Critical Mass

Thanks VERY much to the Critical Mass judges for selecting me as a finalist in this year's competition.

http://www.photolucidapdx.blogspot.com/2012/08/critical-mass-2012-finalist-list_20.html

Uncanny Essay

Science writer Jessica Palmer just published a great little essay that touches on--among other things--murmurations, Masahiro Mori's "Uncanny Valley," Mitt Romney's inexplicable unlikeability,  and my own Emergent Behavior series.

http://bioephemera.com/2012/08/19/a-murmuration-of-cheese-balls-when-nature-enters-the-uncanny-valley/