Similarities across scales of size and proportion
As a child watching the water teem down the tiled wall, I saw a pattern that I’d seen in pictures before.
As the water ran down the subtly uneven tile surface, the straight course of the water being ejected from the shower head would begin to meander and bow.
In an instant, this straight course would become [...]
The game is on!
There was a time when a computer game was a simple enough affair. One of simple rules, a simple ‘platformer’ or ’scroller’ with simple ‘baddies’ with even simpler if no-less annoyingly difficult to overcome abilities. There was this endlessly repetitive, formulaic simplicity that rather than detract from the experience, actually added to it. Then things [...]
We have all the time in the world
My fascination with time travel has been with me for as long as I can recall. The very idea of being able to travel back through history and view distant events is something truly amazing and the stuff of wistful dreams.
Indeed, within Albert Einstein’s various seminal works at the turn of the last century, there [...]
Tech’ news in brief…
Net Pioneer Wants New Internet
“David Clark, who led the development of the internet in the 1970s, is working with the National Science Foundation on a plan for a whole new infrastructure to replace today’s global network.
The problem with today’s internet, according to Clark, is that its 30-year-old design, which allowed for the development of exciting [...]




