Enzymind Labs

Thanks for the email on the spam bots Mark. They're insidious. I turned off all anonymous posting. I will post more on general enzymind stuff later.

 TED Video which speculates on the next 5000 days of the web. Infers connections between web and brain strucutre interconnectivity.

Also a nice fluid dynamics video of experiments being done on the interntational space station in micro gravity.

Stumbled upon a video clip demonstrating 'structured illumunation' microscopy which gives a 2x increase in optical resolving power past the usual diffraction limited 200nm feature size dictated by 1/2 wavelength of the smallest visible light ~400nm. It uses compuational image processing of moire patterns created by illuminating the sample with 2 or more gratings at various offsets to each other.

I've been reading a lot of material developed by Alan Kay (e.g. his writings), and others who have been influenced by Kay's vision of what operating systems and software should look like to create a revolution in the way people, in particular children, learn.

Still fun to see an new image show up in the side bar. Pa caught my attention Mark its a good one. Seems to depict, for me, looking at the sun from underwater, while a bit drunk. Would make a good logo maybe for orange juice I particularly like the swastika origin an ancient archetypal symbol with records going to Egypt and sun god idolatry before that guy usurped it. 

This ScienceDaily item touches on the relationship between mood/affect and creativity: 

Video Games Can Make Us Creative If Spark Is Right

David Brooks wrote a spot-on opinion column in the NY Times today, "The Alpha Geeks ". Brooks is an influential journalist, button-down political pundit, and cultural commentator.

Funny you mentioned this "moire" type animation trick. The last couple weeks I've been thinking about a particular motion illusion: