Normally I share this sort of stuff on reader/buzz, but these amazing items from Ze Frank slipped through:
Posted in Cool Stuff | Tagged art, Cool Stuff |
By Raelifin | Published:
February 19, 2010
The more I study nature and biology, the more I see that anthropomorphism gets in the way of understanding animals as well. Certain birds, cats, dogs, and even rodents are intelligent, but thinking of their intelligence merely as inferior to humans is not the whole story. Different forms of intelligence have to be understood on [...]
By Raelifin | Published:
February 3, 2010
For a while I’ve been trying to figure out how to resolve the Fermi Paradox. For those of you who don’t know, the Paradox is, given what we know about life, the universe and everything, there should be a significant number of alien civilizations in our galaxy. The reasoning here boils down to the Drake [...]
By Raelifin | Published:
February 1, 2010
I use Google Reader a lot, and recently a “popular item” showed up on my reading list regarding how to resist the temptations of Satan. I poked into it just enough to get bored and start scrolling through the article until I saw this image:
Posted in Thoughts | Tagged memetics, Theology |
By Raelifin | Published:
January 27, 2010
I don’t know why I named it “Tide Pool”; there aren’t any tides. Oddly enough though, the creatures learn to move as if there were.
Yesterday I decided to play with some genetic programming. Though I found a neat GP resource, I decided to work from scratch and build a simulated tide-pool with algae/plants and animals [...]
