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Rock music: Best of 2010 - play it
Hiking: Hikes of 2011

Essay: The Greatest and Worst Inventions of the 20th Century
Politics: Libya and NATO
Poetry/Meditation: Half Moon Epigrams
Travel: Hikes of 2011
Politics: The implosion of Pakistan
Essay: Cultural Uniformity
Politics: Turkey's sense of humour
Book review: Durham, William: "Coevolution"
Politics: The legacy of the Arab dictators
Essay: The Difference Between You and It
Politics: The loser in the Arab Spring
Rock reviews: Julianna Barwick, Battles, etc
Politics: The phantom states of the world
Politics: The most dangerous place
Classical music: Conductors and orchestras
Travel: Hiking in California
Politics: Jobs
Interview: Leonard Susskind (Stanford Univ) on Theoretical Physics
Book review: Laszlo, Ervin
Presentation: How To Kill Yourself, Your Country And Your Planet kIn A Few Easy Stepskand Feel Good About It
Interview: Jeremy Bailenson (Stanford Univ) on Virtual Reality
History: A timeline of the Asian Miracle
Art: My collages
Essay: Stages of Evolution
Politics: Germany looks East
Event: Art & Science at Stanford
High-tech: The demise of Google
Interview: Silicon Valley anthropologist Jan English-Lueck
Essay: The Decline of Consciousness
Book review: Jaron Lanier
Interview: Visual artist Gail Wight
Travel: Hikes of 2011
Essay: Machine Intelligence and Human Stupidity
Essay: From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Creativity
Technology: Hyper-commerce
Poetry/Meditation: Half Moon Epigram 16-6-2011 20:13
Politics: Another threat to USA domination: the success of the high-tech industry
Literature: Timeline of Latin literature
History: Timeline of the Roman Empire
Avantgarde music: Nyman, Ostertag, Bryars, Basinski, Ashley, Branca, Dockstader, etc
Politics: In defense of nuclear energy
Travel: Papua

Essay: The Regge Hypotheses
Classical music: List of modern composers
eBook: A Brief History of Knowledge
Essay: The Moral Scientist
Politics: A man's monster is another man's saint
Music: Bios of musicians: Leyland Kirby, Purling Hiss, Four Tet, M.I.A., etc
Presentation: What is the Dao of an Ant?
Philosophy: Principles of Covariant Wisdom
Politics: China: the great illusion?
Voiceover: Half Moon Bay 16.4.11 00:23
Science: Robot Block Party
Politics: My map of rising powers
Publication: A History of Silicon Valley
Travel: Turkey

Website: "A History of Silicon Valley"
History: Visual history of computing
Essay: A Wiki for President
Politics: Apocalypse 2011
Presentation: A History of Women
Essay: The Meaning of Inebriating Substances
Book review: Wilson Edward Osborne
Presentation: Art, Science & Creativity
Essay: The Intelligence of Limbs
Travel: Japan and Australia

Essay: Wikipedia as a force for evil
Essay: Decoupling Quality of Life and Wealth
Travel: Pacific region
Politics: One million Hitlers
Book review: Kevin Kelly
Art: Djerassi Art Center

Essay: I added a few philosophical essays
Politics: One million Gandhis
Politics: The Al Jazeera revolution
Essay: We Are Just a Simulation
Book review: David Chalmers
Publication: Synthesis: poems and meditations
Politics: The return of Turkey and Iran
Essay: A Knowledge-Base is Not Knowledge
Travel: Central America

Book review: Stuart Kauffman
Politics: A biography of Osama bin Laden
Music: Bios of rock musicians
Travel: Hikes of 2010

Projects underway:


Art/Science evening
"A History of Silicon Valley"
Visual history of computing
Travel in the Pacific region
Improving the timeline of the Middle East
Bios for the history of Silicon Valley
Memejam
Bios of rock musicians
Interviews with artists, scientists, philosophers
Hiking in California
Travel in Central America
A timeline of Russia
A timeline of the 20th Century
Timeline of Art and Culture in the 20th Century
Published a new book of poems and meditations
Organizing a series of Art/Science meetings
Organizing a series of philosophical salons
Posting my thoughts on Twitter
Digitizing thousands of pictures of countries of the world
Research in Cognitive Science
Published a new book, "A History of Rock and Dance Music"
Theory of Spacetime Ripples to unify Relativity and Quantum models of the world
Working on a "History of Avantgarde Music"
Polish translation of "A History of Rock Music"
Chinese translation of "A History of Rock Music"
Spanish translation of "A History of Rock Music"
English translation of the chapters of "A History of Cinema" that are only in Italian
"The World. A Beginner's Guide." (A book of my travels to 100+ countries, with photos and a bit of cultural/historical/architectural introduction)
see the past projects

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Essay: A Wiki for President
Presentation: A History of Women
Essay: The Meaning of Inebriating Substances
Book review: Wilson Edward Osborne: "Consilience"
Presentation: Art, Science & Creativity
Essay: The Intelligence of Limbs
Essay: Wikipedia as a force for evil
Essay: Decoupling Quality of Life and Wealth
Music reviews: several
Politics: One million Hitlers
Book review: Kevin Kelly
Art: Djerassi Art Center
Essay: I added a few philosophical essays
Politics: One million Gandhis
Politics: The Al Jazeera revolution
Essay: We Are Just a Simulation
Book review: David Chalmers
Politics: The return of Turkey and Iran
Essay: A Knowledge-Base is Not Knowledge
Politics: The great illusion?
Book review: Stuart Kauffman
Politics: A biography of Osama bin Laden

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