The Immortal Game – Maybe the Greatest Game of Chess Ever Played
In July 1851 two mathematics teachers, Prof. Adolf Anderssen (1818 -1879) from Breslau, and Lionel Kieseritzky (1806-1853) from what is now Estonia, played a game of chess at Simpsons on the Strand, a...
View ArticleInternet Cartography – Maps of the World Wide Web and other Cyber Geography
n the Beginning there was one....This is the first map of The Internet. It shows the first node on the ARPANET at the University California Los Angeles (UCLA) on the 2nd September 1969. Continue...
View ArticleConvergent, Iterative Optimization of Solutions – Why Solving some Problems...
For some problems the challenge is not to identify the solution. The real challenge is working out how to put the solution in place. Anyone who has setup a theodolite will understand what I mean....
View ArticleThe Emerging Science of Food Webs
Enough food webs have now been cataloged and described in detail for them to be studied as a general class of system using the techniques applied to the study of other networks. Continue reading →The...
View ArticleEmergence of Cooperation in Balinese Rice Farming
Balinese rice farmers acting in self interest and following a few simple rules have caused the emergency of a large scale system that tends to maximize rice yields given the prevailing constraints....
View ArticleThe Art of Turing Completion
As I was researching the invention of the computer I found a few sites that while only tangentially related to the subject at hand were definitely worthy of note Continue reading →The Art of Turing...
View ArticleEconomics and the Internet’s Large-Scale Topology
The distribution of nodes on the internet is fractal and a scale free network Continue reading →Economics and the Internet’s Large-Scale Topology Virtual Travelog
View ArticleComparing the 2001 World Trade Center Attack with the 1906 San Francisco...
What if the 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake occurred today? Continue reading →Comparing the 2001 World Trade Center Attack with the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Virtual Travelog
View ArticleThe Evolution of Cooperation – Social Software and the Shadow of the Future.
The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod is an outstanding book. First published in 1984 it has increased in significance with the evolution of the Internet. In the book Axelrod examines how...
View ArticleUnprecedented Phenomena. The Implications of the Oklo Fossil Reactors
In 1972 French scientists discovered that naturally occurring fission reactions had taken place in the Oklo uranium deposits in Gabon Africa. This unprecedented phenomenon has led to many lines of...
View ArticleThe Imortal Game
This is a painting I commissioned from Blair Bradshaw last year. It shows the final crushing move of one of the greatest games of chess ever played. Continue reading →The Imortal Game Virtual Travelog
View ArticleReinventing the Sacred by Stuart Kauffman
4 of 5 stars. This is the journal of a smart man grappling with discoveries at the edge of human knowledge. Kauffman tries to answer the question "what does it all mean" without retreating to religious...
View ArticleWhy Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
4 of 5 stars. It is hugely entertaining reading an academic, at the top of his game, build such an impressive case. The evidence is undeniable and overwhelming. Evolution is true. Continue reading →Why...
View ArticleThe Evolutionary Origins of Ritual, Music, and Dance
Religion, ritual, music, and dance, are human universals. It seems incredible to me that these are merely side effects, or cultural artifacts, that serve no evolutionary purpose. Time will tell if my...
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