This long posting contains some ideas and suggestions about the connection between evolution and fundamental particle physics. It is no theory, only a...
Earth-like planets may be more rare than thought -Nature News article reported by Philip Ball- In cosmic terms, our solar system could be special after all. We...
Living systems, the economy, the human mind, the human society and countries as a whole are complex adaptive systems. They are studied in economics,...
How can the universe be 156-158 billion light-years wide, if it is only 14-15 billion years old and started with a Big Bang ? If nothing is faster than the...
Is it an Agent, or just a Program? A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents Stan Franklin and Art Graesser http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~franklin/AgentProg.html Stan...
Complex systems are not new. Scientists have studied them for centuries in biology, medicine, psychology, sociology, economics and political science. But they...
Is the relativity principle an emergent principle ? R.B Laughlin from Stanford University has shown that the central paradox of black holes also occurs at a ...
Many physicists believe spacetime near the microscopic small Planck Scale consists of fluctuating arrangements of bubbles, called "quantum foam" or "spacetime...
Free-floating theories are according to Steven Weinberg (*) "theories that are applicable in a wide (though not unlimited) variety of very different contexts"....
... Amplified Intelligence: Machines as Brain Boosters Will machines make humans smarter or just more dependent on our calculators, car navigators, and kitchen...
On an unbearably hot day in August you arrive at the beach - Jones Beach, Santa Monica Beach or any other beach - and you see in front of you uncountable...
William Ford Gibson writes in his novel Neuromancer (1984): "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in...
Clifford A. Pickover mentioned this site in his group (at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CliffordPickover/): Linkdump is a kind of community-site where members...
... CALL FOR PAPERS ... The Third International Conference on Active Media Technology May 19-21, 2005 Kagawa International Conference Hall, Takamatsu, Kagawa,...
Plate tectonics is responsible for the complex surface of the earth (the name tectonics comes from the Greek for "builder", tekton). Repeated splitting and...
When I was in high school (38 years ago) I had an opportunity to attend a special presentation on plate tectonics at the Field Museum in Chicago. It was one...
Plate tectonics is not new, but a very fundamental discovery. The theory of "continental drift" was first proposed by the German scientist Alfred Wegener...
Researchers at UC Riverside and the University of Michigan have discovered a dramatic increase in human longevity that took place during the early Upper...
Stephen Jay Gould's book "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory" has 1500 pages and the weight of a washing machine. It is his attempt to "expand and alter the...
MIT site "Exploring Emergence" http://llk.media.mit.edu/projects/emergence/index.html Conway's Game of Life http://www.ibiblio.org/lifepatterns/ Mirek...
Prions, the twisted proteins usually linked to disease, could help organisms adapt to tough situations by subtly altering the proteins manufactured by a cell....
Heather True's Prion research was also reported at this BBC site: Rogue proteins give yeast an edge http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3569210.stm also...
As said before, in message Genes 148, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAS-Group/message/148 the difference between genes and memes is selfishness: good genes are...
In order to solve problems of a certain complexity you need tools with a similar complexity ? Take a look at these interesting quotes: The introduction of...
Many natural structures and phenomena, from coastlines to clouds, or from river networks to the branching airways in lungs, have the form of a fractal. But why...
This month there are two new papers from J.C. Sprott, a leading expert in chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics, and two new papers of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi's...
Hey Folks, Is anyone here familiar with study and applications (if any) of Epigenetics theory. I am a returning student attempting to clairify my study and...
... What do you mean with "Epigenetics" ? The study of heritable changes in gene function that occur without a change in the DNA sequence ? I guess you will...
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