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Can Information Rise From Randomness?
...are. To coin a classically mixed neologism, we are Homo enigmatus — in more ways than one. Evolution has made us cognitive beings by giving us small internal rewards whenever...
Entanglement Made Simple
...to assign unique, independent states to several q-ons. Similar considerations apply to the evolution of a single q-on in time. We say we have “entangled histories” when it is impossible...
A Unified Theory of Randomness
...curve (for Schramm-Loewner evolution) as the canonical noncrossing random curve. [No Caption]Schramm’s work on SLE curves was a landmark in the study of random objects. It’s widely acknowledged that Schramm,...
Seeing Time Through a Liquid Crystal Display
...stars and planets can form due to gravity and how the chemicals required for life could have originated by prebiotic chemical evolution. With these ideas in mind, let me describe...
Science Evolves. Will Science Education?
...that a fundamental theory like evolution is on shaky ground — it is not. But rather that scientists are still debating some of the specific mechanisms by which evolution produces...
How Life Turns Asymmetric
...Lefty, a gene that suppresses Nodal activity on the embryo’s right. The Nodal-Lefty team appears to be the most important genetic pathway that guides asymmetry, said Cliff Tabin, an evolutionary...
How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains
...evolutionary biologist Peter Wheeler proposed the “expensive tissue hypothesis” as a possible answer. The underlying logic is straightforward: Human brain evolution likely required a metabolic trade-off. In order for the...
How Can Math Help Beat Cancer?
...mentioned in the introduction evolution of cancer. And maybe some of our listeners are thinking evolution of primates, evolution of bacteria. It’s a little unfamiliar to speak about cancer as...
How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?
...of what we call the Multicellularity Long-Term Evolution Experiment… M.U.L.T.E.E… MuL-TEE… absolutely a pun. It’s also named in homage of the long-term evolution experiment, which is a 70,000 and counting...