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Press release for publication of Tam Hunts new book, Eco, Ego, Eros: Essays in Philosophy, Spirituality and Science

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Tam Hunts new collection of essays, Eco, Ego, Eros: Essays in Philosophy, Spirituality and Science, was published in early 2014. It is available in paperback or Kindle onAmazon.com.

Kirkus Reviews positively reviewed this new collection: A beautifully designed, thoroughly stimulating new paradigm of scientific spiritualism. The rest of the Kirkus review is availablehere.

Christof Koch, formerly a tenured professor at CalTech and now Chief Scientific Officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, wrote the Foreword for Hunts book. Hestates:

By reading Eco, Ego, Eros, you are about to embark on a voyage of discovery that uses rational analysis by some of the greatest Western thinkers, combined with the experimental and theoretical investigation of nature, to make sense of the riddle of our existence. Authored by Tam Hunt, an environmental lawyer and philosopher, this series of short chapters, reflecting their origin in a regular online column, has a magnificent writ. Starting out with panpsychism, the ancient teaching that all creatures and, indeed, all matter, are to a smaller and larger extent conscious, the book covers quantum mechanics, relativity theory, evolution by natural selection, the origin of life, scholars from Descartes to contemporary philosophers of mind, Gdel and the limits of mathematics, Western, Hindu and Buddhist ideas about mind, and the authors own mystical experience when smoking dope in the PacificNorthwest.

Absent-minded science - the practice of todays mainstream science of ignoring, either intentionally or by oversight, the role of mind in nature - is the focus of this volume of essays by Tam Hunt. Hunt is a former columnist for the Santa Barbara Independent and this book contains the first three years of his columns, including a bonus detailed interview with Giulio Tononi, developer of the Integrated Information Theory of consciousness that is growing in popularity in recent years. Also included is an interview with Christof Koch, a neuroscientist and biophysicist who has outed himself as a panpsychist. Panpsychism, a theme that runs through most of Hunts essays, is the notion that matter and mind are two sides of the same coin, so where there is mind there is also matter and where there is matter there is also mind. Koch, Tononi and Hunt are part of a growing awareness that mind needs to be taken seriously in science as well as in philosophy. Mind is fundamental in any coherent ontology and this series of essays outlines a system that puts mind back where it should be: at the base of ourworldview.

Tam Hunt is a lawyer, philosopher and writer based in Santa Barbara, California. He is a Visiting Scholar in psychology at UC SantaBarbara.

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Video: Boise State's 'Too Cool' Close Encounter With Int'l Space Station

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Some 250 miles above the Earth floats the International Space Station, but on May 6, the space station touched down, not physically, but digitally to Boise State University, where a group of students, educators and select guests eagerly awaited a close encounter.

Set up in Boise States Student Union Building, the Space Symposium created a live-link connection with two ISS astronauts, Steve Swanson and Rick Mastracchio.

A group of students known as the Space Broncos have been planning this event since late January 2014. Students in the Space Broncos come from different colleges and disciplines across campus. John Garretson, who joined at the beginning of the 2013 fall semester, is a senior public relations and communication major who discovered the opportunity to join Space Broncos through an e-mail from his adviser.

I had to take it right on the spot, it was too cool of an opportunity to pass up, Garretson said.

Leigh Ann Dufurrena, digital and social media communications specialist, took the position of co-professor of record for the Space Broncos and headed the Space Symposium event.

The culmination of all the projects we've been working on and all of the field trips and community outreach is this event, Dufurrena said.

The idea originally came from NASA, which approached the Space Broncos about the downlink, since then the students have been working with Swanson on the project. Swanson received the title of Professor of Practice in February 2014.

Its [Professor of Practice] a new program with community and business leaders to help in creative learning across all the colleges, Dufurrena said.

The opportunity to have what is, more or less, a Skype session with the ISS hasnt been offered to many other universities.

Theres been a couple of other universities that have done these, but its a really rare opportunity for any university to get to have a downlink with the space station and especially a two-way downlink like we are doing today, Dufurrena said.

