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Numbers by painting.
The Doors of perception website has posted a transcript of Neil Gershenfeld’s presentation on the work of MIT’s centre for Bits and Atoms. “a paintable computer, a viscous medium with tiny silicon...
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Wormsphere
From an interview with E.O.Wilson, author of Consilience: “Nematode worms, he says, account for four of every five animals living on Earth – and are so abundant that if the planet’s surface vanished,...
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Flatland / Logocosmos
Abbas at Aula.cc exerpts this from Scientific American: “…our universe, which we perceive to have three spatial dimensions, might instead be written on a two-dimensional surface, like a hologram. Our...
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Processing parallels
Sci-fi staple, the parallel universe, examined by Sci. A lot to take in here even with Maciej’s excellent bullet-point summary: “The first kind of parallel universe is an inevitable consequence of the...
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Fermi surfaces
Visualised and placed in a periodic table. Absolutely lovely – especially the way the visualisations bring home the relationships and progressions in the table of elements. Fantastic. » The Periodic...
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Blowing Melvin’s mind
Deep joy to be had from subscribing to Melvin Bragg’s “In our time” newsletter, that supports the Radio4 show of the same name. This week our hero, Melvin, describes having his mind blown early one...
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Planets, sweet.
Steve Bowbrick ruminates on the pace of unmanned planetary exploration, and if I read between the lines a little; the torrents of telemetric information and simulation that the next generation have...
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Before and after science (fiction)
To get going again, some words from our new sponsors. John Thackara, “In the Bubble” (if you haven’t read it yet, why not?): “…switch attention from science-[fiction] dominated futures to social...
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A Manhattan melange of “Macroscopes”
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Giant things that blog
After the BLDGBLOG lecture at UCL last week, Mark, Russell, James and myself retired to the Malborough Arms for post-match analysis; and Russell dropped on us the fact that Roll-Royce’s jet engines are...
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