Tag: information
The Origin of Life: Correcting Common Mistakes on Thermodynamics
The driving tendencies in nature on the early Earth would have been analogous to seismic tremors rearranging the books in the library.
In a TED Talk, Here’s the Question You May Not Ask
Riccardo Sabatini is charming. He has the TED style down (who teaches them all to talk that way?), and he deploys some memorable images.
Physicist Brian Miller on Information as the Basis of the Universe
Increasingly, the direction of research points away from a materialist view in which information is seen as a byproduct of matter.
If Trolls Wrote and Edited an Influential Online Encyclopedia
“The basic idea behind Wikipedia is wrong for a number of reasons.”
If No One Can Play It, Is It Music?
Archiving music in DNA for future generations sounds promising, as long as the playback directions are not forgotten.