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Brain Pickings

On February 7, 2014

In blog, book, brain pickings, maria popova, website

Brain Pickings is a blog with good posts on a variety of subjects. Also, they have a “book pickings” with lists of interesting books to browse through.

Here is a quote from the About section of the website:

“Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, an interestingness hunter-gatherer and curious mind at large, who has also written for Wired UK, The New York Times, Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab, and The Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow.
Brain Pickings is a human-powered discovery engine for interestingness, a subjective lens on what matters in the world and why, bringing you things you didn’t know you were interested in — until you are. Founded in 2006 as a humble email digest and eventually brought online, the site was included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive in 2012. Here’s a little bit about the 7 most important learnings from the journey so far.”

23andme DNA Ancestry

By anautonomousagent

On February 6, 2014

In ancestry, biology, dna, website

Update, I also had my own DNA sent into the FamilyTreeDNA Family Finder:

My Family Finder DNA

For $99 it’s a great deal in my opinion to have your DNA ancestry and health analyzed. Hoping to get some more family members to have their DNA analyzed. Here are: 1) My ancestry results, 2) My father, 3) My mother’s mother, and 4) My mother’s father.

Structural Harmony of Systems – Eduard Soroko

By anautonomousagent

On November 21, 2013

In eduard soroko, fibonacci, harmony, information theory, math, science, universe, website

Today, I read some interesting things on harmony mathematics. Here is a remarkable quote from a guy named Eduard Soroko (I can not find a Wikipedia entry on him):

“The Generalized Golden Proportions are invariants, which allow for natural systems in process of their self-organization to find harmonious structure, stationary regime of their existence, structural and functional stability.”

Here is a link to the paper which contains this quote: Structural Harmony of Systems. I want to find more papers and information on this “Belarusian philosopher.”