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An Exercise in Middle Woodland Geometry VI
To say that a culture reaches fluorescence is to say that a culture acts like a flower, it builds up to some monumental or beautiful peak
Jan 2438 min read


An Exercise in Middle Woodland Geometry IV
For thousands of years before European contact, the peoples of eastern North America have lived along the banks of the region's many rivers.
Sep 11, 202466 min read


An Exercise in Middle Woodland Geometry III
III - A mathematical construction is a mechanical physical act that is directly related to the physical act of constructing a structure.
May 20, 202429 min read


Mastodon Posts
Last 5 months' posts on Mastodon
Apr 30, 20237 min read

What is a Chair?
… and what does it have to do with a crow using a tool or the origin of life?
Jan 13, 202316 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.
Nov 24, 202222 min read

Statement of Content
I have been wondering what to call what I’ve been writing.
Aug 6, 20221 min read


Coherent Structures: Part 1, Clouds and Ocean Vortexes
Humans are excellent at seeing patterns and categorizing what they see. Some are only imagination, others form the basis of our science.
Jun 18, 202214 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.
Feb 21, 20227 min read

Bitcoin is Shitcoin Part II
How does a technology supposedly based on the expansion of human freedom need an autocrat to force people to use it?
Jan 24, 202212 min read


Is Oumuamua a seed?
Oumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object.
Nov 6, 20218 min read

What is Mathematics?
Just what is mathematics? This is a question that would seem very easy and turns out to be very hard.
Aug 21, 20219 min read

Bitcoin is Shitcoin
This is the techno libertarian ideal. Which will hold true? What could possibly go wrong?
Jul 31, 20215 min read


Along the Rio Flag
Crab Apple trees were planted all over Flagstaff in the 1950s.
Jun 11, 20212 min read


On Individuality
Radical individualism always devolves into an infantile state.
Feb 15, 20216 min read


On Ignorance
ignorance can be dangerous to those who are ignorant of their ignorance
Jan 16, 20215 min read


Herd Stupidity
I have been hearing the term “herd immunity” being bandied about in sometimes very dangerous ways.
Oct 13, 20207 min read


Viruses as Complex Adaptive Systems
Epidemics are as old as human cities, the first recorded mention is between 1200 BC and 800 BC in Babylon.
Sep 6, 202010 min read


Maps, Metaphors, Similes, Analogies, and Cognitive Maps
What is a metaphor? A metaphor links two seemingly disparate objects directly,
Jun 21, 20206 min read


Mathematics and the Embodied Mind
What is the mind and what is the body? Do they exist together on are they somehow separate?
Apr 4, 20204 min read
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