iRobot’s Soft Mobile Morphing Robot
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Because in the encyclopedia of nature, wheels are rarely mentioned.
Rosennean Complexity and other interests
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Because in the encyclopedia of nature, wheels are rarely mentioned.
The Journal of Biology has begun an interesting thematic series entitled “Ockham’s Broom“[1], which they describe thusly:
Ockham’s broom is an implement conceived by Sydney Brenner as the device whereby inconvenient facts are swept under the carpet. This is common practice in biological research where the facts often cannot be explained all at once; but in […]
This PDF [1] contains the currently known errata for Aloisous Louie’s More Than Life Itself [2]. Aloisius has confirmed these. Fortunately, they are few, only typographical in nature, and none of them are too serious. If anyone happens to find any others, please let me know and I will update the PDF.
References
[1] ML Errata.pdf
[2] Louie, […]
Alan Levin has published the paper “A Top-Down Approach to a Complex Natural System: Protein Folding” in Axiomathes. The abstract:
We develop a general method for applying functional models to natural systems and cite recent progress in protein modeling that demonstrates the power of this approach. Functional modeling constrains the range of acceptable structural models of […]