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zeynelon Inventor Trains Crows to Find Money

Very interesting. Thanks for the TED link. But is there a reason why he is not showing an actual crow dropping a coin in the box? All he shows is a drawing and then he describes what happens.

zeynelon Seth's Blog: Gravity is just a theory

I think Seth Godin got it right. Some of the comments here also prove how much Newton is a brand around which a perfect marketing campaign has been formed. I wrote a post about this:

http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/the-greatest-market...

zeynelon Gmail's New Default Theme is a Step Backwards for Usability

How did you go back to classic permanently? I click "Older version" and it goes to classic mode for that session but every time I open it I get the new version.

zeynelon Ask HN: How do you write a book?

Thanks everyone for great advice! This was very helpful

zeynelon Chandrayaan 1 captured by Moon

There's more info about Chandrayaan on this blog with a nice picture of earth

http://onionesquereality.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/chandrayaa...

zeynelon Prometheus: 2000 year old programming code

#Skimming the article, it is sounding a #little bit like "intelligent design", #when it talks of "programming" humans.

Well, I am really disappointed that the article sounds like "intelligent design." That may be due to my inarticulateness. I have no intention of advocating "intelligent design."

I am just curious to know if there is an academic or scholarly field where people study programming outside of computers, more specifically, programming humans.

#In a sense, natural selection programs all #organisms by allowing only the fit variations #in a given generation to survive, promulgating #the "fit genes" forward, but "design" or "program" #are terms in this context to be used metaphorically.

But it seems to me that "natural selection" is a term that needs to be used metaphorically as well.

In the article, the Prometheus story is not metaphorical. It is a real story written by a real person. I am trying to understand if humans reading the Prometheus story can be considred to be programmed in analogy to computer programming.

So when I read a Sunday paper supplement about discounted items and I go buy one, am I being programmed? What is the scholarly field that studies such programming?

zeynelon Prometheus: 2000 year old programming code

I just posted this to ask people here if it makes sense to talk about programming anything other than computers and if not what kind of science investigates this subjects. Thanks.