Long figuring
January 31, 2014
I am 133 years old and I have spent all my life trying to figure out something. And you know what? It’s not going well.
(adapted from In the land of women).
Tiny brains
January 26, 2014
“It is certain that there may be extraordinary activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter; thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin’s head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of man.”
Charles Darwin, 1871 
[The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex]
