Month: April 2013
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Balancing Jack…
He can balance whatever you can think of. Only because he has patience. (1, 2) Balance sometimes seems nothing BUT inherently “natural”… Sometimes you need to make great efforts to achieve it… Could chaos be the natural order of the cosmos? PS. And no, I could not help but think that this is just another […]
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Non-competitive evolution, spaghetti, sauce…
Scientists have long observed that species seem to have become increasingly capable of evolving in response to changes in the environment. But computer science researchers now say that the popular explanation of competition to survive in nature may not actually be necessary for evolvability to increase. In a paper published this week in PLOS ONE, […]
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Saturn rings, meteors, Pythagoras…
Meteors sent ripples to Saturns rings. (1, 2) Oh, how delighted would Pythagoras be. To actually see the Universe play with its cosmic musical instruments… Imagine hovering in the dark space, watching the rings move. Listening to the silence!
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Holistic civilization… Can we accept it?
Archeologists unearth new information on the origins of Maya Civilization, which suggest that the Mayas were growing in parallel with the Olmecs. [1] It seems that the debate of whether that civilization was developed on its own or from the Olmec civilization will not be at rest in the near future. Both civilizations seem to […]
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From the stars inside bacteria… (literally)
Ancient bacteria may have chewed up the radioactive remains of a star that exploded more than 2 million years ago. [1] Iron-y is a fundamental part of the Cosmos. From being a powerful star, into the “guts” of the lowest living organism… Is there a more powerful way to illustrate the poetry of this world? […]
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