Mars Lander Mashup Video, Digibarn exhibit at the MAH, SciFi version of Shakespeare's Pericles, Durian Sex Cult

We combined the animation of the Martian Lander, Curiosity, with actual footage from the craft, as it lands on Mars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NUwDB3NxPw&feature=youtu.be

Starting this Friday, the illustrious Digibarn will present the history of the Macintosh computer, with an exhibit at the MAH (Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History).  Dr. Bruce Damer gives us a preview..

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Also of interest this week is the Shady Shakespeare’s performance of Pericles, a brilliantly original, funny, yet gripping performance of the master’s classic play.  Check it out by all means and though we were not allowed to film the play itself, we do have a video preview of the preshow, the Shady Shakespeare cast doing the Time Warp!   

Shady Shakespeare Company does the Time Warp!

We have also just finished at edit of a performance at Heart Kiss 2012 of the Durian Sex Cult, a new dance troupe in Santa Cruz.  In the following piece, 

 “The supreme Shiva is seduced by the divine Shakti with a little help from the magical powers of  the Durian fruit..”

Shiva is played by Santa Cruz’s own Corey Pooley

Guest - Michael Gosney

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Michael Gosney is a veteran “new edge” media producer and impresario whose productions and events have defined the emergent integrative culture for 25 years – from holistic health to deep ecology to small press publishing to new science to desktop publishing and multimedia to eco-cities to cyberculture to electronic music to the “transmodern tribalism” evolving in festival culture, intentional communities and new social and economic networks across the planet.

Birds confused by Human Power, Exploring GMOs, Gates Makes Fertilizer Obsolete, Designer Payloads for Mosquitos, Futurist Charles Ostman.

Dr.Future News 7.17.12

A rather engaging news hour today, if I don’t say so myself, with special guest, futurist Charles Ostman,  who gives us his take on the evolving worlds of DARPA, autonomous vehicles, the neural nature of the Internet, China, the Singularity, and the essential need for us to be part of today’s technological infrastructure.

Charles Ostman

Dr. Future News - Hawking brain waves, Ford autonomous cars, New Nano Tools, Graphene Desal, Case of the Missing Star System,

Dr. Future News 7.10.12

Some fresh future news stories today, like the case of the missing solar system planet dust, new programmable DNA scissors, brain wave talking, and some honesty in politics…

Our Guest today, Dr. Charles Buchanan on the Higgs Boson research

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Today our guest is Dr. Charles Buchanan, UCLA and Stanford trained high energy particle physicist, who will be discussing the Higgs Boson announcement and it’s significance to us all. He’s a great teacher, and this is a good way to gain some understanding of the topic.

The conversation on the Higgs Boson begins in earnest after a couple of news stories, including one on what we are learning from sequencing the Dolphin Genome.  For more on the news stories and Dr. Buchanon’s background, check out our links page.

Dr. Charles Buchanan