evolution

Running with feet

2009/08/26 08:35 PM Filed in: running | health

Wired weighs in on the (crazy) barefoot debate.
vibram_3

Tags: running, barefoot, fitness, health, evolution, shoes

Empireal disintegration.

2009/11/23 05:58 PM Filed in: communication

Tags: empires, disintegration, evolution, data, visualization

Slime mold and the Tokyo subway system

2010/02/08 02:59 PM Filed in: contagion

Slime mold hungry. Slime mold build op-tee-mul network.

Science Express article here (open access),
Science Magazine article here and accompanying Perspectives
piece here.
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Reference:
A. Tero et al.,
“Rules for Biologically Inspired Adaptive Network Design”
Science, Vol. 237, pp. 439-442, 2010.

Tags: slime mold, optimality, evolution, robustness

Evolution and Goodness

2011/01/20 11:55 PM Filed in: social phenomena

Radiolab podcast: An Equation for Good.

radiolab-2

Tags: cooperation, evolution, altruism, georgeprice, radiolab

Of possible interest

fossicking for truths

Running with feet

Empireal disintegration.

Slime mold and the Tokyo subway system

Evolution and Goodness