The Golden Compass of Complexity

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I finished two books recently.  The first was The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins.  I started reading this one right around the time of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday.  It took me a while to read, n ot because I wasn’t interested in it, but rather because I must have thought it was educational.  Reading [...]

Aaah, something is in my eye!

I just finished reading The Mote in God’s Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.  Apparently it’s a part of a CoDominium series, but I didn’t know that when I started reading it.  I picked it up because some list on Wired or another sciencey-techy blog featured the book or maybe it was [...]