we're obsessed with denying the positive effects of mental difference to try and induce greater productivity amongst atomized individuals. conformity. we should be obsessed with constructing systems that allow for full freedom of creative exploration, leaving mundane modes of existence to machines and opening up *social* pathways for greater creative productivity.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/2013/11/22/creativity-madness-and-drugs

i kind of like the idea of life repeatedly evolving on planets on the cusp of destruction. humans < nature < universe.
http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/5832/signs-of-life-on-dying-planets

http://mitsha.re/1jBicXK
https://phys.org/news/2013-11-physicists-quantum-cheshire-cats-paradoxes.html

yeah. it's been clear for years that we need to not dump most of what we dump. but that provides for a level of inconvenience that the average north american won't stand for.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=only-half-of-drugs-removed-by-sewage-treatment

i've been sort of freaking out over parasites recently. nice to see a reminder that the relationship is sometimes symbiotic.
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-scavenging-fungi-friend.html

"science doesn't work because scientists aren't doing science". true on some level. but not the argument some would present it as.
http://www.nature.com/news/psychologists-strike-a-blow-for-reproducibility-1.14232

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2013/11/25/good-microbes-make-good-pets/

yeah. lots of things would be solved by understanding gravity. like gravity.
https://phys.org/news/2013-11-proton-radius-puzzle-quantum-gravity.html

maybe they’ll share the data with us imperialist pigs.
http://www.nature.com/news/china-aims-for-the-moon-1.14243

http://phys.org/news/2013-11-moon-nasa.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/2013/11/25/how-to-erase-bad-memories/
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/66/12/10.1063/PT.3.2212
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-japanese-firm-luna-solar-energy.html
http://inhabitat.com/japanese-corporation-plans-to-turn-the-moon-into-a-massive-solar-power-plant/
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/12012013/article/scientists-push-back-the-clock-on-early-human-finds
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/24/chinese_netizens_applaud_beijing_s_aggressive_new_defense_zone

played? right…..
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/25/how-amnesty-international-was-played-by-the-egyptian-junta/

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/25/chin-n25.html