Crypto 2.0

"Just when people were getting used to the idea that bitcoin might not be a boom-and-bust fad destined for failure, entirely new applications of the technology have joined digital currency on stage.
Crypto 2.0 – also know as cryptography 2.0, decentralized applications, or, popularly, as bitcoin 2.0 – is the application of block chain or distributed ledger technology to things other than digital currency. The block chain offers the ability to facilitate decentralized ownership and store, transfer and process information in a decentralized, programmable way. Many consider that innovation to be the true value of this technology." 

More at Coindesk.

Soon we will begin to see how revolutionary cryptocurrency really is.

Paintings from a man with pineal gland cancer

Check out these amazing paintings from a man who had pineal gland cancer. For more of his work be sure to click the link at the bottom of the article.

http://ultraculture.org/blog/2014/08/14/incredible-psychedelic-paintings-man-pineal-cancer/

What an excellent depiction of the cybernetic nature of consciousness.

Jello Biafra was a genius

I pointed it out once before in Rediscovery that Jello's lyrics were certainly applicable today in the case of domestic politics in the state of California.

His insight into foreign policy was just as sharp and in fact, nearly prescient. Check out this video, from the 80's as well, mind you. This isn't an official video and the references are updated to the early part of the last decade but, they are relevant again in the early part of this one.

McMoon's--"Dumpster diving for science"

"From an abandoned McDonald's in the backyard of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, a dozen or so volunteer scientists and engineers have taken control of a decommissioned, still running, 70s-era space satellite, currently some 20,000 kilometers away, by using discarded vintage space computers and a few sweet eBay finds.

The so-named "McMoon's" Control Center is some sort of bizarre testament to human ingenuity and what a bunch of very smart people with virtually no budget or proper authorization can pull off."

Read the rest at Motherboard.

Current state of oil supply and demand

"We frequently see stories telling us how well the United States is doing at oil extraction. The fact that there are stories in the press about the US wanting to export crude oil adds to the hype. How much of these stories are really true?"

RTWT

Sociopaths and politics

"the probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping master in a slave plantation.”

RTWT

On the Ebola outbreak

SCG's take on the Ebola outbreak. Well worth a watch.

Ebola - What You're Not Being Told: http://youtu.be/JnQVUf775VE