Play as a mutated plant or animal in the first expansion to Caves of Qud. The world currents are in flux, and a diaspora brings a host of new features to the region: new mutations, new creatures, new items, roaming dromad caravans, and more.
End-to-End Procedural Generation in Caves of Qud
End-to-End Procedural Generation in Caves of Qud
Small worlds — Stylized dioramas
Six interactive miniature worlds. Wander through an Italian harbor, a Japanese garden, a tropical island, a neon alley, forest ruins, and a sunken garden.
Game
Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through a layer cake of thousand-year-old civilizations.
Everything you always wanted to know about migrations - Slidev
"A deep dive into Atmosphere account migrations, even adversarial migrations\n"
changelog.earth | Planetary release notes
New species. Balance changes. Unresolved bugs. An unofficial changelog for Earth.
Tend the System. Know the System.
They didn't wander. That's the first thing to understand. The popular image of the hunter-gatherer is someone moving through an indifferent landscape, taking what they find. It's not wrong about the movement. It's wrong about the indifference — theirs and the land's. What the archaeological and ecological record increasingly shows is
Denizen
What are the narratives and paradigms that need to shift to facilitate a transition to a just, regenerative future? How do various mediums such as music, art, and film enable such changes to occur?
Niche construction on Bali: the gods of the countryside
Human niche construction encompasses both purely biological phenomena, such as the evolution of lactose tolerance, and dual inheritance theory, which investigates the transmission of cultural information. But does niche construction help to explain phenomena in which conscious intention also plays a role? The creation of the engineered landscape of Balinese rice terraces offers a test case. Population genetic analysis and archaeological evidence are used to investigate whether this phenomenon emerged historically from trial and error by generations of farmers, or alternatively was designed by Bali's rulers. In light of strong support for the former hypothesis, two models are developed to explore the emergence of functional structure at both local and global scales. As time goes forward and selected patterns of irrigation schedules are implemented, local variation in rice harvests influences future decisions by the farmers, creating a coupled human–natural system governed by feedback from the environment. This mathematical analysis received a measure of empirical support when government agricultural policies severed the local feedback channels, resulting in the almost instantaneous collapse of rice harvests. The historical process of niche construction may also have included an evolution of religious consciousness, reflected in the beliefs and practices of the water temple cult.
What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools
Those who are convinced that there is more to things spend their time chasing it and not finding it often as not, and those who are convinced there isn't find themselves frustrated at the abyss.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don't Know It
Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings
