David Attenborough

david_attenboroughLike our family, did you consider David Attenborough’s BBC nature documentaries and explorations just about the best of the genre?  Now, as Attenborough turns 90 years of age, a writer for The Atlantic catalogs and rates his entire 79-episode Life Collection.  I’m sure we missed some of these, but by scouring Netflix and other streaming services, we may be able to catch up.

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/every-episode-of-david-attenboroughs-life-series-ranked/480678/

rDay Four-Hundred-Four, Yikes!

Perhaps not such an auspicious day …

404_error_googleFrom Wikipedia: The 404 or Not Found error message is an HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested. The web site hosting server will typically generate a “404 Not Found” web page when a user attempts to follow a broken or dead link; hence the 404 error is one of the most recognizable errors encountered on the World Wide Web.

Forging on, undaunted, we attempt to take the Shade-Dog for an excursion around campus for his late afternoon walk. Charlie-Wag has a mind of his own …

Everything That Happens By Itself

physics_of_lifeThis (title) was the meaning behind the Latin origin for the term “physics”.

Read about Constructal Law, a theory that suggests that physics can explain, well, everything.   A book is about to be released on the subject, which can be expressed as:

“For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.”