I've been asked by Martijn Schut to give a lecture about Darwin@Home at the DECOI summer school about collective intelligence and evolution that he's putting on at the Free University of Amsterdam

That's very cool, of course, were it not for the fact that we will be on vacation this summer to Canada, so I won't be able to attend. When he proposed that I lecture, I already knew we would be gone, so I immediately suggested that I instead make a movie, interspersing me talking about a bunch of things and rendered fluidiom movies. He went for it, so now I have to make that film in the next couple of weeks and then edit it on my powerbook in Toronto this summer.

My friend Hans Groenendijk has consented to add his creative ideas and camera skills to the effort, and last night we got together to try out some shots and work out some elements. It looks like it will be fun.

So on the one hand it's very unfortunate that the DECOI summer school conflicted with my vacation, but on the other hand, the students there will get a movie about Darwin@Home, and the movie will of course be made available afterwards on this site. In a way it's more useful to have a movie than to give a single lecture. I hope it turns out well.