Sat 7Jun
Indigenous & Pacific Fair at the overseas terminal.
Wonderful to see central desert & Northern paintings at knock-down and talk to people who know the artists.
Also great to see a big bunch of Tongans, reminiscent of life in Grey Lynn.
The winter sun bridge shadows on the opera house, truck shadows passing across the tiles.
Bought a small dot painting & a small echidna painting, total $217.


Cycle to UNSW to check SCIENCE & NATURE...i have to ask...does science know anything?...

Four-Body problem: There is no equation to describe more than 2 bodies...
some physics types threw a 100Mev C6+ at helium, got a 4-body result with "features that have not been predicted by any published theoretical model" - and you thought physics was the exact science.


Evolution: We have no idea on the origin, or the maintenance, of species. Chas Darwin gave us a good idea on how organisms change, but nothing on his book title.
Seems there is a Crustacean named "Darwinula stevensoni" which hasnt had sex for 20 million years. We have no idea why it remains the same. Isabelle Schoen in the Proc R Soc suggests "maybe is has exceptionally good DNA repair" - now thats just handwaving. Maybe its a perfect crustacean.
My theory is that organisms get to a state of complexity such that any small change wrecks the whole thing.. PuncEq rules.
Dandelions dont do sex either. Why do they stay the same?

Seems that the purpose of sex is to avoid worms. Inbred sealions have much lower resistance to "complex long lived gut parasites".
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