Paradigm Hacker

I first learned about  synthetic biology about a year and a half ago when I uncovered the following video talk given by Andrew Endy at the MIT Museum.  I was very impressed by how essential his arguments were regarding the nature of professional biotechnology vs. other engineering disciplines. Ever since that first exposure I have been on the ...

Properties of complex behavior resulting from emergence 1)  VERY simple behavior on a lower level results in complex behavior no the group level 2)  These behaviors are computationally irreducible...  in other words, the rules that produce complex behavior are impossible to discover by observing the top-level behavior. Great podcast Emergence!

It would seem that WiTricity is the next generation in short-range power delivery and a potential replacement to the standard wall-socket of a home.  I am particularly impressed with the fact that the technology uses resinence to only engage devices that are specificly tuned to recieve power which should make them more efficent.  Takeaways: MIT researchers ...

Paul Ekman is one of the early pioneers in the field of expression classification evaluation.  He developed some of his centrial theories about fundamental things like the number of possible facial expressions a human face can make to the nature of facial expression and emotional correlaries.  Here are the takeaways: Human facial expressions are the same ...

Image via Wikipedia I have been watching the Seasteading Institute grow rapidly since it's inception in 2008 as I had been fixated on the idea of developing assets in the open ocean. I began to conduct extensive research into modern construction techniques employed for deep-water oil drilling and learned that there are ...