Posts by sarcozona
Complexity in biology – how much can we know?
E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge So the important questions are, first, do general organizing principles exist that allow a living organism to be reconstituted in full without recourse to brute force simulation of all its molecules and atoms? Second, will the same principles apply to mind, behavior, and ecosystems? Third, is there […]
Feminists Don’t Have a Sense of Humor
Berry Go Round #15
I’m a little late advertising this, but the 15th edition of Berry Go Round is up at A Neotropical Savanna. I particularly enjoyed Watcher’s posts on Costa Rican trees (and some of the bugs that inhabit them) and pinyon pine.
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Rejection
I apply for a bunch of awards and scholarships every year and usually end up with a giant stack of rejection letters and enough money to scrape by for the next year. After awhile, I got pretty accustomed to the rejections and really didn’t get upset about them – just more and more concerned about […]
What I’ve Noticed
I loved Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno on the sex lives of bugs. Now she’s got a marine version! Artificial intelligence and robots are getting better faster and faster. This robot has made unique scientific discoveries – from formulating the hypotheses to running experiments. This robot has a biological brain and can learn. On a related […]
Christianity isn’t concerned about women
Christianity is concerned about losing control of women’s bodies. The FDA has finally approved Plan B over the counter for teenage girls. It is very clear that the reason it wasn’t originally approved without a prescription for teenagers had everything to do with the Christian right’s terror of women’s sexuality and nothing to do with […]