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Thursday, June 12, 2025 A New Cosmological Beginning Registration & Welcoming Reception (15:00 – 17:00) Conference Center Veranda Refreshments & Snacks (15:30 – 16:00) Opening Remarks (15:50 – 16:00) Cosmological Speed Friending (16:00 – 17:00) Session A Keynote Talks (17:00 – 19:00) Dinner (19:00 – 21:00) Marluso Restaurant — Friday, June 13, 2025 Cosmic Microwave Background Session B Invited Ta…

DSPod #206 - Foundational Reality of Minds - Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Essentia Foundation Embark on a thought-provoking journey into the realms of metaphysical idealism and artificial intelligence with Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, a distinguished philosopher and computer engineer. In this engaging long-form conversation, we delve into the intricacies of consciousness, exploring topics from the philosophica…

DSPod #203 - How Finance Capitalism Ruined the World - Dr. Michael Hudson & Dr. Steve Keen Dr. Michael Hudson is an American economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, former Wall Street analyst, political consultant, commentator and journalist. Dr. Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. …

DSPod # 167 & 168 - Debt, Empires, Oligarchs and a More Perfect State: Michael Hudson Dr. Michael Hudson is a professor of Economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, political consultant, commentator, and journalist. His career has focused on the study of debt, both external and internal, with an eye on what happens when the exponentially growing debts of a society outstrip the profits …

Bioelectric Morphogenesis, Cellular Motivations, and False Binaries with Michael Levin Watch on Youtube: Or listen to the Audio Version: Michael Levin 00:00 There's bioelectrical events, there's biomechanical events, there's biochemical events, all those things are happening at the same time. But what's really important to ask is, what is each layer doing? And what does each layer give us the opp…

Holy Stokes Pt 4 When Will rubbed his forehead Erin couldn’t take her eyes from the whites of his nails. They stood out against the black oil that streaked the backs of his hands like little headlights. He sighed. “Look, this thing has been on the road since the 70s. It’s got more than 600,000 miles on it. What do you want me to say?” “Well,” Erin started, not quite sure what he’d just said, buyi…

Holy Stokes Pt 3 REPORT WILDFIRES, insisted the sign that flew past the open window of the blue Volvo, its bleached wood catching the light like a shield left out in the sun. It was a relic of a more optimistic age, when the roads were still new, the people believed in each other, and you could call up the neatly-pressed ranger who had long ago set out on a great adventure - only to end up a desk…

Lisbon, Portugal: June 12-16th, 2025 ALEXANDER UNZICKER: General: chap. 3,5,7,9,10 chap. 1 VSL cosmology: chap. 1,3,4,5,7,8,9,10 chap. 4,5,6,7 Then, there are 2 scholary papers I attach (general on simplicity, adp for VSL) Then, there are some videos where I covered the material: General: Playlist VSL cosmology: GARETH SAMUEL: See the Pattern (YT Channel) Here is the link to the video I did start…

Interconnected Universe in Pop Sci The interconnected universe isn’t a new idea. Click image for source URL.

Holy Stokes Pt 2 Emerging from the dormitory, Will finds himself in a rustic kitchen with a tall ceiling of exposed wooden beams. Feeling only slightly sorry for himself, he pours a cup of coffee from the steaming percolator on the wood stove and, hearing the liquid boil as it touches the metal, moves the pot to the hearthstone before walking into the empty dining room. It smells abandoned, fille…

Holy Stokes Pt 1 From the soft dark he can hear the ring of chimes - quiet at first, just the deep edge of enormous forms, but gradually becoming celestial, timeless, holy. He can feel himself falling through the rosy glow of dawn, at it’s heart a pulsing seed of sound. His flailing, weightless limbs conduct the curves of sound into a rising tide. He can’t feel the wind on his skin, but it still …

the Elastic Atomic Web This blog follows a series on the history of the death of the luminiferous aether and opens a new series about the reconception of the physical universe, including quantum fields and spacetime, as a true material with evident elastic properties. This is not a new theory, but a reimagining of extant theory and mathematics. In this introductory piece, I’m first going to expla…

Why Is Light Speed Limited? Recently, we looked into the notion of time-travel and the notion of time itself. This investigation led to the realization that the laws inscribing the behavior of bodies in motion, including clocks, breakdown when their speed approaches that of light. Today I want to briefly talk a bit about the speed-of-light, and consider physical interpretations of what this limit…

Work it Harder. Make It Better, Do it Faster, Makes Us Stronger Last week: The Grocer on Elm Street The aisles of brightly colored packaging, the six gradations of organic, the thirty different breakfast cereals, professional branding, trial by focus group, career food scientists - these are new inventions in the scheme of Human events. As recently as the 1870s, the food industry didn’t exist. Ju…

Grocer on Elm Street The grocery store is a place that forces shoppers to decide what kind of people they want to be on the most literal level imaginable. The raw material stocked in neat pyramids gets picked, rung, bagged and carried home, where it transforms into living, breathing flesh. Selecting what to eat is a momentous occasion, since it literally decides what we will become. Despite the f…

The Mystery of Female Pleasure Back in 2014, sex researchers from the Kinsey research published some statistics about orgasm, taken from a survey of nearly 3,000 people. When they compared the rates at which single women and men orgasm during a sexual encounter, they found big differences. Men had an 85% likelihood of making it to the finish line, straight or gay, but less than a third of straigh…

Censorship of Plandemic Pt. 1 When a friend asked us to look into analyzing Plandemic, a ~20 minute documentary on the orchestrated nature of the COVID19 lockdowns, we were surprised to find that it wasn’t in any of the usual places. There were only links to criticism of the movie available on Google, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter. An afterimage of the documentary itself, a residual effect of algori…

Evaluating a Scientific Presentation: The Virome This week, we stumbled across a video that outlines a paradigm shift in the way that humans see viruses in the context of germ theory. The traditional explanation of disease is that it’s caused by microbial colonization of a healthy body. The immune system, then, is there to mount a defense against that pathogen. Since their discovery in the early …

Temperance of Group Rivalry This week, we YouTubed an interview with Dr. Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair - a Norwegian evolutionary psychologist (also available in podcast format). Though our conversation was largely centered on behavioral differences between men and women, there were some pieces from the conversation that were quite interesting, and constitute a larger theme that has come up in seve…

What is a Conspiracy Theory? This week, we’re going to try out something a little different. Rather than writing blogs on two separate topics, we (Nastia and Shilo) are going to have an open conversation about the ideas we stumbled into during this week’s Demystifying Science interview with author of Conspiracy Theories, Dr. Quassim Cassam. On the show, Micky & Quinn had a conversation with Dr. Q…