Posted 02 Nov 2012 / 2
If your brain is anything like mine, thoughts pretty much constantly race across it. As I consume media — especially media designed to inform — these thoughts intensify. As I read or listen or watch, my brain makes rapid connections between the new ideas I can recognize in the media I am consuming and the old Read More
A Major Post, Art & Design, Concept Mapping, Lesson Ideas, MSCI-160, Great Adventures in Evolution, Neuroscience, Pratt Institute
Posted 16 Aug 2012 / 0
Game Theory Icons These are pretty clever. I have not walked my way through them yet, but they use arrows to show the relative gradient of payoff for each player, and a little blue circle to represent Nash equilibrium (if any) for the game. What I have not yet figured out with these is whether Read More
A Minor Post, Game Theory, Information Design
Posted 15 Aug 2012 / 0
Biocreativity blog
A Minor Post, Art & Design, Biology (general), Science in Art & Design
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Evolution Education, Film & Video, Public Outreach
Posted 19 Jun 2012 / 0
Today I had the pleasure of accompanying my daughter’s fourth grade class to the “Creatures of Light: Nature’s Bioluminescence” exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. Beyond making sure that all students returned home safely, I was also interested in how this exhibit explained bioluminescence as an evolved adaptation. When I teach Evolution, one Read More
A Major Post, Adaptation, Behavior, Coevolution, Competition, Convergence, Cooperation, Evolution, Interactions, Marine Ecosystems, Museum design, Museums & Zoos, Mutualism, Phylogenetics, Predation, Sex and Reproduction, Terrestrial
Posted 12 Jun 2012 / 3
The “Early Edition” of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America just posted online a paper entitled “Direct reciprocity in structured populations“. Authored by Matthijs van Veelen, Julián García, David G. Rand, and Martin A. Nowak, the paper combines two well-explored factors that influence how cooperation evolves: repeated Read More
Articles, Behavior, Cooperation, Evolutionary Modeling, Information Design, Reciprocity, Social Networks
Posted 04 Jun 2012 / 0
In the Fall of 2011 I began a new project with Greg Riestenberg, a graduate student in Pratt’s Communications Design program. Given the ubiquity — especially in recent times — of evolutionary game theory, you would think that someone would have produced a set of clear conceptual images depicting how the most important of these games work; Read More
Department of Mathematics & Science, Evolutionary Games Infographics, Game Theory, Information Design, Pratt Institute, Teaching, Teaching Tools
Posted 14 May 2012 / 0
EcoHealth 2012 Conference Art Competition
A Minor Post, Conferences, Science in Art & Design
Posted 08 May 2012 / 0
Ashland Daily Tidings “Paintings merge art and science“
A Minor Post, Mutualism, Science in Art & Design
Posted 07 May 2012 / 0
Literature, Evolution, & the Brain “The Evolution of Cooperation & ‘They Cage the Animals at Night‘” It is fascinating that this blog represents the work of many people, all of whom are looking at literature through the lens of evolution. I encourage this approach — I had better, as I take it myself — but this Read More
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Science in Art & Design
