mindlace

In a lovely paper, Geoffrey Grinstein and Ralph Linsker write about synchronous activity in scale-free networks. Scale-free (also known as “small world”) networks have the property that no node is greater than N hops from any other. These gents show that this topology can persist over a node-set of arbitrary size. This handily mitigates a […]

An interesting article from Cognitive Daily, one of my favourite blogs, on how drumbeats alone can carry emotion. One of the things I’m curious about is whether these emotions could be conveyed to animals; in my last class on audio illusions, I made the argument that since we have specialized neural apparati for tying together […]

Here is a bit of me doing a reading from Tantra in Practice. Sadly I cannot remember the page I got it from. As a disclaimer, I don’t think I have a religious mind in the sense the quote talks about, though I aspire to.

For those following along at home, I’m very interested in the Cosmic Microwave Background because it is currently the best available evidence we have about large-scale structures in the universe, particularly the intriguing question of whether the universe is larger than we can possibly see.
I’d noticed that a gentleman had uncovered that some of the microwave […]

I have a bit of a fetish for shows that feature some sort of non-human vision. I even like the cheesy computer overlay of Terminator-vision and the pseudo IR of Predator-vision, but what I really like are attempts to show how things look to different animals, like how bees see color (they can see ultraviolet) […]

A soon to be published paper argues that there are many big bangs, and that some of them have inverse time. Most importantly, it suggests “In this never-ending cycle, [of big bangs] the universe never achieves equilibrium. If it did achieve equilibrium, nothing would ever happen. There would be no arrow of time.” I will […]

Frank Close:
“It is as if they are in an ideal prison, where the prisoners are completely free but can never escape.”