glen e. p. ropella wrote circa 11-10-24 11:11 AM:
Scaling, why is animal size so important?
By Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
I checked out a copy of this one, and in Chapter 11, we find these gems:
The rate of oxygen consumption in mammals, relative to body size,
decreases with increasing body size.
On 10/26/11 1:12 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
“I wonder at what that means for the neural tissue... seems like all
of the learning we assume happens through neuron destruction and
growth is out of the question for these little buggers. What about that?”
They already know everything—not unlike
Does anyone use Google Voice? Could you share your experiences? Which
options you use? How's it work?
For folks not familiar with GV, its a stunt that lets you manage your phone
number(s) somewhat like you do for DNS: one number for *you* not your
devices. And it works for wifi calling too so
I have a Google Voice number (see below). It seems to work. I've never
tried it for anything more complex than receiving calls. One interesting
(if often laughable feature) is that it takes voice-mail messages and
forwards them to you as email text -- or at least what its
voice recognition
What a wonderful treat on Wednesday night in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
Earth, Observable Universe, the immensely huger Unobservable Universe
( a multiplication by a number greater than 1 with 75 million zeros )
within the same expanding space-time-energy universe bubble, within a
source infinity
