Life Clouds
… meanwhile, … at the bottom of our food chains everything seems to be blooming. Here recently over the Atlantic within Spain (south) and France (east) at the bay of Biscay. Plankton (phyto-plankton...
View ArticleOn Life, aLife and Death
Fig. – Knight, Death and the Devil (1513). This is one of three metal engravings by Albrecht Dürer in a series called Meisterstiche (since I have started this blog, I have also chosen a woodcut...
View ArticleMicroscopic landscapes – from tiny Biology to Computer Science
“There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom“, ~ Richard Feynman (referring to NanoTechnology). There are huge life scales in our world with which we are not acquainted to. While some prefer to wonder about...
View ArticleOrder out of Disorder
“Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only...
View ArticleWhat Is Life? (a pivotal moment and question in the history of planet Earth)
Book – Erwin Schrödinger (1944), “What Is Life?” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (my edition is from 2002 – book cover above). “…living matter, while not eluding the “laws of physics” as...
View ArticleAll those ramus…
Drawing (Pedigree of Man, 1879) – Ernst Haeckel‘s “tree of life”, Darwin‘s metaphorical description of the pattern of universal common descent made literal by his greatest popularizer in the German...
View ArticleFor future reference
Figure – Poker final hand rankings. Poker is a typical example of bounded rationality in our daily lives. Without having all the information available, you still have to make a decision. In one of his...
View ArticleMr Charles Darwin as seen by Mr Peter Greenaway
Darwin by Peter Greenaway (1993) – Although British director Peter Greenaway is best known for feature films like The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Prospero’s Books, and The Pillow Book, he...
View ArticleDominoes I
Photo – (Dominoes I) Left alone in the previous night, an empty dominoes table at Sanlúcar de Guadiana (one of my favorite places – taken last weekend; Oct. 2 2011). Filed under: General, Images...
View ArticleProfligate Nature
Photo – (Profligate Nature) Sintra Nov. 6 2011. Photo – (Repeated Profligate Nature) Sintra Nov. 6 2011 (click to enlarge). Filed under: General, Images Tagged: Human nature, Life, Natural vs...
View ArticleA tiny grain of sand
[...] In conclusion, much elegant work has been done starting from activated mono-nucleotides. However, the prebiotic synthesis of a specific macromolecular sequence does not seem to be at hand,...
View ArticleStairway to …
Photo – (Stairway to…) Lisbon April 2012. Filed under: General, Images Tagged: Architecture, Human nature, Life, Lisbon, Natural vs Artificial, Photography, Society
View ArticleThe Seventh Seal (1957)
“I met Death today. We are playing chess. (…) My life has been a futile pursuit, a wandering, a great deal of talk without meaning. I feel no bitterness or self-reproach because the lives of most...
View ArticleThe rhizome century
Video – Lynn Hoffman (social worker, link) talks about a shift that has been taking place in our world, a shift that simmered in the background for many years and has recently erupted onto the world...
View ArticleAspen
Photo – Venation network of young Populus tremuloides (quaking aspen) leaf (4X). By Benjamin Blonder, David Elliott (2011), University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,...
View ArticleMidsummer night’s swarm
Nocturnal moth trails – Fluttering wings leave lacy trails as moths beat their way to a floodlight on a rural Ontario lawn. The midsummer night’s exposure, held for 20 seconds, captured some of the...
View ArticleReal, unreal, surreal
“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs” ~ Salvador Dalí. The photo, which dates from 1969, depicts the 65-year-old Catalan surrealist Salvador Dalí emerging from a Paris subway station led by his trusty giant...
View ArticleNot in chaos, at the λ=0.273 vicinity of it
Photo – “O caos é uma ordem por decifrar” (Portuguese), that is… “Chaos is an order yet to be deciphered“, a quote from the Nobel Prize in Literature (1998) José Saramago [Lisbon, V. Ramos, 2013]. In...
View ArticleA new Portugal
A new Portugal – I had a quite weird dream last night. Probably due to the recent super full moon, during my sleep, I imagined that all the sea coast waters suddenly retreated around 1000 meters...
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