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Moment of truth nears for sleepy New Mexico town on cusp of space flight – Video

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Gov. Hickenlooper to Speak at 30th Space Symposium Luncheon and Sign Space Flight Bill

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Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper will participate in two events at this months 30th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. The Space Foundations Space Symposium is an international space conference to be held May 19-22 at The Broadmoor.

At 11:40 a.m. on May 20, the Governor plans to sign a bill in the Symposiums Boeing Exhibit Center at the Colorado Space Coalition booth (#124). The bill is HB14-1178 "Sales and Use Tax Exemption for Space Flight Property" by Representatives Mark Ferrandino and Brian DelGrosso and Senators Mary Hodge and Kevin Grantham.

The Governor will also speak at the Symposiums Space Warfighters Luncheon on May 20, to be held at The Broadmoors Colorado Hall beginning at 12:15.

Featured speaker at the luncheon will be Lt. Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond, USAF, Commander, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic), Air Force Space Command; and Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space, U.S. Strategic Command, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

The Space Warfighters Luncheon is held annually during the Space Symposium to honor the men and women who serve in the military around the world, and highlights the role space assets play in providing security and solutions for keeping troops safe, informed and effective. The luncheon is co-sponsored by United Launch Alliance (ULA), with corporate host Michael C. Gass, President and Chief Executive Officer, ULA.

Gov. Hickenlooper, a self-described "recovering geologist now on loan to public service," was elected Colorado Governor in 2010, after serving eight years as Mayor of Denver.

Reporters who plan to cover the event must register in advance for Symposium security clearance and pick up a media badge on site in the media center in Broadmoor Hall. Media should register now at http://www.spacesymposium.org/media.

See the complete agenda and list of Space Symposium speakers at http://www.SpaceSymposium.org.

About the Space Foundation Founded in 1983, the Space Foundation is the foremost advocate for all sectors of space, and is a global, nonprofit leader in space awareness activities, educational programs and major industry events, including the annual Space Symposium, all in support of its mission "to advance space-related endeavors to inspire, enable and propel humanity." Space Foundation World Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., features a public Discovery Center including the El Pomar Space Gallery and the Northrop Grumman Science Center featuring Science On a Sphere, and is a member of the American Alliance of Museums. The Space Foundation has a field office in Houston, and from its Washington, D.C., office, conducts government affairs, publishes The Space Report: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity and provides three indexes that track daily U.S. stock market performance of the space industry. Through its Space Certification and Space Technology Hall of Fame programs, the Space Foundation recognizes space-based technologies and innovations that have been adapted to improve life on Earth. Visit http://www.SpaceFoundation.org, follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter, and read our e-newsletter Space Watch.

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Drones take flight near Kennedy Space Center

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Buzzing like a mechanical insect, the black Hexcopter used its six whirring propellers to hover and zoom above a grassy field, providing emergency officials a set of airborne optical and infrared eyeballs.

"He's flying over this disaster site here to the west, taking a look. He's seeing a body lying on the ground, a bicycle and the potential for hazmat. So he's videotaping all that," explained Justin Dee, an operator with Prioria Robotics, the Gainesville firm that developed the drone.

Mission accomplished, the 14-pound, 46-inch wide Hexcopter slowly settled onto the grass near Dee's tent, landing in autopilot mode after a successful exhibition flight.

Sunday, 10 robotics teams showed off the capabilities of their unmanned aircraft during a series of demonstration flights at Exploration Park, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported. Sponsored by Space Florida, the event kicked off the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International trade show, which continues through Thursday at the Orange County Convention Center.

AUVSI predicts that the drone industry will create nearly 104,000 jobs nationwide by 2025, assuming that the Federal Aviation Administration integrates unmanned aircraft into the national airspace system. Projected economic impact is more than $82 billion from 2015-25.

"The past history of drones has been all military defense kind of stuff. Now, they're looking at getting into precision agriculture. Japan's been using the Yamaha helicopter to cropdust crops for years," said Joe Brannan, director of AUVSI's Florida Peninsula chapter.

"They can find the diseased (orange) trees so the farmer can go cut those out and not affect the rest of his trees. You can use them to count manatees, gators, wildlife. You can use them for forest fire spotting. You can use them to find lost people," Brannan said.

