ghosts of luca pacioli
Last week in Napoli I revisited the Capodimonte museum and its amazing collection of paintings. At some point I found myself face to…
Category Archives: umwelt
osmotic growth
osmotic flowers
I’ve just finished reading a book written in 1910 by Stéphane Leduc, a professor at the medical school in Nantes. I…
that which moves does not move by counting
Thanks to the advice of Crystalpunk i’m now reading the work of Peter Cariani, especially his 1989 thesis “On the Design of Devices…
best puzzle ever
About two years ago I came across the amazing applet called Organic Builder made by Tim Hutton and I think this was my…
plants as inventors
As part of (as always) escalating research for an essay I’m writing I’ve recently been reading this little book: “Die Pflanze als Erfinder”…
home in the sky
The result of a charming bug in Google Sky: when you change from Earthview to Skyview, it keeps displaying your earthly placemarks. So…
inorganic life in plasmacrystals ?
a plasmacrystal
from New Scientist:
“According to a new simulation, electrically charged dust can organise itself into DNA-like double helixes that behave in…