Predicting the unpredictable

How do you predict the unpredictable?

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Water, water, see the water flow

Water is natural magic, changing a tree-filled creekbank into a swirling mass of dancing dragons. I found some water dances today, and thought I'd share them with you.

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Souls, spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels, aliens, intelligent designers, government conspirators, and all manner of invisible agents with power and intention are believed to haunt our world and control our lives. Why?

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Walmart taking out its arts and crafts

Well as most of us have noticed visiting our local Walmarts that their section for crocheting and sewing is getting smaller and smaller.

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Shake a metal plate covered in sand at certain frequencies and intricate patterns mysteriously appear. Jon Jacobsen, a mathematician at Harvey Mudd College, explains why this 200-year-old demonstration still captivates scientists and students.

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The FBI suspects there's a link between long-haul truckers and serial killers, and runs a national program to track murders along popular trucking routes, according to a newspaper report.

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Though the plot is fictional, this scenario has occurred many times in the real world.

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Insomnia. Almost everybody has it at one time or another. Some poor souls live (or barely live) with it. It's hard to know exactly how widespread it is: As many as 30 percent of the U.S. population, or as few as 9 percent, suffer from some form of it.

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Birth of a Giraffe

The spectacle of a new birth always impresses me. Look at the birth of this giraffe

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Georgia Tech grad student Matt Gilbert has been making some awesome crochet from a pattern generator he made, finding inspiration in acoustics. He and I share a strong opinion that computing and iterative crafting (crochet, knitting, weaving, etc.) have much in common.

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Excerpt: No matter the addiction — drugs, gambling, shopping, smoking, alcohol or more — people who want to kick their habit in the new year might find help in a new Harvard University publication.

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Love this Strange Maps site, and this particular one especially. I mean, who would have thought such deep population patterns would be so strongly retained between 1860 and now?

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What is the biggest barrier to people finding real love?

Simple, naked FEAR: fear of failure, fear of difference, of love, of hurt, fear of the consequences and even life itself, in the futile search for perfection.

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Readers of this blog might be interested in a new book on electoral politics set to arrive in bookstores at the end of summer.

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Last week was really full of hard work for us. The response to Smashing Texture Contest was impressive and overwhelming. We have received over 740 e-mails from over 600 participants, resulting in far more than 2000 photos.

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3 Key Reasons NOT to go into a Relationship

Many people go into relationships with all the best intentions in the world then wonder why they still fail. This is because the dynamics of two people getting together follow certain patterns or trends, despite each person being unique.

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As we go through life, we encounter people who affect us in a wide array of ways. There's the stranger who gives you the evil eye for no apparent reason, and the neighbor's child who clings to your calves as though you are her saving grace.

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Watergate-Era Judiciary Chief of Staff: Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying.

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If anyone could make the case that knitting is actually cool, it would be Ansley from the Blue Arts crafting blog. Ansley makes and sells a lot of stuff, from jewelry to paper crafts. But where she really rocks is her off-the-wall knitting projects.

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"More than two-thirds of the population are not getting the recommended eight hours of sleep a night, with many people lying awake worrying about money..."

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I have had migraines for most of my life; the first attack I remember occurred when I was 3 or 4 years old. I was playing in the garden when a brilliant, shimmering light appeared to my left — dazzlingly bright, almost as bright as the sun.

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A blogger about patterns declares that Life is common in the universe by way of the inherent property of the Universal Laws to be conducive to Life. He says that Life in the universe is inevitable because the life-giving factors are embedded deep within the Cosmic Law itself.

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One of our favorite shapes is the Sierpinski triangle. In one sense, a mere mathematical abstraction, on the other, a pattern that naturally emerges in real life from several different simple algorithms.

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A pattern-seeker ponders immortality by looking into the archetypal metaphor behind music, and explores the idea that life, sentience and consciousness might just be 'transposable' or portable into another dimension.

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Between technical and popular science writing is what I call "integrative science," a process that blends data, theory and narrative. Without all three of these metaphorical legs, the seat on which the enterprise of science rests would collapse

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A pattern-hunter looks to "Sleep" to shed some insight into the deep mystery of Death and the Afterlife. Declares "Sleep is our mini-death experience" and waking as a "mini-taste of rebirth or resurrection".

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