I’ve been looking at different complex systems lately; I’m becoming more and more fascinated with a term called “Emergence”. It’s when you perceive a complex and beautiful pattern from a huge amount of individual, simple objects guided by simple rules. You see this in flocking birds, insect swarms, ant colonies, blizzards,...

Imagine a future where you could distill and electrolize1 half a bathtub of crappy, waste water from your local harbour and create a potent nuclear fuel capable of powering your whole city. Sounds like the stuff of bad Keanu Reeves pseudo-sci-fi; but, our good friends south of the border in sunny California, are attempting to do just that! Resembling a palates...

Sounds From Space… I was watching the Leonid Meteor shower in 2001 on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island. It was cold, quiet and a site to behold. I was on a small outcropping of rock above an eerily still ocean, with my back to a dense forest of Jack Pines. The meteors were streaking in sometimes several times a minute, and were nothing more than...