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Link Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of…
RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided…

April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments
Twitter Links Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions
In life-threatening conditions, microbes use game theory to account for neighbors’ decisions and work out their best tactics for survival. New research presented at…

March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments
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December 18 2011, 12:40pm | Comments
Tumblr How Computational Complexity Will Revolutionise Philosophy

August 10 2011, 5:31am | Comments
Link What's human? What's animal? And what of the…
Friday's report by the Academy of Medical Sciences on the increasingly fuzzy boundaries between the human and the animal is the latest in a long series of policy reflections on…

July 25 2011, 3:20pm | Comments
Link James Gleick’s History of Information
Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information…

March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments
Link Where Do Animals Come From?
The origin of animals was one of the most astonishing and important transformations in the history of life. From single-celled ancestors, they evolved into a riot of complexity and diversity.…

March 20 2011, 5:37am | Comments
Link Technology Wants to Keep Evolving
Kelly argues that all technologies, from the stone ax to the computer chip, should be seen as a collectivity—the technium, which is “the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology…

February 22 2011, 1:03pm | Comments
Link ‘World Wide Mind’
Imagine it: a flower blossoming inside the brain, nanometer stalks splitting away from a micrometer stem. Expanding into every available capillary, touching every cubic millimeter of the brain, collecting terabytes…

February 17 2011, 4:40pm | Comments
Link On Resilience
A key feature of complex adaptive systems is their ability to self-organize along a number of different pathways with possible sudden shifts between states: A lake, for example, can exist…

December 16 2010, 4:09am | Comments
Link Colonial Studies
Our fascination with ants has led to engaging stories about them, from the Iliad’s Myrmidons to Antz’s Z, as well as a growing body of research by biologists. Though the…

October 12 2010, 3:09pm | Comments
Link Colonial Studies
Our fascination with ants has led to engaging stories about them, from the Iliad’s Myrmidons to Antz’s Z, as well as a growing body of research by biologists. Though the…

October 12 2010, 3:09pm | Comments
Link Ants and us
What do you think about when you think about ants? An aerial view perhaps, looking down at a line of ants moving along a trail. Go closer. If you stay…

October 11 2010, 3:38am | Comments
Link Ants and us
What do you think about when you think about ants? An aerial view perhaps, looking down at a line of ants moving along a trail. Go closer. If you stay…

October 11 2010, 3:38am | Comments
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May 3 2010, 9:38am | Comments
Link Uniformity and Variability: An Essay in the Philosophy…
If the planet needs us to speed up information, and slow down matter, what does this mean for the complex relationship between information and nature? There is a growing awareness…

May 3 2010, 9:35am | Comments
Link 'A Thousand Years of Non Linear History' :…
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History is one the most intelligent, stimulating, and rewarding books I have read in a long time - it even surpasses De Landa's previous War…

March 24 2010, 10:25am | Comments
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January 26 2010, 4:30pm | Comments
Link Divine Wilderness
PLANNING IS SOMETHING that people learned from God. The lesson might be said to have begun with the prescriptions God laid out for His earthly habitation among the Israelites: the…

January 8 2010, 10:02am | Comments
Link On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of…
We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over…

October 12 2009, 9:56am | Comments
Link How to Change the Song in your Head
You've been singing the theme to The Love Boat for hours now, and you're becoming unmoored. If a song is on an unfinished loop, "sing it through all the way,…

July 22 2009, 4:05pm | Comments
Metafilter The Various Workings of a Cube-Shaped Gallery | Ask… Imagine a cube-shaped building, with ten cube-shaped rooms along each side (10 rooms long, 10 high & 10 deep). Each cubular room has 4 walls, 1 ceiling and…

April 25 2007, 3:39am | Comments

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