Tag: Howard Glicksman
Design at Your Fingertips: Researchers Struggle to Model Sense of Touch
Your hands feel in detail thanks to tens of thousands of sensors, and detailed information encoded by their positions and firing times.
The “Exquisite Design” of Human Biology
There is a certain characteristic shallowness to the storytelling exercise that is evolutionary biology.
The Designed Body, Continued: Coherence Wins, Gradualism Fails
Suppose I want to build a car that’s capable of getting me from point A to point B. It minimally takes several dozen parts.
The Designed Body: Irreducible Complexity on Steroids = Exquisite Engineering
Perhaps because life is so common, it’s easy to lose sight of how tenuous it is. Life depends on a delicate balance of forces.