Sprout of Office: Scientists Taught Spinach Plants to Send Emails About Hazardous Materials in the Soil

Re-posted from Mental Floss, written by Ellen Gutoskey While it’s unlikely that your email inbox would contain a message sent by spinach, it’s not impossible. In late 2016, engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published a study [PDF] in the journal Nature Materials detailing how they taught spinach plants to transmit automatic emails. The news recently re-circulated,… Read More Sprout of Office: Scientists Taught Spinach Plants to Send Emails About Hazardous Materials in the Soil

02/06/202105/31/2021 Adriana Siso

4 Simple Exercises to Strengthen your Attention and Reduce Distractibility

Reposted in its entirety from Ideas.Ted.com, June 8, 2018, by Rebekah Barnett Mengxin Li Our attention gets hijacked by everything from the stress in our lives to the ding of our phones. Neuroscientist Amishi Jha shows how we can cultivate the ability to focus on what really matters. “I think, therefore I am distracted.” If Descartes… Read More 4 Simple Exercises to Strengthen your Attention and Reduce Distractibility

01/28/202102/01/2021 Adriana Siso

The Future of Work

The year is 1999. For the sake of creativity, aerial coverage is needed in the making of a film. The crew and the cast are all set. The cameraman, ready with his tools, boards the helicopter and signals the pilot when ready. Upon signaling, the pilot takes off and they carefully hover around the scene… Read More The Future of Work

01/11/202103/25/2021 Lavin Alma1 Comment

LIFE IN FLUX – To Challenge Apathy in the 21st Century

“My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now”. Walter Gropius, architect, founder of the… Read More LIFE IN FLUX – To Challenge Apathy in the 21st Century

04/07/201911/02/2021 Adriana Siso

Out of this World – Santa Fe Institute launches an Interplanetary Project with Galactic Ambitions

Re-posted from The Santa Fe Reporter, July 12, 2017, by Julia Goldberg Science fiction lovers will probably recognize the galactic tribunal trope from any number of graphic novels, books or films. Santa Fe Institute President David Krakauer introduces the notion of cosmic judges rendering decrees on humanity as part of a thought experiment: “I’m so interested… Read More Out of this World – Santa Fe Institute launches an Interplanetary Project with Galactic Ambitions

07/14/201702/09/2021 Adriana Siso