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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...

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On 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...

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Microscopic 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...

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Order 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...

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What 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...

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All 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...

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For 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...

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Mr 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...

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Dominoes 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...

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Profligate 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...

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A 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,...

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Stairway to …

Photo – (Stairway to…) Lisbon April 2012. Filed under: General, Images Tagged: Architecture, Human nature, Life, Lisbon, Natural vs Artificial, Photography, Society

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The 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...

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The 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...

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Aspen

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,...

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Midsummer 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...

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Real, 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...

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Not 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...

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A 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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