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...opened up complex new vistas in hard science. Schneider shows how abstract art can be natural, since it can be generated simply by looking at parts of the body in a completely new way. Ironically, since science uses “handedness” to define the very concept of symmetry, Schneider only photographs right hands. This immediately strips away the context of rigid formalism that normally surrounds representations of the human body in art, allowing Schneider the space to turn the hand into his very own abstract canvas...
...Mueller hasn't said who will replace them, but word around the bureau is that he is considering bringing back the concept of William Webster's top management triumvirate - instead of one deputy as chief operating officer, he may name three people to roughly equal number-two slots. The idea is that a single deputy burns out too fast; Louis Freeh went through a slew of them. Also, Webster liked the triumvirate idea because it kept one person from having too much power...
...those of you who aren’t familiar with his beautiful prose style and beguiling ideas, Richard Dawkins is arguably the most prominent evolutionary thinker of our time (sorry Gould, I think he has you beat hands down). His major contribution to evolutionary theory has been the concept of the gene as the fundamental unit of natural selection, not the organism or the species. He conceives of organic beings designed by genes as gigantic Rube Goldberg contraptions meant to ensure the transmission of the gene into the next generation. In his vision, the genes have constructed your body merely...
Take religion. Religion exploits a simple bootstrapping problem unique to humans: we are unable to understand the nature of our death or non-existence, because our understanding of this state presupposes that we exist to comprehend it. There is no way to wrap our heads around the concept of our demise, and thus most religions, in their many guises, offers us a way out of this logical impasse by offering a solution: we never die. Or, more accurately, those who share the meme will not die. Aye, and here is where the replication comes in. Those harboring the little virus...
...played a complete game today,” Caples said. “We talked about playing for 70 minutes. It’s a very simple concept but very difficult...