For examples of reality™, look below:Tumblr (3.0; @therealityinstitute)http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzwurlHoxA1qc6m2yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My favorite things are things that look like other things</p>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18199608318http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18199608318Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:24:10 -0500<a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/google-to-sell-terminator-style-glasses-by-years-end/">Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's End</a>: <blockquote><p>By NICK BILTON, <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/google-to-sell-terminator-style-glasses-by-years-end/" target="_blank">nytimes.com</a></p> <p>Google is cur­rent­ly mak­ing a pair of glass­es that will be able to stream infor­ma­tion to the wear­er’s eyes in real time.</p> </blockquote> <p>When I predicted this concept to Ben, I said that people would be able to watch live basketball games where the players could be on fire like in NBA Jam and you’d be able to see the ball ignite with your AR glasses (tho, I think it was an AR lens implant).</p>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18132061333http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18132061333Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:56:26 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzus2iQfgT1qzc2z0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9091628/Test-tube-hamburgers-to-be-served-this-year.html" target="_blank">Test tube hamburgers to be served this year</a><br/> By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent, in Vancouver, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9091628/Test-tube-hamburgers-to-be-served-this-year.html" target="_blank">telegraph.co.uk</a></p> <p>The world’s first test tube hamburger will be served up this October after scientists perfected the art of growing beef in the lab.</p><p>By gen­er­at­ing strips of meat from stem cells researchers believe they can cre­ate a prod­uct that is iden­ti­c…</p> </blockquote>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18131899938http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18131899938Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:54 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vJs2VwqU_ZU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><span>A pleasant hit for BG, albeit that rare hit that he did not write himself. It was written by Sonny Curtis, one of Buddy Holly’s original Crickets and famous in his own right for singing and writing the theme to the Mary Tyler Moore Show. This clip was taken from the 1960’s variety show, “Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters.”</span></p>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18130412058http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18130412058Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:07:57 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lztjvcBkEH1qzc2z0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/afghan-prison/" target="_blank">U.S. Super-Sizing Afghan Jail It Promised to Abandon</a><br/> By Spencer Ackerman, <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/afghan-prison/" target="_blank">wired.com</a></p> <p>There once was a plan to turn over the main U.S. deten­tion cen­ter in Afghanistan to con­trol of the Afghans in 2011. That’s out the win­dow. Instead, the mil­i­tary is offer­ing mil­lions to vast­ly expand the cen­ter’s inmate…</p> </blockquote>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18097346754http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18097346754Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:57:12 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lztdsaBWMF1qzc2z0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/dwave-quantum-cloud/" target="_blank">D-Wave Defies World of Critics With ‘First Quantum Cloud’</a><br/> By Eric Smalley, <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/dwave-quantum-cloud/" target="_blank">wired.com</a></p> <p>Geordie Rose has a Ph.D. in quan­tum physics, but he’s also a world cham­pi­on in Brazil­ian jiu-jitsu and a Cana­di­an nation­al cham­pi­on wrestler. That may seem like an odd com­bi­na­tion, but this dual back­ground makes him the per­fect fit f…</p> </blockquote>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18089168924http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18089168924Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:45:46 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lztd68fY0B1qzc2z0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/fish-mimicking-robot/" target="_blank">Real Fish Welcome Robotic Overlord Into Their School</a><br/> By Dave Mosher, <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/fish-mimicking-robot/" target="_blank">wired.com</a></p> <p>A robot­ic fish has sailed across an aquat­ic uncan­ny val­ley by trick­ing real fish into fol­low­ing it upstream.</p><p>The feat could lead to bet­ter under­stand­ing of fish behav­ior and per­haps some means to divert them from envi­ron­men­tal…</p> </blockquote>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18088363863http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18088363863Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:32:32 -0500<a href="http://therealityinstitute.net">We listened to your feedback and, thanks to Ben Nyberg, The Reality™ Institute has been redesigned to better satisfy your needs.</a>: <p><span> <p>Dear Valued Customer,</p> <p>See the tangible outcomes of our Reality™ Expo at the Control Room:</p> <p>-readings by Benjamin Baxter,Brian J Pickett,Byron Campbell,Chelsea Leigh Musee Trescott,Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal,Seth Blake, and Hillary Kapan</p> <p>-the Unreliable Library of Solipsis O. 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Visit our new website to see that we not only care about your input, but value you as an individual. </p> </span></p>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18015795127http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/18015795127Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:21:29 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzltwjlZcx1qmjc62o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17840490261http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17840490261Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:50:53 -0500<a href="http://www.chomsky.info/">Anyone interested in my new site</a>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17835428078http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17835428078Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:19:14 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzlqwejbxx1qzc2z0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/darpa-sci-fi/" target="_blank">Pentagon’s Project ‘Avatar’: Same as the Movie, but With Robots Instead of Aliens</a><br/> By Katie Drummond, <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/darpa-sci-fi/" target="_blank">wired.com</a></p> <p>Sol­diers prac­ti­cal­ly inhab­it­ing the mechan­i­cal bod­ies of androids, who will take the humans’ place on the bat­tle­field. Or sophis­ti­cat­ed tech that spots a pow­er­ful laser ray, then stops it from oblit­er­at­ing its tar­get.