Behavior

Nov 222 min read

An Exercise in Middle Woodland Geometry V

The concept of time is so full of ambiguities and paradoxes that it is no wonder that many societies worship time and its mysteries.

Dec 10, 20239 min read

What are Categories? Human Categorization

These words are categories, terms in which one separates the world into objects or things.

Sep 8, 202314 min read

What is Choice?

The fact that humans do not make purely rational decisions has been established in psychology and is taken as a set of constraints or bounds

Jul 22, 202310 min read

Mixed Species Foraging in Birds

Mixed species foraging flocks of birds and other animals are common everywhere

Jun 10, 202319 min read

Mound Builders of Ohio: Part 1

The Hopewell culture culminates in a history that goes back thousands of years.

Apr 2, 202312 min read

What is the Dawn Chorus?

For diurnal animals, dawn and dusk are special times.

Jan 13, 202316 min read

What is a Chair?

… and what does it have to do with a crow using a tool or the origin of life?

Nov 24, 202222 min read

Complexity, Cooperation, and the Individual

As humans, we live inside our little heads and we have this illusion that we are separate from the world and our bodies.

Apr 24, 202217 min read

Human Consciousness, Theory of Mind, and Smart Animals

Whether consciousness or language in humans came first is an open question.

Feb 21, 20227 min read

Adventures in NFT land - a manifesto of Retro Generative Art

My wife and I decided to do a project together to create a collection of NFTs.

Dec 17, 202113 min read

Monogamy in Animals

Reproduction is, of course, an important part of any animal’s life history, and mating success is a driving force in evolution.

Jul 31, 20215 min read

Bitcoin is Shitcoin

This is the techno libertarian ideal. Which will hold true? What could possibly go wrong?

Apr 25, 20219 min read

The Controversy of Cooperation: Human Political Thought

The evolution of cooperation continues to be a major controversy in biology.

Mar 2, 20215 min read

Mexican Blue Jays (Aphelocoma Ultramarina)

all of a sudden the little birds were gone and three large Mexican Blue Jays had landed in the trees

Feb 15, 20216 min read

On Individuality

Radical individualism always devolves into an infantile state.

Feb 7, 20218 min read

Acorn Woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorus)

Acorn Woodpeckers are associated with regions containing multiple species of oak tree.