Monthly Archives: February 2015

The Answer To Life May Be Hidden Away In A Car Park Seven Stories Underground

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Art Selectronic

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything may be hidden away deep in a car park seven stories underground. Questions like why our world exists and what nothing is have occupied minds great and ordinary since the dawn … Continue reading →

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Spotless Mind: MIT Neuroscientists Place False Memories And Reverse Negative Associations

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Art Selectronic

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 American romantic science-fiction comedy-drama film about an estranged couple who have each other erased from their memories. Pretty fancy stuff, for a sci-fi romantic comedy. There’s nothing we can do to … Continue reading →

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Panspermia: Was A Minuscule Metal Globe Sent To Earth By Some Unknown Civilization?

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Art Selectronic

In ‘Watchers‘ Artist Tom Estes has created a digital installation of a Sci-fi image of ancient and highly advanced alien civilizations- and literally projected it directly onto a Bible open at ‘Genesis’. By merging these two existing narratives and … Continue reading →

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Live Forever? Seems Like We’re On The Cusp Of Something Huge

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Art Selectronic

Scientists from Harvard and the University of New South Wales now say they have discovered how to reverse the ageing process. However natural selection has developed potential biological immortality in at least one species, the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii. Image: Selfie … Continue reading →

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