Platonic Beauty

Neurologist Anjan Chatterjee in his TED talk on beauty noted how Francis Galton sought to build a composite face of criminality. Using his new technique of combining faces, Galton expected to find the grotesque face of criminality but instead brought to life a face of beauty. What happened? Galton didn’t realize that beauty is an…

Diversity

DIVERSITY Living things are less linear maybe non-deterministic compared with inanimate objects. We talk about the struggle for existence.  I’m observing in my garden plants competing with each other for light.  Deciduous trees crowd out smaller bushes down below depriving them of light stunting their growth.  Vines grow like epiphytes loving to climb up over…