beyond belief – 2007

Recordings from the second edition of this conference – Enlightenment 2.0 – are now available online.

google usage … nice

Very nice (and useful!) usage of Google search capabilities for real scientific info.

about fitness

John Wilkins wrote in his blog:
“Fitness is a property of a competing variant in a population. It means that X, whatever it might be biologically, is increasing in its frequency in a population faster than its competing variants. X can be a gene, or a trait, or even an entire organism’s form and functionality.
What fitness [...]

reading … (#3)

Ever wondered if John Nash’s story hinted also toward some “flavor” of synesthesia? Probably one of my all-time favorite experts in this area of study could clarify the issue …
UPDATE 2008! – Rama did it again!

beyond belief – 2006

Highly recommended Conference – a meeting of the brightest minds …

reading … (#2)

One of the books I am reading now is Richard Dawkin’s The Ancestor’s Tale. I like this passage:
“Biological evolution has no privileged line of descent and no designated end. Evolution has reached many millions of interim ends <…>, and there is no reason other than vanity – human vanity <…> – to designate any [...]

reading … (#1)

A friend of mine has recently recommended me an interesting subject of study, which will also constitute the starting point of my online notes. While I could never go back and record my previous “n” years of reading into something equivalent to today’s blogs, notes of such being lost in the many hand-written notes filed [...]