Sean Nee, "The Great Chain Of Being" Nature Vol 435, 26 May 2005 Our persistence in placing ourselves at the top of the Great Chain of Being suggests we have...
A computer consumes energy and produces heat, which is related to disorder or "entropy". Similarly, all living (and self-organizing) systems consume order,...
The Virgo consortium, an international group of astrophysicists from the UK, Germany, Japan, Canada and the USA has today (June 2nd) released first results...
As of 2003, there are about six billion human beings, each with their own life story. Between 25 and 100 billions more have lived and died in the past,...
Pattie Maes wrote in her agent paper from 1994 in the conclusion: "We need a better understanding of the underlying principles. In particular, it is important...
Stationary State Structure of a Random Copying Mechanism over a Complex Network César A. Hidalgo, Francisco Claro, and Pablo A. Marquet SFI Working Paper...
Are the most fundamental laws of nature beyond the grasp of human minds? John Barrow said: "There is no reason why the most fundamental aspects of the laws of ...
Famous Quotes from Arthur Koestler (British novelist, journalist, and critic, 1905-1938) "The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act...
The arXiv site needs roughly a day between submission and public access/announcement. It is now public available, see http://arxiv.org/list/nlin.AO/recent...
Richard Dawkins, "The Atheist," Article from Salon.Com http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/ (An interesting interview with Richard Dawkins....
Russ Abbott has written a new paper on emergence with the title "Emergence Explained", which has been submitted to the MIT journal Artificial Life. A draft is...
Tamas Vicsek (http://angel.elte.hu/~vicsek/) is Professor of Biological Physics in Hungary, and works on flocking, collective behavior, pattern formation,...
Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems ...
I wonder why nobody of Google's scientists, software engineers and managers seem to have an own homepage at Google? They have 10,000 servers and no space for...
There is no big mystery behind the success of Skype and Kazaa. Both promised to deliver interesting things (mp3 or music files) or services (telephony) for...
Among the people who challenge a prediction on "Long Bets" are Ray Kurzweil (Bet 1) and Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google (Bet 4) Bet 1: By 2029 no computer - or...
Linden Lab, the creators of "Second Life", describe the implementation of a true MMOG (Massively multiplayer online game): "An online world that is comprised...
Greg Egan is probably Australia's most successful contemporary science fiction author. He was born in Perth in 1961, has a BSc in Mathematics from the...
NYTimes.com Book Review by KEAY DAVIDSON of "A Different Universe" http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/19/books/review/19DAVIDSO.html First Chapter of "A Different...
"New Scientist" Article by Mark Buchanan "Discovering The True Nature Of Reality" Abstract "If Einstein was right, we must sacrifice either free will or...
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