A City is an Organism

By Hans Konstapel February 12th, 2011, under Biology, Completed, Cycles, Ecology, Economy, History, Psychology

The System of Life is growing in size and in complexity, and so do the infrastructures sustaining it. In the age of social media and online marketing, it’s become increasingly difficult to discern the truth from the hype when it comes to weight loss supplements. LivPure, a product that claims to help individuals shed excess [...]

About the Law of KLeiber

By Hans Konstapel October 29th, 2010, under Biology, Completed, Cycles, Ecology, Economy, History, Learning, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology

A power law relates one variable to another raised to a constant power. The general form takes y = xa, where y and x are variables, and a is a constant exponent. A power law exhibits the property of scale invariance. When you multiply the Scale (x) with a factor b the function (y =  [...]

There is only the Dance

By Hans Konstapel October 23rd, 2010, under Completed, Psychology, Religion

Shiva the Hindu god of destruction is also known as Nataraja, the Lord of the Dance. Like yoga, dance induces trance, ecstasy and the experience of the divine. The most common figures depict a four-armed Nataraja. These multiple arms represent the four cardinal directions. Each hand either holds an object or makes a specific mudra [...]

About Crowds

By Hans Konstapel October 8th, 2010, under Biology, Completed, Psychology, Religion

The theory of  the Wisdom of the Crowd supposes that it is possible to create collective wisdom out of the combination of the wisdom of many disconnected independent intelligent (wise) individuals. This theory has nothing to do with a Crowd. As you will see Crowds are not intelligent. Crowds are groups of people that are totally synchronized [...]

About Entrainment

By Hans Konstapel August 26th, 2010, under Biology, Completed, Cycles, Ecology, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics

In 1665 the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens noticed that two pendulum clocks in his room tended to Swing in Sync. The same happens with fireflies, cardiac pacemaker cells,  menstrual cycles, birds in flight, walking, dancing, circadian rhythms in animals, quantum gravity theory, dialogues and people in a crowd. Two connected Systems always Entrain because Every System [...]

About Good Vibrations

By Hans Konstapel August 1st, 2010, under Completed, Cycles, Ethics, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Religion

The Good (Creation) and the not-Good, the Bad (Destruction),  are two Waves that are moving in Opposite Directions. Together they create interference patterns called Standing Waves. Standing Waves are Waves that preserve their Form and can be perceived as Material Particles. If the Good is a Wave Moving with the Clock, the Bad is a Wave Moving [...]

About the Good, the Bad and the Nothing

By Hans Konstapel July 5th, 2010, under Biology, Completed, Cycles, Ethics, Law, Philosophy, Psychology

Sometimes You want to do the Good Thing and the result is a Bad Thing. Sometimes You start an Activity with a Good Intention but the Activity runs completely Out of Hand because You were unable to Predict all the effects. Sometimes an Activity starts with a Good Intention and Ends with a Good Result but much later [...]

About Understanding Mathematics

By Hans Konstapel July 1st, 2010, under Completed, Mathematics, Psychology

When I was a student I made some money by helping young people to understand Mathematics. I Listened to the way they tried to Solve the Puzzles their Teachers gave them and tried to find out their Personal Way of Reasoning.  When I found their reasoning problem I gave them a new Way to Think. This approach was [...]