Interviews
Nic Kelman’s Interview with Copious Magazine
Interviews
Interview with Nic Kelman on current struggles and obstacles.
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Why ET Won’t Return Our Calls?
Blogs
Why do we expect aliens to be more altruistic than we are? We’re coming up on the 50th anniversary of the Arecibo message – the radio signal we beamed out to Globular Cluster M13 in 1974 which contained 1,679 bits of data communicating some of…
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Can Jerome Powell Impact Human Evolution?
Blogs
One of the ways in which Game Theory has been applied to Evolutionary Biology is through the development of Signaling Theory. Here, the concept goes, prey and predators or potential mates communicate with each other using signals like calls or dances or pretty feathers and…
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Uptown Rats and London Underground Mosquitoes
Blogs
In a paper published just a few years ago, it was determined that there are populations of rats in Manhattan which can be distinguished by neighborhood.[1] Specifically Uptown and Downtown Rats. Likewise, the London Underground species of mosquito is distinct from the surface species, biting…
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Relativity, Vaccination, and Tag
Blogs
Every day on the way home from school I ask my 7-year-old the highlight of his day. Yesterday, it was “playing ‘vaccine’ with my friends.” It turned out that “playing vaccine” meant someone was “giving out the vaccine” and people would refuse to get it…
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Human Action
Blogs
I noticed that, on Wikipedia, the number of significant libraries listed as destroyed by “human action” is much greater than the number destroyed by natural causes. Certainly, many of these were because of disagreements with ideologies expressed in texts in those libraries. But many of…
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The Chimney and The Internet
Blogs
Almost 1000 years ago monks, scholars, poets, and the like lamented the invention of a new technology that was going to destroy the fabric of society: the chimney. Until the late 12th Century, in Northern Europe, people ate their meals together in common rooms, dressed…
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Night Mother
Blogs
I just learned for the first time that the Ancient Greeks had a god of criticism: Momus. He was eventually expelled from Olympus (no surprise there), but when I looked up his genealogy, I noticed something I also hadn’t realized before: that Nyx and Erebus…
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Quote: They Know It Doesn’t Matter If They Are Fast, Only If They Are Faster
Quotes
From the book girls: A Pean By Nic Kelman Nic Kelman was born in New York City to parents from the UK and the US. Documentarian Alfred Kelman was his father. Kelman received a Bachelor of Science in Brain and Cognitive Science and a Minor…
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Quote: You Still Said Things Like That Then Still Bothered Trying To Be Clever
Quotes
From the book girls: A Pean By Nic Kelman Nic Kelman was born in New York City to parents from the UK and the US. Documentarian Alfred Kelman was his father. Kelman received a Bachelor of Science in Brain and Cognitive Science and a Minor…
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