Steven Otero
Steve’s Weekly Dish 97.0.
September 4th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
it’s an election year, and, this being America, morality has taken center stage.Why — unlike the French — do Americans demand the appearance of moral antisepsis from their public figures?
Alan Watts - On Nothingness
Need I say more
Perspectives On Bristol Palin: Notes From A Sexologist
Between her pro-life, anti-sex ed, pro-gun, anti-gay marriage, pro-creationism beliefs and her teen daughter’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy, there is plenty of material to address.
Kingsley Proves Age Is Just a Number in ‘Elegy
Give Ben Kingsley the Oscar again.
Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
Why is Google building a browser? A better question is, why did it take so long for Google to build a browser?
Steve’s Weekly Dish 96.0.
August 28th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
Sex Addiction: The Big Con
Susie Bright discuss the differences between sexual addiction, compulsion, and obsession— and why the hype about “Sex Addicts” is off the wall, and more than a little dangerous.
The Christian Right’s Slick Campaign to Make Abstinence Seem Trendy
Conservatives finally learned that moralizing doesn’t keep teens from having sex. Now they have a creepy new tactic.
The heretic
Giordano Bruno has been called a martyr to science and an occultist, but a new book argues that the brilliant philosopher’s unconventional behavior did him in.
Detonating Hive Mentality: The Way Of The Outsider
Quality, depth and truth are rarely, if ever, found in the mainstream. Whether in art, music, literature, science, history or knowledge itself, the good stuff always emanates from the outside.
The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites
These sites let you crunch the number, or just look up who that one guy is in that movie.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 95.0.
August 21st, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
Living Honestly: Do What Our Politicians Don’t
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, proves that there is beauty in saying what you want without being apologetic.
The Misshapen Mind: How the Brain’s Haphazard Evolution Left Us with Self-Destructive Instincts
Evolution didn’t quite hit perfection when it comes to human thought processes.
Podcast 152 - “Question Authority and Think for Yourself”
All quotations below are by Dr. Timothy Leary”When I say think for yourself, I don’t mean think selfishly for yourself. I mean think independently.”
If you’re going to think for yourself, you gotta learn to think clearly.”
I.O.U.S.A. One nation Under Dept
The U.S. is going broke.
The Danger of Stress
Getting stressed isn’t just a state of mind. It can also seriously harm the body.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 94.0.
August 14th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
When Is America Going To Grow Up & Accept Human Sexuality?
Betty Dodson says “We must embrace human sexuality as the basis for life and honor it. And then we might be able to enjoy it!” America please listen Please join www.Dodsonandross.com
E-mail, schme-mail, Twitter gets the job done
#35 The 8 Circuit Brain Model, Part 1 - Conversations with Antero Alli
Boot up your brain with Antero Alli
Female Orgasm and the Need for a New Definition of Sex.
This would make sex more egalitarian, no longer focused on penetration as the high point of sex.
Brain will be battlefield of future, warns US intelligence report
The human brain could become a battlefield in future wars, a new report predicts, including ‘pharmacological land mines’ and drones directed by mind control
Steve’s Weekly Dish 93.0.
August 7th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
An interview with Shantam Nityama
How Many Partners Makes You Promiscuous?: More On The Never-Ending Debate
But to read Virginia Ironside’s recent tirade against perceived promiscuity is to think you’ve landed back a few centuries
The Biocraft Repair Manual
Cybernautics
Self-transformation is nothing new but a system which uses your computer as your counselor is a timely innovation indeed!
Knights Templar heirs in legal battle with the Pope
The heirs of the Knights Templar have launched a legal battle in Spain to force the Pope to restore the reputation of the disgraced order which was accused of heresy and dissolved seven centuries ago.
Baby Bust!
The world is panicking over birthrates. Again.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 92.0.
July 31st, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
What would Abe do with Facebook & Twitter?
A delusion for the reality-TV era
The signature mental illness of the YouTube era: patients who claim they are subjects of their own reality TV shows
Robert Anton Wilson: Belief Systems
I DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING nuff said
How supposedly smart people make stupid decisions about sex. And there seems to be a lot of stupidity going around.
Do Space Travels Change Astronauts?
Steve’s Weekly Dish 91.0.
July 24th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
Transcend The Control System: You Are Not A Number
If you are not shaping your own reality, then someone else is doing it for you.
Deism and Freedom
Deism encourages individuals to use their reason and to question everyone and everything.
F For Fake (Orson Welles) Part 1
A fast-paced, meandering investigation of the natures of authorship
Steve’s favorite film
In a world where porn is as near as your web browser, why does the cutting edge of erotic exploration seem to be found in material that’s nearly four decades old?
Scientists see a biological underpinning for religiosity, and it is related to the neurotransmitter serotonin.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 90.0.
July 17th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
Socrates, Caves, and Multidimensional Aliens
What might Socrates have known about alien beings?
Jacques Vallee - On Messengers of Deception
A large portion of ufologists & parapsychologists have fairly strong links to military or intelligence groups
What is the Mandrake Mechanism?
It’s the most important financial lesson of your life!
Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened — and has become a powerful voice for brain recovery
From Capt. Kirk to Brother Jed
director Roger Nygard on filmmaking, fan culture, religion, and why people get so angry when their beliefs get challenged.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 89.0.
July 10th, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
Podcast 147 - RAW: “Conspiracies and TSOG”
Most of our perceptions are in the ‘maybe’ mode. They’re not yes or no, they’re not true or false, they’re just ‘maybes’. I think ‘maybe logic’ is probably the greatest invention of the 20th century.”
Banned:Welcome to the Nanny State Nation
Whether you love it, hate it chances are some politician wants to ban it. Didn’t we just celebrate Independence day?
Mark Twain: Our Original Superstar
Before Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, and Keith Olbermann — There Was Mark Twain
Arthur C. Clarke, A Visionary Astrobiologist
One of his most memorable sayings was that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Want to Enhance Your Brain Power?
Research hints that electrically stimulating the brain can speed learning
Steve’s Weekly Dish 88.0.
July 3rd, 2008Here’s my picks for this week’s dish
Science and Meditation: Are Mystics just Having a Brain Wave?
Are Mystics just useing their right instead of their left brain?
False beliefs are everywhere.Thanks to the quirky way in which our brains store memories - and mislead us along the way.
Go Your Own Way: Gnosis And The Fractal Spiral
You have to work on yourself before you can really get anywhere.
Terminator And Star Trek Are The Yin And Yang Of Time
Travel
In the Terminator the people are backward technologically but they’re also living in a promised land compared to the world Kyle Reese comes from.