Sunday 26 September 2010

Discoveries (off-topic)

I have a bit of a queue of posts, including at least one review, but I've been on a training course all week and had no cognitive surplus.

In the meantime, some recent discoveries:

5 comments:

ghost said...

In evolutionary terms how do trolls fit into cognitive surplus?

msHedgehog said...

Evolution doesn't make value judgements. They eat it, though.

ghost said...

Shouldn't they have some kind of purpose though? At least diseases and so forth help with the whole survival of the fittest / population control. I can't see what use trolls are, or come to think of it why more cognitive surplus isn't used to figure out how to get rid of them!

msHedgehog said...

Naah, that's not how it works. The ichneumon wasp doesn't serve any purpose but its own.

ghost said...

Apparently they can be used for organic pest control - so trolls are even less useful than parasitic wasps or diseases!