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SEMANTICS CAN BE DANGEROUS. As can analogies. We will encounter both in the roads ahead. But they can also be playful, ironic, whimsical and inspirational. You decide what works for you. This is not a court of law, but a colorful melting pot of marvelous ideas and concepts. View in LinkedIn

PRION EVOLUTION. "These shapes can evolve and adapt like lifeforms with DNA. As they 'replicate' by triggering shifts in other host prions there are an array of minor errors and changes, and in different conditions the best-suited shapes survive and multiply faster." https://lnkd.in/d4fjU7F View in LinkedIn

LINGUISTIC IMPRINT. "There are hundreds of programming languages, but they are not just separate mechanisms for more of the same — each language leaves an imprint in technological evolution and now scientists have learned how to track that down." https://lnkd.in/dY89BaB View in LinkedIn

INFLUENCE TREES. "Valverde and Solé sampled 347 programming languages spanning a period starting from 1952 when the first piece of code was written, up until 2010...the simple idea of influence trees can be extended to many other artifacts of technological and cultural innovation, way beyond programming languages, which only serve as an example of a highly dynamic change in seemingly homogenous field of ideas." https://lnkd.in/dY89BaB View in LinkedIn

COMPUTER CODE has been on this planet for just 66 Years, and in this time has transformed human culture. It is a product of human evolution, and will undoubtedly play perhaps a decisive role in crafting human evolution in the future. As wet biology and human culture merge, there is room for the extraordinary. View in LinkedIn

IN SPACE AND TIME. "Synchronization of floral initiation through photoperiodic sensitivity can confer advantages independently of whether reproduction is matched with a particular favourable environment. A further potential benefit of photoperiodic responses is that they can enable organisms to occupy an ecological niche in space and time." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

DAYLENGTH SYNCHRONICITY. "Photoperiodic plants are common, even in tropical latitudes where the seasonal daylength changes are small, and daylength is used to synchronize reproductive or other activities with seasonal events such as dry or rainy periods. Coincident flowering in members of a population increases the chances of outbreeding and hence genetic recombination." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

RANGE. "The seasonal range and rate of change of daylength is lower in the tropics than at higher latitudes and photoperiodic mechanisms need to be sufficiently precise and flexible to operate across the entire range of daylengths." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

SEASONAL CUE. "Photoperiod alone is not an unambiguous signal as any particular daylength occurs twice in an annual cycle. Progressive changes in daylength, which are at their greatest around the equinoxes in spring and autumn, do, however, provide a certain environmental signal for the passage of the seasons." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

THE PLANT CLOCK. "In order to locate the time of year accurately, a timekeeping mechanism operates with precision as part of the plant’s photoperiodic sensing mechanism in a way that is insensitive to less predictable variations in the environment such as temperature." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn