Dr. Temple Grandin's Official Autism Website Clay Shirky Clay Shirky (born 1964[2]) is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He has a joint appointment at New York University (NYU) as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Assistant Arts Professor in the New Media focused graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).[3] His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.[4] Education and career[edit] Shirky was the first Professor of New Media in the Media Studies department at Hunter College, where he developed the MFA in Integrated Media Arts program. In the Fall of 2010, Shirky was a visiting Morrow Lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Views[edit] In his book Here Comes Everybody, Shirky explains how he has long spoken in favor of crowdsourcing and collaborative efforts online. [edit]
18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently This list has been expanded into the new book, “Wired to Create: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind,” by Carolyn Gregoire and Scott Barry Kaufman. Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways. Creative thinking is a stable, defining characteristic in some personalities, but it may also change based on situation and context. Inspiration and ideas often arise seemingly out of nowhere and then fail to show up when we most need them, and creative thinking requires complex cognition yet is completely distinct from the thinking process. Neuroscience paints a complicated picture of creativity. As scientists now understand it, creativity is far more complex than the right-left brain distinction would have us think (the theory being that left brain = rational and analytical, right brain = creative and emotional). While there’s no “typical” creative type, there are some tell-tale characteristics and behaviors of highly creative people. They daydream. They “fail up.”
Cicada 3301: ¿el secreto mejor guardado de Internet? En una larga investigación para el Telegraph, el periodista Chris Bell se sumergió en el fascinante rompecabezas que ha tenido en vilo a los mejores criptógrafos del mundo durante dos años: Cicada 3301. Se trata de una serie de pruebas de codificación y cultura general de un grupo o de una persona que tiene recursos para retar sólo a los mejores en el arte del hacking, y, presuntamente, para reclutarlos. Imágenes con uno de cada 100 pixeles intercambiados, que al sumarse forman una url; incursiones en la deepweb, la zona oscura del Internet donde pululan los traficantes de órganos y las organizaciones terroristas; además de numerosos juegos de destreza para profesionales del código que aparecieron por primera vez en un foro de Internet bajo el siguiente mensaje: Hola. Estamos buscando por individuos altamente inteligentes. El mensaje estaba firmado por “3301″. Muchos analistas y criptógrafos profesionales se sintieron tentados, mejor dicho, llamados. Hola.
Secrecy Is the Key to the Next Phase of Social Networking | Wired Design Secret co-founders David Byttow and Chrys Bader want to create a more authentic internet. Image: Secret Over the past week, I’ve been getting a steady stream of push notifications alerting me that another one of my friends has joined the new social media app Secret. “Who could it be?” my screen asks each time, which is less an actual question and more an attempt to pique my curiosity. This is, of course, is the whole point of the app. Deep down we all want it, but earnestness on social media is embarrassing. Like Facebook and Twitter, Secret’s declared purpose is to connect people. It’d be easy to call the rash of anonymity-based apps a direct backlash to Facebook, but that isn’t quite right. A Safe Space for Squishy Feelings Authenticity on the web is a slippery idea. But Bader and Byttow like to believe there’s a place for a more authentic web, and they hope Secret will give rise to it. A secret someone in my circle shared. Unintended Uses
You Need To See This 17-Minute Film Set Entirely On A Teen's Computer Screen These words are probably unfurling inside one of many open tabs on your computer screen. Perhaps one tab is for work, one is for chatting, and another is for Twitter. You probably even have some others open for no particular reason. The 17-minute, mildly NSFW Noah is unlike anything you've seen before in a movie—only because it is exactly like what many of us see on our computers all the time. From the desktop photo of a young couple posing for the camera, we learn that Noah has a girlfriend. Lending the project authenticity is the filmmakers' attention to detail. Lest you think that watching some couple Skype sounds boring, though, this thing moves at the speed of an ADD-afflicted hummingbird, zooming in on key pieces of information as Noah learns them, before zipping off to follow what he does with the new intel. While the creators of the video figure out the next phase of its distribution, we are temporarily ceasing our stream of the film in this post.
as Social and Political Theory RJ Burrows, March 1995 Abstract For Fred Jameson cyberpunk represents 'the supreme literary expression if not of postmodernism, then of late capitalism itself'. This might well be so, but this paper examines the contention that cyberpunk represents more than just poetics. At this time of fin-de-millennium pessimism and the loss of the potency of visions of utopian transcendence and hope in a better future some social and cultural analysts have begun to turn to sources of inspiration outside of traditional social scientific and political discourses in order to try and make some sort of sense of our contemporary condition. The relationship between cyberpunk and sociology takes three broad forms. For Fred Jameson (1991: 419n) cyberpunk, the work of novelist William Gibson in particular, represents 'the supreme literary expression if not of postmodernism, then of late capitalism itself'. Reading cyberpunk as social theory tends not to be a unidirectional activity. Cyberspace Cyberbodies
Understanding Drugs and Addiction — King's College London We are all touched by addiction – personally, within our circle of family and friends, and within our community. Addiction and its related harms can be crippling for those affected and the people around them. But how does addiction develop? What can we do to treat it? We examine what happens when a drug enters your body and your brain and how your brain changes – how this process, can make recovering from addiction such a challenge. King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry is a world leader in the science and treatment of addiction. Each week, our teaching is supplemented by some of the world’s leading scientists who will present cutting edge neuroscientific research. By understanding addiction, we can shed light on the greater issues of self-control and choice. By the end of this course, students should be able to:
CV Dazzle: Camouflage from Face Detection Las frecuencias cerebrales y los estados de conciencia que las caracterizan El autoconocimiento podría ser la más lúcida herramienta existencial a nuestra disposición. El famoso adagio de Sócrates, “Conócete a ti mismo”, bien podría sintetizar la respuesta a cualquier pregunta posible que surja a lo largo de nuestras vidas. Es por eso que entre más familiarizado estás contigo mismo y con lo que sucede en tu interior dentro de los incontables planos que te conforman, probablemente estarás más cerca de alcanzar tu fin ‘máximo’ –generalmente asociado a la felicidad, la plenitud, o la paz interior. Y en este sentido, si aún no lo has hecho, tal vez sea buen momento de encontrarte con las frecuencias que oscilan en tu cerebro. Las frecuencias cerebrales se refieren a los patrones de oscilaciones neurales que se registran dentro del sistema nervioso central. Beta (12-30Hz) Es la frecuencia más común en el cerebro de un adulto promedio mientras está despierto. Alpha (7.5-12Hz) Theta (4-7.5Hz) Delta (0.5-4Hz) Conociendo las frecuencias
¿Una ciencia ficción capaz de crear el futuro? Uno de los autores de ciencia ficción más reconocidos de los últimos tiempos, Neal Stephenson, ha hecho un reciente llamado a generar una ciencia ficción más optimista, que vaya más allá de los recurrentes escenarios apocalípticos y las distopias deletéreas que dominan el género, para imaginar las futuras grandes empresas del hombre y dilucidar posibles soluciones al predicamento existencial. Stephenson incluso ha creado el proyecto Hieroglyph cuyo fin es estimular la creación de obras de sci-fi que avancen en esta vertiente, con la esperanza de ver nuevos Julio Verne. La propuesta de Stephenson puede resultar un tanto ingenua desde el punto de vista del gran arte, el cual supuestamente no acepta ninguna limitante o constricción además de su propia naturaleza e inquietud –y si estos escenarios decadentes y cataclísmicos permean es porque esto es lo que atañe al intelecto actualmente, esto es lo que transmite el mundo para ser reproducido en el gran espejo de la mente.