The city is filled with an invisible landscape of networks that is becoming an interwoven part of daily life. WiFi networks and increasingly sophisticated mobile phones are starting to influence how urban environments are experienced and understood. We want to explore and reveal what the immaterial terrain of WiFi looks like and how it relates to the city.
Incredible animation and direction from Anthony F. Schepperd who was also responsible for the equally brilliant Ape School — Wail to God music video.
Robert Sapolsky explains the lifecycle and behaviour controlling feature of Toxoplasma — a protozoan which can only reproduce sexually in the gut of a cat. It comes out in the cat faeces, the faeces get eaten by rodents, then to get back in the cat, it enters the brain and creates dopamine — the neurotransmitter in the brain that’s all about reward and anticipation of reward — to attract the rat to the cat.
The rat could, presumably, be human and have a controlling influence on the brain …
On a certain level, this is a protozoan parasite that knows more about the neurobiology of anxiety and fear than 25,000 neuroscientists standing on each other’s shoulders, and this is not a rare pattern.