Relax in Nature
Relax in Nature
Clever people try to change the world. Wise people change themselves.
Word of the day: Cacocracy - Goverment rule by the worst and least able people.
Scientists find there are 70% fewer pollinators, due to air pollution
Air pollution significantly reduces pollination by confusing butterflies and bees, lessening their ability to sniff out crops and wildflowers
Study Shows that Bees Love Hemp, Which is Wonderful News for the Environment and the World
“Industrial hemp can play an important role in providing sustained nutritional options for bees during the cropping season.”
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison
The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon. Oil on canvas painting by Edward Poynter, 1890.
A Conway 'Game of Life' Conjecture Settled After 29 years
In 1992 John Conway raised a question about the patterns in his famous mathematical Game of Life: "Is there a Godlike still-life, one that can only have existed for all time (apart from things that don't interfere with it)?" Conway closed his note by adding "Well, I'm going out to get a hot dog now..."
Ilkka Törmä and Ville Salo, a pair of researchers at the University of Turku in Finland, have found a finite configuration in Conway's Game of Life such that, if it occurs within a universe at time T, it must have existed in that same position at time T-1 (and therefore, by induction, at time 0)... The configuration was discovered by experimenting with finite patches of repeating 'agar' and using a SAT solver to check whether any of them possess this property.
Other Game of Life-related news:
An interview with Cleve Backster, who's seminal work on primary perception was ahead of its time.
Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy
"Be who you are and say how you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind." — Dr. Seuss
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“There is no truth in news and no news in truth” - Russian Izvestia and Pravda adage