How Many Bird's Can you Find in My Image? Say No to Killing Birds!

BIRDS ON THE LINE

NO WE ARE NOT LIKE THOSE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

AND AMERICA WHO SHOOT THEM OFF!

I once knew an American whose wife decided to divorce him because he would sit at the window with a pellet gun and shoot at birds on the electricity line. Enough already!

SEED Magazine and Architectural Design - Paola Antonelli

COUNT THE COWS - THERE WERE 17 AT THE TIME

THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN

Farmers have made a living raising cattle for more that 5 millenia. That's long time. My very own ancestors raised cattle for over one thousand years in the hills of Devonshire, England. Many of my cousins are raising cattle now. So raising cattle is not essentially wrong, but raising a vastly scaled up number of cattle in an unsuitable environment just may be.

The same is true of architecture and designs of human habitats. I enjoy visits to Prince Charle's project in Poundbury in Dorset, near where Thomas Hardy wrote situated his Mayor of Casterbridge, the world's most depressing book. Don't read it. You will be depressed for years, if you don't commit suicide earlier! Nevertheless, there is something very positive about Poundbury and the wonderful variety of homes to be found there.

However, when I looked more closely at the building of the homes, I was somewhat disappointed. You have to go and look for yourself. Architects can get away with inferior work if they are not kept on their toes, even at the Royal Dutchy.

Paola Antonelli, featured in SEED magazine's April 2008, edition, is a reader of fractal architecture. Wow! An observation of Mandelbrot, also featured in the magazine, is that most of modern architecture is cheap with buildings that are absolutely abominable. Hear! Hear!

In fact, my observation, be it very humble, is that the addiction of much architecture to Roman design is at the source of Western Civilizations direction towards total annihilation of the human race. Yes, the Romans planted seed in the Western mind that are leading it to self destruct and carry the world down with it. OK! Enough! My mind is built to see long term trends and tendencies in history, and my emotions sense something is very wrong with linear architecture. That is why I think fresh minds such as those of Paola Antonelli are a wonderful gift to global creation of a better environment. Is she the Buckminster Fuller of the modern age? I don't know. But, she is very refreshing. Now if she and Charles Windsor could get together and help old Poundbury out, what a wonderful range of possibilities could follow!

If you want to see a real village as it could be then visit Maiden Castle nearby and study the local hill forts and round home non-linear communities that existed in 50 AD, the period of my Wuh Lax book series. We still have a lot to learn from my early British ancestors who lived before the arrival of those damn Roman conquerors.

Its a Mandelbrot Universe - Or is it?

IS OUR UNIVERSE DESIGNED LIKE NATURE?

Those that have heard of Benoit Mandelbrot know that he is a creative mathematician that has contributed great things to the science of non-linear mathematics and in particular the world of fractals.

When I look at a flower like the one in the image above, it occurs to me that our universe may be constructed in a dynamic way similar to the way that nature grows a flower. Add scale and the ability to read other waves in the universe to our demensional capacity, and a fifth demensional human might look down upon the universe as a vast garden of flowers.

That we now don't see it, doesn't mean it ain't so, and, maybe, the sentient creatures of this enlarged world wonder where God is?

Reviews Of Blogs on Science - SEED scienceblogs.com

NONE OF THESE GUYS ARE PRESENTLY ALIVE

RIBS! OR IS IT 'RIP'S

I am in love, and not only with the creatures of nature. I am in love with good science and good commentary on science. That being, I will occasionally review good science blogs, or places to find good science blogs.

I must say that I am very impressed with the publication SEED as it emerges in issue 15 for April 2008. This is a magazine worth buying and putting on your bookshelf.

It has wonderful imagery, which appeals to me as an artist.

Its ink does not come off onto fingers, which is good for me as I am allergic to inks. In the past, I could not read the Economist magazine because of the lethal inks, for me at least, in the front cover. I have some problem reading the glossy pages because of the reflected light. In this respect The New Sceintist magazine, which also has great imagery, is less aggravating on the eyes. Gloss means reflecting light and is great for a front page, but harder to read over long periods, and I am a voracious reader of science and design.

The articles are decidedly uplifting and enlightening with good coverage.

Lots of liquour ads for those that have this addiction, and cars.

Middle advertising bits that fall out have to be tossed.

To get the best of it on a level table, you need to fold the pages down, which is work, but then you might want to tear the pages out because they are gorgeously coloured and strikingly presented.

If you like a good read of recent developments in science, this magazine should be on your coffee table, for sure. Good work guys. I'm impressed, and the price is very reasonable!