“Physarum polycephalum, hereafter referred to as Physarum goo, inhabits cool, moist, shaded areas over decaying plant matter, and it eats nutrients such as oat flakes, bacteria and dead organic matter. It is a biological computing substrate, which has been enjoying much popularity within the Unconventional Computing research community for its astonishing computational properties.” [For a […]
Year: 2015
Zingg Zings Carping Reviewers (1941)
You must — must! or at least maybe should — read Zingg‘s zing at some of his fellow anthropologists, from way back in 1941: “Our Carping Reviewers,” Robert M. Zingg, American Anthropologist, vol. 43, no. 3, 1941, pp. 490-491. Zing begins by saying: “I must add my voice of protest to that of Loeb and Mead against […]