The Robot-Readable World – Blog – BERG
Wonderful musings from Matt on meeting the emerging machine intelligence halfway.
Tags: evolution
Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From | Magazine
You'll need to use Instapaper/Readability/Safari Reader to make it legible, but this conversation is well worth reading. Now I want to get those books.
Evolution and Creativity: Why Humans Triumphed - WSJ.com
Matt Ridley's new book sounds like a corker.
Canvas Test
Conway's Game of Life executed using the canvas element.
NCSE Resource
To counter the creationists' lists of "scientists who doubt evolution" here's a list of scientists named Steve who support Darwin's theory. (via Steven Pinker's Q&A after a lecture last week)
Biologists Helping Bookstores
A blog devoted entirely to reshelving books in their correct categories in bookstores, specifically the science and religion categories. I approve.
Co-evolution of neocortex size, group size and language in humans
The Dunbar number gets bandied about a lot in conversations about social networks these days. Here's the original paper that shows the research behind the oft-misused term.
The New Yorker: Game Master
A profile of Will Wright. I'm really looking forward to hearing him speak at SXSW this year.
CHARLES DARWIN HAS A POSSE! -- stickers in support of evolution
Brilliant! I need to get some sticker paper so I can print out this picture and put it on my laptop.
Spore Gameplay Video - Google Video
Spore fascinates me. It looks like the kind of thing that could change gaming forever.
The Wisdom of Parasites. The Loom: A blog about life, past and future
Seeing a full-grown wasp crawl out of a roach suddenly makes those Alien movies look pretty derivative.
"Tell The FCC To Stick It" by Cruisebox
Podcasting has an anthem.