambridge Studies in Biotechnology)~ E. W. Becker

Algal Biotechnology Edited by Pravin Chandra Trivedi



B. A. Whitton, and M. Potts (ed.), The ecology of cyanobacteria. Kluwer Academic Publishers (2000)

Now then he makes a journey in his new house, and perceives at stated times, each time proceeded by a new ordeal and equilibration, the forces that surround him. Death he sees, and the Life of Nature whose name is Sorrow, and the Word that quickeneth these, and his own self -- and when he hath recognised these four in their true nature he passes to the altar once more and as the

Psychedelic Death Vomit (Slight Return) 3d, 2010 from Yoshi Sodeoka on Vimeo.


...obsessed by living culture for so many years, eventually it begins to look like a pretty dress on a young girl...when the girl gets old, the dress only looks silly. of course..."He took a drag of his cigarette and placed it back in the ashtray "...There are the political aspects of culture, the ways in which it influences the power that one group has over another...the ways that languages determine your persona and its thought. Power is such a labyrinth, no? When does one man deserve to have power over another? When do some words have more quality than others, some pictures more quality than others...some sounds...What makes us need to read something versus something else we reject as superficial or unimportant - What would happen if we did not express..."

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

the strands of the eclipse


screen cap from Genuine: The Tale of a Vampire
International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (InterACT) held a landmark videoconference last week to demonstrate new breakthroughs in cross-lingual communication. InterACT director, computer science professor Alex Waibel demonstrated domain-independent, speech-to-speech translation in a lecture, which was simultaneously translated from English to Spanish to German.

identity column...what they mistakenly believed was time...it's all the same the high and the low the pretension and the vulgar...something more subtle than the ordinary meanings of words...

connectome with machine learning, the researchers teach computers to learn by example. They feed their computer electron microscopic images of brain slices and manual tracings of the tangled connections between the neurons. The computer then searches for an algorithm that allows it to imitate human performance.

class-based method dispatch and lexically scoped variables
*************
Vaclov Smil: Feeding the World: How can we best feed some 10 billion people who will likely inhabit the Earth during the 21st century?

supply-

LAND (km2/per capita)/WATER (m3/per capita)/NUTRIENTS (nitrogen; phosphorus) /PHOTOSYNTHESIS

...in most agroecosystems water is the most limiting growth factor during most years (p39)

...of the roughly 250,000 described higher plants, about 30,000 species are known to be edible, some 7,000 of them have been actually used as food, only 150 have ever become important crops, and only fifteen species produce 90 percent of all food. The three leading cereal crops- wheat, rice, and corn- supply almost two-thirds of all food energy and slightly more than half of all protein derived from plants...(p.52)

demand-
total per capita food energy supply has increased with increasing affluence from less than 2,500 kcal/day to satiation levels between 2,800 and 3,000 kcal/day... (p.250)

LAND- an overwhelmingly vegetarian diet produced by high-intensity cropping would require no more than 700-800 m2/per capita a fairly balanced Chinese diet of the late 1900a- supplying about 2,800 k/cal per day with about 15 percent of this coming from animal foodstuffs...in contrast the Western diet, with large share of meat/dairy, claims up to 4,000 m2/per capita...but much of this is wasted (p 38)
************

Manipulation of Rubisco: the amount, activity, function and regulation.....Genetic modification to increase the specificity of Rubisco for CO2 relative to O2 and to increase the catalytic rate of Rubisco in crop plants would have great agronomic importance....

Since photorespiration seems wasteful, it would seem that decreasing the oxygenase/carboxylase ratio of RuBP carboxylase somewhat would be a logical method of reducing photorespiration and increasing net photosynthesis. This has not yet been accomplished. The attempts to do this and the problems that must be surmounted have been reviewed (Hartman and Harpel 1994; Spreitzer 1999). However, some biochemists...

I want to be a force for real good. I want to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start immediately to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I’d like to play a certain song and he’ll be cured. When he’d be broke, I’d bring out a different song and immediately he’ll get all the money he needed. But what these pieces are and what is the road to attain the knowledge of them… that I don’t know. The true powers of music are still unknown, to be able to control them must be, I believe, the power of every musician.


bad character from defetto on Vimeo.




leaf photosynthetic capacity
(i.e., maximal carboxylation rate, Vcmax,
maximal photosynthetic electron transport rate, Jmax,
and dark respiration, Rd)
was estimated

Thursday, January 21, 2010

the wind the outlines on the glass


use drugs to enhance their perception ...... (a marionette command) might set off an access sequence so that a slave ... People will choose predicates, which correspond to what is representational ..undermine control structure... cannot be accessed
on the level of philosophical inquiry, scientific theory,
feminist poli
tics, technological advancements, science fiction the phenomenon of stochastic resonance, where small amount of noise improves the detection of signals in non-linear sensors- what changes before and after the signal is transmitted...he glanced over to the ground and saw that there was an envelope that someone had pushed under the door. i wonder who the hell could've done that he thought...he picked up the envelope carefully tore it open at the edge

a system of lineages, whereby those who successfully receive the initiation (permission to practice) faculty for the realization of a particular skillful means
through this he attains the stability to free himself from the way of the inferior people around him. This brings him into opposition to them of course, but that is not wrong.

photo reproduced without permission from: http://excepter.podomatic.com/

content retrieval subversion

fue como su hubiera tercido en el diálogo un interlocutor más complejo...en algún punto de la tierra hay un hombre que es igual a esa claridad

Sexual attraction enhances glutamate transmission in mammalian anterior cingulate cortex...

Kainate Receptor-Mediated Synaptic Transmission in the Adult Anterior Cingulate Cortex...

Activation of mu opioid receptor inhibits the excitatory glutamatergic transmission in the anterior cingulate cortex of the rats with peripheral inflammation...

Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex: A role in reward-based decision making

Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression...Chronic stimulation of white matter tracts adjacent to the subgenual cingulate gyrus was associated with a striking and sustained remission of depression in four of six patients.

the epitome of a certain kind of celebrity-artist, a value lesson in what happens when the manufacture of fame in the service of increasing the monetary value of artificially rare products overtakes the art itself, which devolves into nothing but placeholders for this process


sketch made by Lebbeus WOODS & posted without permission


If, say, Syria’s Bashar Assad had TruePosition’s technology, could he use it to determine who’s participating in anti-government protests?

“Correct,” Varano says, “if it was deployed in that region.” He adds, however, “we’ve never run into anything like that.”

Varano won’t specify which governments use TruePosition’s LOCINT tools. “I have to be nebulous about where it’s actually being deployed,” he says. That includes inside the United States. “We do not disclose who is currently using TruePosition LOCINT,” Varano says, but adds, “U.S. govern