Cedar and Lucas Smiling

First smiles caught on video. They’ve been smiling for months now, but it is getting much more frequent so we decided to try to catch it on video. Of course, i had to whip something up in imovie – it’s short but cute. The background sound gives yo…

Identicallity

So, are they identical or not? This is the question… Having had a placenta and amniotic sac each, Cedar and Lucas are either straightforward fraternal twins (non-identical), or identical with the egg splitting within the first 3 or 4 days – befo…

Distracted but Drafting

I know it’s been a while, but there is more coming… The onslaught of my twin boys has really put my blogging into a tail spin, but believe it or not, I’m still researching.. sort of. I have come across some really great stigmergy research that I…

Ok, so they were born after all

i’ve just been too busy to blog! It’s been one month since Lucas and Cedar were born (in the picture to the right, they are 2 days old) and a lot has happened – wow, so much to get caught up on here… Hmm, where to start! I’ll try to just get caugh…

Human Stigmergy Part 1

In search of human-human stigmergy research… (An illegal tyre dump, near Newcastle, Australia estimated to hold over 10,000 tyres.) As far as my explorations have uncovered, little to no research has been done on applying stigmergy to human activi…

Time in the desert

Visiting indigenous communities in outback Australia… I just returned from a trip to the Northern Territory in Australia’s outback where I had plenty of time to think about stigmergy. It will probably take a little time for my many thoughts to coa…