</p><p>If you’…</p> </blockquote>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17833740334http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17833740334Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:48:12 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzlqkstloB1qzc2z0o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/robotic-bee/" target="_blank">Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book</a><br/> By Wired UK, <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/robotic-bee/" target="_blank">wired.com</a></p> <p>Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty engi­neers have come up with a pro­duc­tion tech­nique inspired by pop-up books and origa­mi, that allows clones of tiny robots to be mass-produced in sheets.</p><p>Pratheev Sreetha­ran and col­leagues at the Har­vard…</p> </blockquote>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17833358874http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17833358874Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:41:16 -0500http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17832013387http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17832013387Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:16:28 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzlhwcbTUn1qzc2z0o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/15/americas_apocalyptic_imperial_strategy/" target="_blank">America’s apocalyptic imperial strategy - Foreign policy</a><br/> By Noam Chomsky, <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/15/americas_apocalyptic_imperial_strategy/" target="_blank">salon.com</a></p> <p>In Iran, China and elsewhere, U.S. attempts to cling to power threaten to destabilize the globe</p><p>This orig­i­nal­ly appeared on TomDis­patch. It is the sec­ond install­ment of two-part series on Amer­i­ca’s decline. You can read part one here.</p><p>…</p> </blockquote>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17823925975http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17823925975Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:33:48 -0500“<p>We should laugh at the idea of a plant or an animal inventing itself, yet there are many people who believe that the psyche or mind invented itself and thus was the creator of its own existence. As a matter of fact, the mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak or as saurians developed into mammals. As it has for so long been developing, so it still develops, and thus we are moved by forces from within as well as by stimuli from without.</p> <p>These inner motives spring from a deep source that is not made by consciousness and is not under its control. In the mythology of earlier times, these forces were called mana, or spirits, demons, and gods. They are as active today as they ever were. If they conform to our wishes, we call them happy hunches or impulses and pat ourselves on the back for being smart fellows. If they go against us, then we say that it is just bad luck, or that certain people are against us, or that the cause of our misfortunes must be pathological. The one thing we refuse to admit is that we are dependent upon “powers” that are beyond our control.</p> <p>It is true, however, that in recent times civilized man has acquired a certain amount of will power, which he can apply where he pleases. He has learned to do his work efficiently without having recourse to chanting and drumming to hypnotize him into the state of doing. He can even dispense with a daily prayer for divine aid. He can carry out what he proposes to do, and he can apparently translate his ideas into action without a hitch, whereas the primitive seems to be hampered at each step by fears, superstitions, and other unseen obstacles to action. The motto “Where there’s a will, there’s a way” is the superstition of modern man.</p> <p>Yet in order to sustain his creed contemporary man pays the price in a remarkable lack of introspection. He is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by “powers” that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food-and, above all, a large array of neuroses.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em>Carl G. Jung, <em>Man and His Symbols </em>(1964)</em>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17789871558http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17789871558Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:38:00 -0500carl jungman and his symbols<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzjsuv4RSZ1qzc2z0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/16/israelis_unite_for_war_with_iran/" target="_blank">Israelis prepare for war with Iran - Iran</a><br/> By Larry Derfner, <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/16/israelis_unite_for_war_with_iran/" target="_blank">salon.com</a></p> <p>Even ex-Mossad chief who opposes an attack on Iran seems to have given up</p><p>JERUSALEM — After bombs went off near Israeli embassies in New Delhi and Tbil­isi, and a man with an Iran­ian pass­port acci­den­tal­ly blew him­self up in Bangkok, Israel…</p> </blockquote>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17772156190http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17772156190Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:35:19 -0500“<p>I met Dr. Chomsky and I can honestly say that he is a great person. Although he is very busy, but thats not his fault.</p> <p>Simply put, he is brilliant.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em><div class="comment-text"></div> <p class="metadata"><span class="author "><a class="yt-user-name " href="http://www.youtube.com/user/mansonboy2000" target="_blank">mansonboy2000</a> </span><span class="time">2 years ago </span><span class="comments-rating-positive" title="10 up, 0 down">10 <img class="comments-rating-thumbs-up" src="http://s.ytimg.com/yt/img/pixel-vfl3z5WfW.gif"/></span></p></em>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17729627810http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17729627810Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:19:00 -0500noam chomsky<a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/14/the_hysterical_american_decline/">The hysterical American decline</a>: <p><span>At the moment, we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s decision to launch the most destructive and murderous act of aggression of the post-World War II period: the invasion of South Vietnam, later all of Indochina, leaving millions dead and four countries devastated, with casualties still mounting from the long-term effects of drenching South Vietnam with some of the most lethal carcinogens known, undertaken to destroy ground cover and food crops.</span></p>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17719253883http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17719253883Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:46:07 -0500noam chomsky<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzhr1461LN1qzc2z0o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17711935857http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17711935857Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:00:40 -0500<p>dj chomsky, drop the beat…</p> <p><span>♫</span>All Israeli Settlements are Illegal<span>♫</span></p>http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17441102256http://blog.therealityinstitute.net/post/17441102256Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:51:13 -0500