The Goddess Eris may go back to the end of the last Ice Age. She is associated with Chaos, and thus with fractals, fractal mathematics, fractal patterns, fractal geometry, and fractal arts as well as with chaos science. Her symbol is the Tree of Life, which is thought by many scholars to be fractal in nature, each of its elements itself a Tree of ( Read more... )

There are two main schools of thought about the forms life, especially technologically sophisticated life, would have on various worlds, especially those belonging to different stars. The first is that you'd find many forms similar to one another regardless of what worlds they came from, as long as certain factors such as oxygenated atmospheres ( Read more... )