Bacteria still rule: Great Long Now seminar by Craig Venter (and Bonus!)
I finally got to listen to the Long Now seminar by Craig Venter. And, wow, was it great. If you’ve been a regular reader of mine, you know that I think Ve...
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Old calculators and future steampunk
Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge Originally uploaded by blackbeltjones Heh. My Dad also had some of these types of clunker calculators. Uh, I...
The turkey and the butcher
Just wanted to get this little ditty out: I was listening to a very interesting Long Now seminar by Nassim Taleb, about his insight into randomness, predictabil...
Thoughts on the Journey of Mankind
A Long Now post pointed to a cool animation showing the migration of humans over the past 160,000 years, since modern humans arose in Africa. There’s a lo...
Entropy is over-rated. Long live Complexity! (Bonus: The Venter)
Does everything tend towards Entropy? One of the first things we learn in chemistry is that everything tends towards entropy. How can that be? Whereas Steven Jo...
On the balance of top-down and bottom-up
Kevin Kelly is on of the founders of the Long Now Foundation, which you all know I am pretty fond of. He wrote an article (link below) recently on the balance o...
Craig Venter giving a Long Now seminar today (25feb08)
Dang, I was not able to finagle a trip to SFO to see this talk. But, if you live in the Bay Area, don’t miss this! Link: Long Now Seminars Craig Venter is...
Another great Long Now seminar: Juan Enriquez “Mapping Life”
Saying that the Long Now seminars are great is starting to feel repetitive. So, please go out and listen to ALL of them. I’ve caught up with all the semin...
Are Kosovars Albanians or Serbians?
I grew up thinking that nations should be the scale at which people are governed. I could not understand why Israel didn’t just make all the Palestinians ...
Something about the Clock of the Long Now chimes
The Clock of the Long Now will have chimes that play 10 tones, in unique combination, every day over the course of 10,000 years. I tend to listen to a bunch of ...