Clippings

The Chambered Nautilus


This got us thinking. Science, too, builds then rebuilds as new evidence is accumulated. Theories are constructed, then subsumed, or even abandoned. Our animation shows the progression of our understanding of the skies, from Ptolemy to Einstein, shutting us from heaven with a dome ever more vast.  


Via Berkeley Lab CS and Nautilus

It's interesting that I read this just after I read this thought of Kevin Kelley via Explore

Any complex invention is a network of dependent and self-sustaining different technologies… That’s also true of ideas – ideas are not standalone ideas; ideas are a network of other ideas that support them and are required to make them happen… A new idea is just the last little bit that’s added to a network that already exists.