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Shocker folks, the i-pad will grow in popularity, but won't change cultural institutions, values or belief systems much. Gene testing and diagnostics will change cultural institutions, values and belief systems. These are some old gene chips to the left. I used to help run a project that played around with these. A firm called Counsyl is releasing a new chip →…read more Wow, This is a great article in the Atlantic about the group behaviour in rhesus Monkeys and potential analogs in those big bald chatty apes we know as Homo Sapiens Sapiens "elder wise human". The article hints about the functioning of a genetic variable and how it interacts within a social environment. Here is the teaser video which only hints at a small →…read more I used to be Chief Analyst for Starlab an Advanced research lab modeled on the MIT media lab in Europe. I have also spent 2 years researching renewable energy investments for hedge funds etc. The major issues of energy are storage density, distribution, availability and cost. My own personal storage bias for the future is ultra-capacitors. The energy technology shown below →…read more Visualizing relationships, be they mathematical, cultural or physical is a powerful skill. Here is a great site about an interesting quest for visualizing prime numbers. I am a big fan of Phi, the Golden Ratio. One of the best books on this is Mario Livio's The Golden Ratio. Livio is a serious mathematician, historian and story teller who brings alive →…read more  Leave a comment  Uncategorized  Art & design, Books, Math, Quantitative analysis, Science, Thinking in Pictures Wow! I jsut finished this article on optogenetics in wired. Basically it involves targeted neuron therapies involving the typical stuff of gene therapy with an amazing optical twist. 1. isolated gene for expressing protein (in this case light sensitive from algae) 2. A benign viral vector for transduction or other method for transfection (ie. slipping the gene into host cells →…read more
Stare at the red dot in the center of the figure for a minute or two. Just caught this on Michael Covel's Trend following: Watch group think in action as individuals deny what they sees with their own eyes. Most likely you would to. Please question everything, even if it is makes you seize up for a day or two. We are social animals and far less individual than we like to believe. Our greatest cage is →…read more I have often referred to a type of financial risk as "oxygen" risk. Oxygen risk is anything so common and familiar that it is taken for granted. In that vein I offer something to watch that is both interesting and important, a video about clean water technology. Most of the readers of this blog will take little interest in this, but →…read more Leave a comment Uncategorized Anthropology & Marketing, Behavior, Books, Making things better, Science, Technology The original Black Swan story was interesting because it correctly used an ecological model and behavorial shift to show a "surprise", ie. the discovery of a Black Swan. The ecology was the new environments which allowed for the discovery of the black swan and the behavioral shift was the exponential rate of increase in exploration of those new ecologies. →…read more For those of you who get it, you will realize this video is a lot deeper in terms of symbolic meaning, linkage, learning and evolutionary creation of symbolic and applied knowledge. For the rest, enjoy the pretty coral. Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the |
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