Math & Nature
Anyone you's ever spent any time looking at fractals will love the "gardens in a petri" post on the Pruned blog.
Nature rawks!
(Thanks to kottke's blog for the link)
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone you's ever spent any time looking at fractals will love the "gardens in a petri" post on the Pruned blog.
Nature rawks!
(Thanks to kottke's blog for the link)
Posted 8:49 AM
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i KNEW it was familiar !
Quoting the blog you linked:
"All images come from the laboratory of Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of the Tel-Aviv University,"
Eshel Ben Yaakov was my statistical mechanics proffesor, while I studied my BSC in physics 4 years ago.
I saw these pictures every day on his office door, and had the pleasure of seeing these bacterial petri dishes myself..
Small world.
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