Patterns in Nature: Waves and Spirals. Patterns In Nature: Waves and Spirals by Douglas Barnes The information here will be instructive regarding the functioning of the universe (of which the designer should have at least a rough grasp).
It is useful when considering the temporal aspects of growth (i.e. how things grow over time), but is only marginally useful as a physical design template. It does, however, happen to be really fascinating. Microplexes. This is a transcript of a talk delivered at the Bartlett school of Architecture on March 24th 2010, as part of a series of seminars held by the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London.
This is my first academic seminar, in which I lay out some of my research aims and their conceptual underpinnnings. You can see the original presentation in the format it was delivered here. Www.danerwin.com/research/pdf/enrichment_and_brain_cell_growth.pdf. Steroids. Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Turing's Neural Networks. By Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot © Copyright B.J.
Copeland, D. Proudfoot September 2000 Modern Connectionism. Have you tried to understand your network? - Random generation of network models. Have you ever played the board game "Guess who?
". For those who have not experienced childhood (because it might be the only reason to ignore this board game), this is a game consisting in trying to guess who the opponent player is thinking of among a list of characters - we will call the one he chooses the "chosen character". These characters have several characteristics such as gender, having brown hair or wearing glasses. To find out, you are only allowed to ask questions expecting a yes-no answer. This game has been expanded to a further complexity through the funny and impressive website: Akinator. The software tries to guess who we are thinking of by asking yes-no questions.
Gnucleus_graph_large.gif (960×934) The Internet map. Nuclei. © Else C .Vellinga Lab Original publication: Mycena News, April 2009 Birth, copulation, and death.
That’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks” (T.S. Elliot), but not when you are a mushroom. Mushrooms are unique in many ways but no other organism has a life cycle like a fungus. As if the standard fungal life cycle were not fascinating enough, the exceptions are even more mind boggling. Life-cycle.jpg (640×687) Ken Wilber. Kenneth Earl "Ken" Wilber II (born January 31, 1949, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American writer and public speaker.
He has written and lectured about mysticism, philosophy, ecology, and developmental psychology. His work formulates what he calls Integral Theory.[1] In 1998 he founded the Integral Institute.[2] Biography[edit] Wilber was born in 1949 in Oklahoma City. In 1967 he enrolled as a pre-med student at Duke University.[3] He became inspired, like many of his generation, by Eastern literature, particularly the Tao Te Ching. Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez: Richard Rodriguez: 9780553272932: Amazon.com. The Uses of Literacy (Media, Communication, and Culture in America): Richard Hoggart, Andrew Goodwin, John Corner: 9780765804211: Amazon.com. Richard Hoggart. Herbert Richard Hoggart FRSL (born 24 September 1918) is a British academic whose career has covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture.
Career[edit] The Uses of Literacy. The Uses of Literacy is a book written by Richard Hoggart and published in 1957, examining the influence of mass media in the United Kingdom.
The book has been described as a key influence in the history of English and Media Studies and in the founding of Cultural Studies.[1][2] Massification of Culture[edit] The Uses of Literacy was an attempt to understand the changes in culture in Britain caused by "massification". Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez. Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (ISBN 0-553-27293-4) is a 1982 autobiography by Chicano intellectual Richard Rodriguez.
The book, written as several separate essays, narrates Rodriguez's educational history. In general, Rodriguez laments that as he furthered his education, eventually finishing a Ph.D. in English Literature, he became increasingly alienated from his family. As his interests grew, his family's generally did not, resulting in a diverse gap in shared interests. Having become fluent in the language of the intellectual community, he lost touch with the cultural values that he once held in common with his family.
His autobiography also includes an instance where he turned down a potentially lucrative job offer due to the implication that it was extended on the basis of his race and not his scholarship. The Scottish Chapbook Project. Growing out of an earlier tradition of inexpensive ballad literature, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chapbooks were small publications that contained songs, poems, political treatises, folk stories, religious tracts, and all manner of short texts.
Their (often anonymous) printers produced what they thought would sell, even if that meant "borrowing" from other sources. (The eighteenth-century poet Allan Ramsay wrote in his "Address to the Town Council of Edinburgh" of the chapbook printer "Lucky Reid" who "spoil'd my sense, and staw my cash. ")