Communicating Science: Gráphagos
On July 2nd, we led a variant of our Communicating Science events, this time as part of…
Gráphagos: Memetik Evrim Grafik Tasarımı Açıklar mı?
2010’da yarattığım evrimsel grafik tasarım programı Gráphagos hakkında ilk Türkçe yazımı Manifold için yazdım. Yazıda programın ayrıntılarından…
Evolutionary Graphic Design: Gráphagos
I’m finally publishing the evolutionary graphic design program that I created in 2008–2010 as my master’s thesis…
Reinventing the Sacred
Review of Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion by Stuart A. Kauffman From…
Visualizing Protein Motions with Static Images
In 2011 I worked with Canan Atılgan and Ali Rana Atılgan on the figures of their paper…
Spider Under Microscope
I found this spider, dead, outside the window of my apartment. Looks like some species of yellow…
What Darwin Got Wrong
Review of What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry A. Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini Part I: Lewontin Strikes Back (Seriously, the…
Summertime
Fish are jumpin’ and I’m writin’ my second microscopy post, starring a mosquito. (See this post for the…
Headhunting for Consciousness
Yesterday I met David Chalmers. 19 to go. (Crick is dead.) (I guess that’s why Dennett took…
Find Out What You Are
This is a personal project that dates back to 2009; I’ve been postponing sharing it because I…
Zeros and Universes
What do you think if you notice that all the zeros in the book you’re reading have…
The Big Picture in Seven Scales
See the full size and Turkish versions here. After publishing this, quite a lot of people have…
Biology as Ideology
Review of Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA by Richard C. Lewontin Lewontin is a leftist…
Through My Old Microscope
I’ve recently found the microscope that I had when I was a kid. In a rush of…
Image of Science
Image of Science was a workshop that seeks to bring researchers and designers together in order to…
Dawkins vs Gould
Review of Dawkins vs Gould: Survival of the Fittest by Kim Sterelny I had low expectations for…
Dennett’s Istanbul Talk Online!
Here it is, finally, Dan Dennett’s Istanbul talk titled “Darwin’s Strange Inversion of Reasoning” from last year….
A Well-Disposed Memeticist’s Problems With the Meme Talk
It’s been some time since I finished reading Darwinizing Culture: the Status of Memetics as a Science…
Taking Memetics Seriously
I am currently reading Darwinizing Culture, edited by Robert Aunger. I just finished David Hull’s contribution titled…
The Story of a Clever Young Man
Since I watched Wittgenstein by Derek Jarman and fell in love with the story told by J….
Üçlü Sarmal: Gen, Organizma ve Çevre
Richard C. Lewontin eseri Üçlü Sarmal: Gen, Organizma ve Çevre incelemesi Tübitak Popüler Bilim Kitapları’ndan Türkçesi yeni…