Polymath at Large

 kw: book reviews, fantasy, archetypes, genies At the end of the animated film Aladdin , Aladdin uses his third wish to set free the genie. ...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, geology, paleontology, plants, evolution Cyanobacteria, which were called "blue-green algae...

 kw: book reviews, science fiction, mysteries, murder mysteries, space fiction, space aliens, sentient starships, writers, generated images ...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, oceanography, biology, invertebrates, medicine Behold a gallery of sponge animals. They headline The...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, history, bacteriology, public health, epidemiology, antibiotic resistance The title of this review is not qui...

 kw: analytical projects, art generation, ai art, statistics, statistical distributions, lognormal, scale free I began using art generating ...

 kw: artificial intelligence, simulated intelligence, philosophical musings, deification No matter how "intelligent" our AI creati...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, natural history, compendia, collections Atlas Obscura Wild Life , by Cara Giaimo and Joshua Foer and a host o...

 kw: color studies, spectroscopy, colorimetry, spectra, photo essays Recently I was cleaning out an area in the garage and came across an ol...

 kw: ai, simulated intelligence, philosophical musings, robots, robotics I saw the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still in the late 1950...

 kw: computer security, passwords, analysis Almost thirteen years ago I wrote about making " million-year passwords ", based on th...

 kw: book reviews, science fiction, short stories, ekumen series, space travel, anthologies, collections I read some of the stories collecte...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, optics, visibility, invisibility In a video you may have seen (watch it here before continuing; spo...