Mickey Mouse ancestors

Mickey Mouse ancestors, ca. 1906























Watching the Dancers, Edward S. Curtis, ca. 1906.

On evolution and typos

Seeing correspondences:


"The ancestral message from the dawn of life has grown to an instruction manual containing three thousand million letters coded into DNA. Everyone has a unique edition of the manual which differs in millions of ways from that of their fellows. All this diversity comes from accumulated errors in copying the inherited message."

From Life itself: Its origin and nature (1981) Francis Crick, cited in The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge (1998) Jeremy Narby

In the game variously known as Chinese whispers, Telephone, Broken Telephone, Whisper Down the Lane, Gossip, Arab Phone (from the French Le téléphone arabe), and Stille Post (Silent Post), the first player whispers a phrase or sentence to the next player. Each player successively whispers what that player believes he or she heard to the next. The last player announces the statement to the entire group. Errors typically accumulate in the retellings, so the statement announced by the last player differs significantly, and often amusingly, from the one uttered by the first.

From Wikipedia's article on the children's game "Telephone", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers

Michael Jackson

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These are the people in your neighborhood

I took these on a recent trip to Philadelphia via Amtrak:

Boston - Philadelphia 1



Boston - Philadelphia 2



Boston - Philadelphia 3



Boston - Philadelphia 4



Boston - Philadelphia 5
Texter spotted from the Amtrak porthole



Boston - Philadelphia 6
Something For The Whole Family!

From Bird Strike to Theory of Everything in 20 Steps

(Top 20 reasons nothing has been ticked off my Saturday morning To-Do list)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_failure
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_failure
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_time_(media)
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Restaurant (Seinfeld episode)
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pony_Remark
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_24
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_crash
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_crash#Mathematical_theory_and_stock_market_crashes
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(geometry)
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_definition
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_geometry#As_a_description_of_physical_reality
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_Of_Everything


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