by lifepatternsemerging | May 2, 2019 | Beauty in science, symmetry in science
While not known for a finely coiffed hair and flawless visage, Einstein was motivated by the pursuit of scientific beauty. He looked at the universe with awe, always convinced that a great range of physical phenomena could be elegantly explained by a few simple...
by lifepatternsemerging | Mar 14, 2019 | origami
Can you tell what this pattern is? Does it look like something humans designed, like the inside of a building? A sculpture? Or is it something created by nature? Here’s a clue: It took a couple of seconds to create it. That time doesn’t include taking the picture...
by lifepatternsemerging | Mar 13, 2019 | chemical patterns, chemistry
Slime Gooey Slime seems the opposite of pattern. Yet there is an underlying pattern called a polymer. Moreover, the polymers are crosslinked, forming yet a larger pattern. Slime is in the ocean, in our bodies, in our yards. Our bodies make some kinds. Kids make a...
by lifepatternsemerging | Feb 10, 2019 | abstraction in art, Uncategorized
Kathy has such a great way of explaining abstraction in art. Watch her YouTube video. Abstraction is a key concept in our modeling, games and art, so will be an ongoing topic for us. ...
by lifepatternsemerging | Sep 6, 2018 | spontaneous pattern formation, Turing spots and stripes
Like many great scientists, Alan Turing found beauty in simple explanations for nature’s complexity. He often found simple explanations for very complex problems. The same mind that cracked Germany’s Enigma code during WWII (inspiring Winston Churchill to say Turing...
by lifepatternsemerging | Sep 6, 2018 | ecosystem dynamics
Life on earth has survived five mass extinctions, periods when a great many types of life forms suddenly disappear. The most recent mass extinction was many millions of years ago. Since then, our ecology and the climate supporting it has experienced a relatively...
by lifepatternsemerging | Sep 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Our game Tolerance shows how segregation emerges even when individuals are relatively tolerant. In our game, we use two types of crabs with arbitrary differences. Both types are tolerant, so there’s no asymmetry or one-sidedness. The game includes an alternative...
by lifepatternsemerging | Sep 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Here’s an example of what Kathy suggested in her common on the spiral coloring book. One pair of complimentary colors is blue and orange. Below is the original image from the coloring...
by lifepatternsemerging | Sep 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
In a recent post, I discussed how looking at forests and fractals evokes a sense of awe. The research studies found that natural fractal structures, like trees, and man-made fractals, like certain art, stimulates awe, altruism. It might be that looking at these...
by lifepatternsemerging | Sep 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Many scientists have confessed to experiencing awe when beholding nature’s vast complexity of forms. But only recently have researchers systematically studied causes and consequence of experiencing awe. One cause of awe is vastness of scope, size or complexity,...
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