The development of the modern prison has been documented by Foucault as an instrument for bodily discipline. Another aspect of prisons, especially that of solitary confinement, is the isolation of individuals from collective groups. This act is meant to prevent any type of collective resistance that can form when an individual mind strives to achieve autonomy. This struggle for autonomy does not occur in a vacuum, and requires some sort of solidarity with others to fight against widespread structures that systematically condition or control human life.

 
Here is a wonderful recording of a talk given by Terence McKenna just before his untimely death. It deals with how psychedelic chemicals can assist in the understanding of the expansion of knowledge, and how there is the ability to program more aspects of reality through this knowledge.

 
Here is an attempt to depict every character in the Simpsons throughout the entire series. It is hard to tell if the group picture includes everyone, but it at least makes a great try to form a set of all Simpsons.

 
When one speaks about spontaneous order, one can mean either order that is unplanned or voluntary. Voluntary order is the cornerstone of a free society and democracy, and some will argue that unplanned order is also positive. But an unplanned order can also be negative as seen in the example of individual and unrelated assaults on women generating a general fear of being assaulted by all women.

 
The Old Weird America was the mythic characteristics of the past that became the subject matter of the folk music and blues tradition. This tradition was a wellspring for Bob Dylan in his songwriting as he shifted from covering folk songs to doing his own material. It reveals the personality of America that can not be pinned down in history textbooks. It also demonstrates that the greatness of the country is not the exclusive domain of jingoistic nationalism.

 
Fractals can be very interesting on an intellectual level as well as beautiful on an aesthetic level. Here is a depiction of the Mandelbrot Set in three dimensions, where it resembles something that grew in nature. This visual effect is made possible because actual elements in nature will show fractal patterns. This also demonstrates how mathematics and nature are linked together.