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In the previous post, we discussed the Prisoner’s Dilemma and saw how a simple strategy called Tit-for-Tat enforced the Golden Rule and won a very interesting contest. But does Tit-for-Tat always come out on top? The most confounding thing about the strategy is that it can never win – at best, it can only tie [...]

Almost every decision we make involves someone else in one way or another, and we face a constant choice. Should we take advantage of them, go for the quick score and hope we never see them again – or should we settle for a more reasonable reward, co-operating in the hope that this peaceful relationship will continue long into the future?

Ski lift operators have proved that it’s not only conidae snails who can produce the Sierpinski triangle in their natural environment.

A philosophy website recently conducted a very interesting survey about some of these greatest standing questions in philosophy.

Early one morning, citizens in northern Norway awoke to an amazing sight – a giant glowing spiral, taking up a huge portion of the night sky.

My three dimensional unfolding of the quaternion Julia sets finally finished rendering.

This undulating plane is a visualization of all quaternion Julia sets.

Japan’s consumer goods lived up to their surreal billing during a recent stay at Narita Airport in Japan on my way to IAC 2009.

These beautiful shapes are three dimensional slices of four dimensional objects known as quaternion Julia sets.

The patterns on this sea shell appear to be very similar to that of a mathematical structure called a Sierpinski triangle.