Disappearing Cryptography: Information Hiding: Steganography & Watermarking, Second Edition
This resource provides a detailed overview of the act of information hiding and the techniques used to do so.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Disappearing Cryptography: Information Hiding: Steganography & Watermarking, Second Edition
Chapter 7: Grammars and Mimicry
Evolution of Everyday Things
Recently, I sat down with Charles Radwin, an evolutionary scientist, who drew a fair bit of acclaim and controversy over his paper showing how evolution led the human species to gorge on the O. J. Simpson trial. I asked him his views about how evolution affected other aspects of our lives. Here is our conversation:
| 1. | Eventually all toilets need their handles wiggled to stop them from running. Why? |
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| 2. | What about toasters? No matter how hard you try to set them right, they always burn some toast. |
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| 3. | Lightbulbs always burn out when I turn on the light. Why not, say, in the middle of a novel? |
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| 4. | But why don't lightbulbs live forever? Wouldn't that make life even better for their hosts? |
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| 5. | Copying machines always break down ten minutes before the crucial presentation. I've almost lost two jobs when a copier quit on me. They certainly weren't protecting their host organism, were they? |
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| 6. | Speaking of beer, why do some of those pop-tops break off without opening the can? By the end of a fishing trip, my cooler is filled with unopenable cans with no pop-tops. |
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| 7. | Why isn't beer entering into a synergistic relationship with the human? I'm certainly game. |
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| 8. | What if people set up another batch of hops and malt when they got drunk? Would those pull tabs start cooperating? |
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| 9. | There's nothing I can do about the pull tabs? Aren't evolutionary scientists good for anything? |
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Answers
| 1. | The commodes... |
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