Biology
The Honeybee Algorithm
In the philosophy of science there is a segment, not so familiar, but with sufficient identity that it deserves the name: evolutionary epistemology (EE). One of the goals of EE is to explain how biological […]
Month: September 2017
Biology
Cosmic “Looney Tunes”
We suffer from the feeling of cosmic loneliness. Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, summed up our geeky nature by asking a simple question: Where is everybody? All predictions […]
Philosophy
Rock’n’roll is dead but Mr Tambourine man is not
Dedicated to Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) an epitome of a rebel Lynn at Boston University c. 1980; Boston University Archives (courtesy of Dorion Sagan) The exuberant rebellion of youth against all sorts of conformity, ordinarily […]
Biology
Riders on the storm
Welcome to my blog! I am a professional scientist with over 25 years of working experience at Leiden, St Andrews, Cambridge and Brunel universities. I’m interested in biomolecules, cells, organisms, how organisms form societies, and […]