"Then, of course, you've got what shows up in the press about Amazon wanting to deliver packages with it. The commercial applications are out there, just waiting for an industry to get started. The biggest issue, of course, is getting the airspace," he said.

In March, a US Airways jet nearly collided with a camouflage-painted drone above Tallahassee Regional Airport.

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Sir Richard Branson reveals launch of space adventure Virgin Galactic is "very close"

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The 63-year-old businessman was speaking to Nick Grimshaw during the Q&A ahead of Radio 1's Big Weekend

Sir Richard Branson has admitted he has problems with his plans to blast into space - but insisted he is very close to launching his Virgin Galactic programme.

The 63-year-old businessman was speaking to students in a Q&A when he tried to play down the delays.

Building a space ship and a mother ship is taking us longer than we thought but we are very close to being up up and away, he insisted.

He then told the audience that lots of them would be able to travel cheaply in space before they died.

He added: We have brought the price down, it you go up with the Russians it costs $40million so we have brought that down to a couple of hundred thousand dollars which is still a fortune.

"But the 800 people that have signed up will be pioneers and will in time enable us to get the price down and down and down.

I a hopeful that most people in this room in their lifetime should have an opportunity to become astronauts.

We are going to have to build a lot more spaceships to accommodate them but I think hopefully a good percentage of you will have a chance to go into space or be able to afford it.

That is our challenge and we will do our best to deliver.

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How NASA Scientists Created an International Space Orchestra

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What do you get when you combine brilliant space scientists with musical instruments? Why, an International Space Opera, of course.

The International Space Orchestra (ISO) is the brainchild of French director Nelly Ben Hayoun, who has the colorful title "designer of experiences" at theSETI Institute(short for Search for Extraterrestrial Life) in Mountain View, Calif.

"If you want to engage the public with [space science], you can't really do that with a poster," Ben Hayoun told an audience at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas in March.

In the summer of 2012, Ben Hayoun assembled the orchestra using scientists from the NASA Ames Research Center, SETI Institute, Singularity University and the International Space University joined forces. They performed "Ground Control: An Opera in Space," a 27-minuted musical extravaganza that reenacted the drama of NASA's mission control during theApollo 11 moon landingin 1969.

Ben Hayoun directed and produced the space opera, which features NASA Flight Director for the LCROSS and LADEE moon missions Rusty Hunt playing baritone saxophone, NASA Ames Deputy Director Lewis Braxton on the gong and NASA astronaut Yvonne Cagle on percussion.

The ISO had their first performance in front of the world's largest wind tunnel at NASA Ames on Sept. 6, 2012. Their second performance took place in San Jose during the ZERO1 Biennial, a showcase of work at the nexus of art and technology.

The scientists were joined by musical talent Damon Albarn, frontman for the bands Blur and Gorillaz, singer-songwriter Bobby Womack and the famous Japanese art group Maywa Denki, with original music by the band Penguin Caf's Arthur Jeffes and lyrics by science fiction author Bruce Sterling and writer Jasmina Tesanovic.

Later, Ben Hayoun made a feature film about the orchestra, because otherwise, "nobody would believe that it happened," she said. She filmed the space opera at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch, where "Star Wars" was developed.

In January 2013, the film premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and launched a world tour.

"They're never going to be the philharmonic, but that's not the point," one person interviewed in the film observed.

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Red Shirt leader warns of civil war in Thailand

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BANGKOK (AP) Supporters of Thailands embattled government warned the countrys judiciary and senators against any attempt to install an unelected prime minister, saying it would be a disaster for the nation that could spark civil war.

Jatuporn Prompan, who heads the pro-government Red Shirt movement, made the comment during a rally Saturday on the western edge of Bangkok that was held three days after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was ousted in a controversial ruling by the Constitutional Court. Punctuating the warning of violence, unknown assailants fired two grenades late Saturday at the prime ministers office compound, where anti-government protesters were camped. Two people were slightly wounded, said police Col. Kamthorn Auicharoen.

