The Geecologist

Playground

Playground

Nov 2, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

If you want to make something smarter, teach it to play. No one denied the play of mammals. A giant oceanic manta ray brain was the largest and heaviest of any animal that breathed water. The telencephalon and cerebellum – parts of the brain devoted in mammals...
Game Control

Game Control

Sep 23, 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

The kempt and ingenuous young man held before her a carving of an enormous African family. The carving was awful enough to start with, but had be mucked over with tar. Eleanor was reluctant to touch it. ‘I don’t-‘ she fumbled. ‘I’m...
Four Thousand Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks

Sep 16, 2023 | Essays, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Now that my daily duties involved a baby, I’d simply expanded my instrumental approach to accommodate the new reality: I wanted to know that I was doing whatever was required to obtain optimal future results in the domain of child-rearing as well. Except that...
Not aid, but reparations

Not aid, but reparations

Dec 3, 2015 | Campaigns, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

<image courtesy of the legendary Polyp> Triggered by Jason Hickel’s recent piece in the Guardian, Enough of aid – let’s talk reparations, it reminded me how long this conversation has been going on, and how little progress has been made towards a...
The rugged solar powered computer in Uganda

The rugged solar powered computer in Uganda

Oct 29, 2011 | Geekery, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

UNICEF are rolling out an exciting ICT4D project in rural parts of Uganda. The project aims to give access to practical information to people living in remote parts of Uganda, where access would otherwise be extremely difficult. Like projects such as One Laptop Per...