200K, 1K (or less) At A Time

While I have not been keeping up with my blogging habit over the last 18 months or so, Synthetic Daisies is still reaching milestones. As of today, we have reached 200,000 reads! While this took 7 years and 6 months (as of June 15), it is quite a milestone. A few historical points.

Frequency of posts over time

The bulk of posts (particularly the longer posts) were written during a period from late 2011 to early 2015. Some of them have had longer lifetimes than others, as you will see below.

Logos over time

2008-2012. Classic version

2012-2015. New design, pretentious slogan.

2016-present. Cleaned up new design.

Here is a reading list with some of the lesser-read but perhaps most interesting posts in the blog's history.

Network Science:
Six Degrees of the Alpha Male: breeding networks to understand population structure. August 22, 2014.

Fireside Science: Inspired by a visit to the Network's Frontier.... December 16, 2013.


Meta-science:
Scientific Paradigm Network. February 8, 2015.

Academic Connectivity and the Future of Scientific Ideas. September 9, 2011.

Fireside Science: The Representation of Representations. June 21, 2014.


Book Reviews:
Review of "Arrival of the Fittest". March 9, 2015.

Metabiology and the Evolutionary Proof. January 11, 2013.

Review of "Intelligent Movement Machine". April 19, 2009.


Cognition, Biology, Technology, and Innovation:
Merging electronics and biology: the future of touch. November 1, 2012.

The "nature" of materials: evolution and biomimetics. December 26, 2011.

I, Automaton. September 16, 2013.


Evolution, Alife, and Complexity:
Artificial Life meets Geodynamics (EvoGeo). November 21, 2012.

Reflections on Chaos in Biological Evolution. May 25, 2013.

The Neuromechanics and Evolution of Very Slow Movements. April 18, 2012.


Systems Biology:
Modeling Processes with No Beginning, an Adaptive Middle, and No End. October 27, 2013.

Facilitated Variation (FV): a random (walk) tour. October 29, 2011.

"Reining" in Diabetes. January 10, 2011.


Game Theory and Complexity:
Games, Noise, and Science-related Obscure References. April 8, 2013.

Makin' Pha-ses. March 11, 2013.


Although the blog got off to a slow start, I learned a lot about "how to blog" (use interactive media to greater effect) over the course of time. Nevertheless, hooray for 200K!