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What’s in a Name? Insect Social Systems

Choosing a name for this site was tough. The interdisciplinary (or transdisciplinary) focus of my research is one issue. Most important to me was to allude to nature or biology with a term that...

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Metabolism: The sum of all biochemical processes involved in life

Definitions of "metabolism" from Answers.comme·tab·o·lism n.1. The chemical processes occurring within a living cell or organism that are necessary for the maintenance of life. In metabolism some...

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Everything Originates in Fire

My friend Alex Busby just returned from Chennai, India where he was working on visual effects for a feature film. He related to me a philosophical concept about connectedness that he encountered there....

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Privacy isn’t dead -- it never lived.

Privacy isn’t dead -- it never lived. Personal information is currency in a consumer society. It allows for prediction and strategy. Rewards cards, credit cards, contests, transponders, websites,...

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Architectures of Control v. Designing for Emergence

In the course of research for my Media Law paper, on Creative Commons and designing for emergence in law, I came across this excellent blog. In many ways this site might be considered the opposite of...

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