*Yesterday, I had the privilege of exploring a human cadaver.
IAVI currently rents research lab space from a graduate medical facility in Brooklyn, though by the end of next week, we will be moving into bright, shiny new quarters at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, which was the largest military supply center during WWII, and is also [...]
My first Human Body
Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits
“When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, the small town began billing sexual-assault victims for the cost of rape kits and forensic exams.”Editorial Observer – Wasilla Watch – Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits
the news about this woman just keeps getting worse, doesn’t it?
MonkeyLectric!
MonkeyLectric from Jade Ajani on Vimeo.
Music by Jeffrey Jerusalem. Look for the LP in the coming weeks.
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
A friend just sent me this article, which I quite liked: Is Google Making Us Stupid? – published in the most recent Atlantic Monthly.
It speaks to my internet addiction, or my fear of that.
“For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows [...]
Tactile Sound DNA + powernap record cover workup
I spent the entirety of a breathtakingly clear weekend in a basement studio recording the first official Powernap release, I feel further supported in fancying wav forms as plastic sheets that one bends, stacks and stretches in 3d space. Well I had my mind thoroughly blown by this video today. I feel like it might [...]
We love the sun! Adventures in the Olympic Peninsula
Being the springtime journey of 2 bros and a dadinto the meeting of forest and sea.
Living in the Kingdom of Death.
Big Cedar Tree. You can attempt to grok this from the inside.
This is the sad coming out of Gabriel. This is we are climging the legends of the hidden temple. [...]
Oh Wow
Friends: Kim Williams-Guillen, the researcher I worked with in Mexico in 2006, has been published in Science! That’s really big, and I’m very proud of her. Her research was also written up in the New York Times’ science section. Wow! I don’t have a copy of the paper, but I’ll try to get one soon [...]
Dolphin Rescues Pygmy Whales, People Coo and Gurgle
I’m not saying this story about a bottlenose dolphin in New Zealand rescuing two stranded pygmy sperm whales isn’t awesome. I think it’s great. Brief summary:
Two pygmy sperm whales, a mother and a calf, beached and became disoriented in a bay on the coast of New Zealand. Rescuers (human) arrived and tried to help [...]
a word from tom robbins
Thoughts on Lilly
Sometime in the sixties, the term “far out” acquired a positive connotation. It still meant something or someone removed from the mainstream, but in those exploratory, innovative times that had come to be an accolade rather than an insult. In the context, then, I regarded Dr. John Lilly as the most [...]
reverse tolerance and lsd theory
a young man in my neighborhood recently shared a story with me about his experiences with the plant salvia divinorum, which he received as a birthday present. unfortunately for him, nobody took the time to discuss the reverse tolerance effect that salvia is known to have, leading to some short-lived chaos for this young gentleman. [...]