How I made my Game of Life: Contagion Mode, Rose Garden Massacre Edition
A few months back, I made a Multimode Game of Life (GoL) that could do the usual GoL, a mode with two populations coexisting, a mode where one population compet...
Tag: politics
Fascinated by fake news: AI, content, and being human
All the hubbub around fake news and the presidential elections got me thinking of AIs; how we find, review, and share content (a long term topic for me); how hu...
We interrupt our usual program …… Down With Everything
Thomas Friedman recently wrote about a discussion he had with Frank Fukyama on the two-volume opus Fukyama is working on “The Origins of Political Order.&...
The Last Moderate – NYTimes.com
“Cooper is the House’s conscience, a lonely voice for civility in this ugly era. He remembers when compromise was not a dirty word and politicians put cou...
Bourdain: Discovery killed ‘Brew Masters’ because big beer threatened to pull ads
Did Big Beer kill the TV show about Dogfish Head brewery? This short article will send you off in different directions trying to gauge the likelihood of this id...
Microbiopolitics and the Post-Pasteurian Age
Cross posted from my new fledgling blog Practical Microbes I can’t believe that I haven’t written about this amazing paper from MIT anthropologist, Heather Paxs...
In Defence of Cheese | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Cool manifesto Bookmarked in Delicious. Read this article…