Complex Systems
This article on the Science & Consciousness review discusses the fact that brains appear to be persistent and consistent but their actual physical molecules are recycling in days, hours, and minutes. This makes me think of Steven Johnson’s excellent book Emergence: The Connected Lives Of Ants Brains Cities And Software wherein he discusses the life [...]
Richard Smalley recently testified to the U.S. Senate on how how nanotechnologies and distributed power grids are the future of power.
Here are some quotes that Jeff Harrow of The Harrow Group found: “If I were just setting out today to make that drive to the West Coast to start a new business, I would be looking at biotechnology and nanotechnology.” Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com From the May 14, 2004 Nanotech Insider http://www.forbesinc.com/newsletters/nanotech/ – Michael [...]
For those of you into blogging, search, and optimization, read this Wired article on how one blogger with one post managed to win a contest on getting and keeping the top position at Google for a made-up phrase “nigiritude ultramarine.” There is a new contest ending August 7th and I’m pulling for the locals. One [...]
The author of this blog-post comments on how this seems intuitively sensible, which I agree with. The more people I meet, the more different they are, the wider their world-views, and the more we interact, the more I feel that I can think “between the cracks” of the different knowledge domains. So the lesson here [...]
If you have not read anything about Burning Man, the anarchist art and culture festival held every year in the desert of Nevada, then you have been living under a rock. Here is a short but interesting article on the ongoing evolution of the Burning Man urban planning methodology. Picture building a city for 30-40,000 [...]
It has been said that in some societies in the world, if the village shaman curses an individual to death, that individual will be cast out from the rest of the village and the other villagers will pretend that the person does not exist. They will not feed, talk to, nor acknowledge the presence of [...]
Along with a friend, I recently entered a business plan in the Telus New Ventures BC competition. My plan was about a service where every six months a person would get an updated report on their risk factors as more information was known. I pulled the plan because I do not have the contacts or [...]
The Universe is 14 billion years old and will either either re-collapse into itself, expand into a completely diluted state, or rip apart in its 36th billion year in a runaway expansion so violent that galaxies and planets will be torn asunder in a fraction of a second. How do we manage the polarity inherent [...]
