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Techno Tuesday: The Internetโ€™s Secret Undersea World

{Each Tuesday we SnowBrains.com will be doing a Brain Post related to the technology field, enlightening you about emerging technologies or funny history about how technology came to be} How does a single ship reduce all of Asiaโ€™s internet capacity by 75%?  They accidentally drag their anchor across a few of the Internets undersea cables, thatโ€™s how.  In 2008, the [โ€ฆ]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | June 4, 2013
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Brain Post: Why No Two Snowflakes Look Alike

No two snowflakes are alike

Ever wonder why no two snowflakes look alike?  Not only do no two snowflakes look alike, but rarely do two snowflakes even look remotely similar.  Well, thereโ€™s a little thing in this world called โ€œemergenceโ€ and it dictates how complex systems are formed. Emergence Defined The arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns and properties during the process of self-organization [โ€ฆ]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | June 3, 2013
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