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...flanked by pixels of its opposite color, reverse its color when drawing the corresponding pixel in the next row; if not, keep it the same. By automatically applying the rule on each row as it moves down the screen (thus the term automaton), the computer builds up a pattern of remarkable complexity. Some of Wolfram's cellular automata made patterns that looked amazingly like those on seashells; others resembled snowflakes or leaves. "That got me wondering," he says. "Could it be that natural systems work in a similar...
LOOKING SWEET According to local legend, the 1,268 Chocolate Hills of Bohol were formed when a giant shed tears upon learning his lover had died. Scientists insist they are vestiges of a millennia-old tidal pattern. Whatever their origins, the hills look like a sea of 30-m-tall, slightly melted Hershey's Kisses, especially in the dry season (December to May) when they turn a rich chocolaty brown. To see the hills up close, arrange a motorbike tour from the nearby town of Carmen, in the center of the island...
...appears to be a pattern on other campuses for the organizing effort to be very clandestine at first, which is itself unfortunate,” he wrote. “If an issue of this magnitude were in fact to be raised on this campus, it would be very important that it be debated as fully and openly as possible, with all views being expressed and heard...
...best know for his field work in the Brvu valley in Peru which culminated in his 1953 article “Settlement Pattern Survey,” in which he proposed and explicated the method of tracing human occupation of regions by studying their effects on the landscape...
...disease is often higher in marriages between people of the same race or, surprisingly, the same hometown. The risk of sickle cell amemia and Tay Sacks disease are increased in marriages of couples of similar genetic ancestry. It should be no surprise that first cousin marriages follow the same pattern. A study done by several hospitals in Saudi Arabia, where the rate of consanguineous marriages is 52 percent, showed that even though the babies from such unions weighed slightly less than average babies, the rate of inherited diseases or miscarriages was not significantly higher...