google Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/google/ Dream Research & Education Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:06:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png google Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/google/ 32 32 Big Data and the Study of Religion: Can a Google Search Lead to God? https://bulkeley.org/big-data-and-the-study-of-religion-can-a-google-search-lead-to-god/ https://bulkeley.org/big-data-and-the-study-of-religion-can-a-google-search-lead-to-god/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:06:05 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3011 A recent essay in the Sunday Review Section of the New York Times made several observations about religion in contemporary America by analyzing a huge collection of Google search data. In “Googling for God,” economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz examined the search results for various religious terms and questions in relation to where the people lived and …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/googles-deep-dreaming-project/feed/ 0 The Technology of Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/the-technology-of-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/the-technology-of-dreaming/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:10:53 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2906 “For myself I never found need of more than four or five hours’ sleep in the twenty-four. I never dream.” So said the famously hard-working inventor Thomas Edison in 1921 in his Diary and Sundry Observations.  Edison claimed the only truly restful sleep was totally unconscious, and he regarded dreaming as a waste of mental …

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