from the Zoroastrian Vendidad 2: Yima and the Flood Overpopulation and expansion of the earth: V.2.8 When Yima had ruled for three hundred winters, then this earth became full of animals, small and large, and men, of dogs, birds, and red and blazing fires. They found no place to be(?), animals, small and large, and men. V.2.9 Then I informed Yima: O beautiful Yima [...]
Archive for the ‘Evolution’ Category
Death By Design: The Evolutionary Ingenuity of Cellular Apoptosis
April 20, 2011
Death By Design Movie – [Part 1/5] Death By Design Movie – [Part 2/5] Death By Design Movie – [Part 3/5] Death By Design Movie – [Part 4/5] Death By Design Movie – [Part 5/5] “All the things we see when awake are death, even as all we see in slumber are sleep.” — Heraclitus [...]
Self-Sacrifice and Sustainability: The Hero Twins of the Popol Vuh
April 16, 2011
“Then again they sacrificed themselves. One of them would die, surely throwing himself down in death. Then having been killed, he would immediately be revived. And the Xibalbans simply watched them while they did it. Now all of this was merely the groundwork for the defeat of the Xibalbans at their hands.” Chris Hedges: Throw Out The Money [...]
Competition vs Cooperation
April 16, 2011
“Competition undermines sustainability in the long term.” — Dr. Joseph Tainter Introduction to Game Theory LECTURE DESCRIPTION: We introduce Game Theory by playing a game. We organize the game into players, their strategies, and their goals or payoffs; and we learn that we should decide what our goals are before we make choices. With some plausible [...]
The Temple of Nature
April 14, 2011
Preface to Erasmus Darwin’s Temple of Nature: “The Poem, which is here offered to the Public, does not pretend to instruct by deep researches of reasoning; its aim is simply to amuse by bringing distinctly to the imagination the beautiful and sublime images of the operations of Nature in the order, as the Author believes, [...]