It was the latest in a series of grenade attacks and drive-by shootings that have left hundreds injured since Thailands political crisis escalated in November. Both sides accuse the other of orchestrating the violence.

Emboldened by Yinglucks removal, anti-government protesters ramped up their efforts to bring down what remains of Yinglucks administration by laying siege to television stations, surrounding state offices and demanding lawmakers help them install a non-elected prime minister to rule the country.

Yinglucks Cabinet has named deputy premier Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan as acting prime minister, but the leader of the anti-government protest movement, Suthep Thaugsuban, said Saturday that Niwattumrong doesnt hold the authority and status to be the head of the government.

Suthep said the Senate should quickly consult the presidents of the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Administrative Court and the Election Commission to work to appoint the new prime minister immediately.

The anti-government protesters called Friday for a final push to oust the entire Cabinet and set up an unelected peoples council that they say would implement still-undefined reforms to combat corruption and fight money politics. They oppose elections scheduled for July, which the current ruling party would likely win.

Jatuporn, however, insisted that the current government was legitimate and denied there was any political vacuum in the wake of Yinglucks departure. There is only the political vacuum that the elites, including Suthep, are attempting to create, he said Saturday.

Appointing an unelected prime minister will inflict a crisis on the nation, because the only solution for Thailand is democracy under the king as head of the state, Jatuporn said.

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Red-letter day nears for giant sign

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There's been a disagreement over the bright orange colour of giant letters which spell out 'Beaufort Street' in the City of Vincent.

Giant concrete letters spelling out Beaufort Street in the heart of Mount Lawley have had passers-by scratching their heads for months as the artwork has remained behind security fencing.

Signage appeared alongside the public artwork in recent months informing residents that the City of Vincent was working hard to finalise this artwork but the sign located on Beaufort Street in front of a car park, gives no suggestion as to why there's been a delay.

The large concrete words should have been painted and unveiled to the public in December but instead it has been fenced off and untouched since about October.

A sign has been put up on fencing reassuring people that the artwork is not finished yet.

City of Vincent Mayor John Carey said the City had been in contractual negotiations with the company responsible for producing the piece.

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Effectively there has been a dispute and we are coming to a resolution now, he said.

Mr Carey told Fairfax Media that as discussions were taking place he could not say what the issue was but did say that once the matter was settled, changes to the appearance of the sign may be made.

It is understood that the City is not happy with the burnt yellow and orange colours and the finish of the artwork.

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'The Blacklist' season finale: Harry Lennix and Amir Arison tease the high-stakes "Berlin (No. 8) Conclusion"

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As "The Blacklist" heads into its Season 1 finale, no one is safe -- not Red, not Lizzie, not anyone of the FBI agents involved with the investigations. Zap2it caught up with two of the show's stars -- Amir Arison (Aram) and Harry Lennix (Cooper) -- at the NBC Upfronts in New York City on Monday.

Check out what they had to say about the premiere and its dangers here.

Both men agreed that no one is going to be safe before the end of the season. "Someone or even someones may get hurt or more," Arison hints. "You will learn more about Red and Liz's relationship. And you'll learn a little bit more about Tom."

Lennix agrees that no one can avoid the drama of this final episode. "There's a lot at stake for everybody -- and I mean everybody, on a very real level. Everybody's on the hot seat," he says. "Red has informed us that Berlin is after everybody, and I think that will be more out tonight. But of course we want to bring people back for the second season, so we're not going to answer every question. But we will answer some."

Of course, Cooper has to go on Red's intelligence here, but can Cooper really trust Reddington? Lennix doesn't think that's necessarily the case. "I think that Red has proven that he should be looked at with suspicion all the time," the actor says. "But from a law-enforcement perspective, he's the goose that laid the golden egg. Is that for him to only benefit from? Is he using us or are we using him? That's the deal with him. I know that he is a valuable asset -- I don't think that trust has anything to do with that whatsoever. If I flip that light switch, do I trust that it will come on? Yeah. Do I trust it enough to put my finger in the socket? No."

All of the drama in the "Blacklist" Season 1 finale will be revealed Monday, May 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.

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