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...
Time Shelter

Time Shelter

Aug 19, 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created. In the mid–seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ. It was a...
Satin Island

Satin Island

Feb 19, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

2.4 The ventilation system. This deserves a book all of its own. It was cavernous and booming. The air-handling unit was housed in the basement with me — a series of grey boxes joined to one another like parts of a mechanical elephant, a sheet-metal supply-duct...
The Zoo In Basel

The Zoo In Basel

Jun 23, 2019 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Until the nineteenth century it was generally, if not universally, believed that the world was a few thousand years old – something that could be measured by the timescale of human generations – as in the fifth chapter of Genesis. But in 1830 Charles Lyell...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Jun 30, 2018 | Geekery, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Probability, Time and the Heat of Black HolesOne of the biggest mysteries in modern physics is something that we experience literally every moment of our lives. Physics describes the world by means of formulas that tell us how things vary as a function of time, but it...