Ionetics

This kind of thing can be too fun and frankly indulgent.



Hmmm...groovy.

Ionetics, should it take form, could include material of a mundane, perverse, obstruse or subversive nature. It doesn't have a purpose or structure as yet, and no guarantees of consistency, focus or force are provided. It might include some dumbed-down personal or public politics, human sciences, popular culture and whatever books or other media flow through and out. Hard to know yet, except that it's likely to be off-topic- the first principle.

Ernst Mayr, a mathematical biologist, died last week at 100, as did John Maynard Smith in April last year. Mayr's major contribution was to establish a fuzzy working definition of species determined by reproductive compatability, and to outline that isolation (from geographical, ecological or behavioural sources) accelerates reproductive and genetic drift. JMS, an aeronautical engineer by training, became interested especially in later work with internal selective pressures operating within and between sexes, populations and species, and in game theory. Since sexual reproduction, symbiosis, commensuralism and parasitism are prevalent lifestyles on the planet, playing Fox and Geese and Go with JMS takes on more pertinence. Thanks JMS, and you too Ernst.

Animal factoid of the day-
Ferret colour can be tortoiseshell (tri-coloured) like domestic cats, and the trait is inherited through a similar sex-linked pattern, also expressed only in females.

Until services are resumed, eye-candy as a testcard. Get wavy, Dave and Sadie.