Randomness is one of the basic principles of contemporary culture. It underlies contemporary models of the universe from the very large (everything in space and time) to the very small (subatomic effects). […]
Some Clarity on Randomness
Water and Light, Part 2
This post is for anyone who loves to look at water or who enjoys being made out of the stuff, for Sigrun in Norway, who gets to live right beside it in […]
Water and Air
In water, things achieve a true essence… That’s because on the earth, the sun meets water. It creates trees, and those other trees, that are like looking at myself in a language […]
Put That Android Phone Down Right Now!
This is cool. Here’s a conscious moment at the mouth of Lower BX Creek… Willows Being Willows. Water Being Water. And here’s what the subconscious mind sees… The Sky is Water Do […]
Lake Shells (Not Sea Shells)
In salt water, there’s salt and beautiful purple mussels. That’s a fine and wonderful thing. In fresh water, though, such as Okanagan Lake here in the foggy mountains of winter, there are […]
God and Evolution in the Age of Information
I’ve been showing you patterns in the leaves, and patterns of birds. Here they are together. One version of the theory of evolution holds that it’s all survival of the fittest, that […]
The Simple Math of Global Warming
Before there was photography, there was a philosopher called Fichte, who was driven out of his university classroom by a riot and hid out in a little hotel in the country, behind […]
New Snow: When Zero Gets Real
I’ve been talking about zeroes lately, and suggested that a mathematics without zero would be a mathematics of unity. It wouldn’t lead to contemporary technical society or economics, or even the computer […]
Zero, Eternity, Genetics and You
Take a look at these brown-eyed susans after the flower petals have been shed … It looks like hundreds, but it’s only one. There only ever has been one. Take a look […]
The Beauty of Winter
The immense wealth of colonial Brazil made Lisbon into the first modern city. The money for all the lavish spending was laundered through British banks, who used it to build an empire. […]
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