Pando (tree) Pando (Latin for "I spread"), also known as The Trembling Giant,[1][2] is a clonal colony of a single male quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) determined to be a single living organism by identical genetic markers[3] and assumed to have one massive underground root system. The plant is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000,000 kg (6,600 short tons),[4] making it the heaviest known organism.[5] The root system of Pando, at an estimated 80,000 years old, is among the oldest known living organisms.[6][7] Pando is located 1 mile southwest of Fish Lake on Utah route 25.[8] in the Fremont River Ranger District of the Fishlake National Forest, at the western edge of the Colorado Plateau in South-central Utah, at N 38.525 W 111.75.
During intense fires, the organism survived underground, with its root system sending up new stems in the aftermath of each wildfire. Pando was researched by Burton V. A trunk or stem of Pando ...quaking aspen regularly reproduces via a process called suckering. How Kiyoshi Izumi Built the Psych Ward of the Future by Dropping Acid. Photo via Flickr / CC.
He walked into a warp. As Kiyoshi "Kiyo" Izumi toured a select few of post-war Saskatchewan's aging mental hospitals, absorbing the wards' layouts and interviewing patients along the way, the Canadian architect grappled with hallmark features of the 1950s-era clinical milieu. Otherwise neutral accoutrements flung him into a centripetal mindfuck. Phantasms crept out of slim gaps between mirrored tiles that lined the hallways, now the hyper-reflective, mocking sheen of a personal Hell that collapsed in on itself the longer Izumi fought, futilely, to look away. Recessed utility closets swung open like massive, gaping mouths that had him convinced he'd be vacuumed down the wormhole of rabbits. There were no clocks, no calendars; time, to say nothing of his or any patient's temporal bearings, simply did not exist, which made remembering when to swing through the nurses station, a pill counter-turned police station, damn near impossible.
He couldn't take it. Emergent Phenomena in Nature. Nature offers many familiar examples of emergence, and the Internet is creating more.
The following examples of emergent systems in nature illustrate the kinds of feedback between individual elements of natural systems that give rise to surprising ordered behavior. They also illustrate a clear trade off between the number of elements involved in the emergent system and the complexity of their individual interactions. The more complex the interactions between elements, the fewer elements are needed for a higher-level phenomenon to emerge. Hurricanes and sand dunes form from vast numbers of very simple elements whereas even small groups of birds can exhibit flocking behavior. What is the lesson for multicellular computing?
It behooves us to better understand emergence in complex dynamic systems. Hurricanes Hurricanes emerge from mutual positive feedback between wind, humidity, evaporation of sufficiently warm ocean surface waters and Coriolis effects. Sand Dunes. Terence McKenna. Noosphere. The Scale of the Universe 2. Omega Point. The Omega Point is the purported maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which some theorize the universe is evolving.
The term was coined by the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955). According to Teilhard the universe is constantly evolving towards higher levels of material complexity and consciousness, a hypothesis that Teilhard called the Law of Complexity/Consciousness. Teilhard postulates this process results in an absolute, completed whole, which in his view is the actual cause of our Universe's increasing development. The Geography of Happiness According to 10 Million Tweets - Alexis C. Madrigal. The happiest city in America is Napa, California -- and the saddest all swear too much.
Red states are relatively happier. Blue states are relatively less happy. Gray states are neutral. Richard Spruce. Richard Spruce 1864 taken upon his return from Brazil Richard Spruce (10 September 1817 – 28 December 1893) was an English botanist.
One of the great Victorian botanical explorers, Spruce spent 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to its mouth, and was one of the first Europeans to visit many of the places where he collected specimens.[1] The plants and objects collected by Spruce (mostly in Brazil) from 1849 to 1864 form an important botanical, historical and ethnological resource, and have been indexed at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, at Trinity College Dublin, and at the University of Manchester.[2] Spruce cultivated bitter bark quinine, making the drug widely available for the first time. The bark had historically been used by native South Americans as a cure for malaria.[3] Early life[edit] As a child, Spruce "showed much aptitude for learning, and at an early age developed a great love of nature. Career[edit] Quotations[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Pearson, M.
Philosophy. Psychology. Anthropology. Nutrition & Behavior - Russell Blaylock, M.D. Symphony of Science.