[FRIAM] E.O Wilson in the NY-ker
The recent interview with E.O. Wilson in the New Yorker pissed me off so bad I had to write them a letter. Since the letter won't be published, I am tempted to inflict it on all of you. Thanks for your patience, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org http://www.cusf.org/ Canard.docx Description: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Who serves whom? Was: E.O Wilson in the NY-ker
Russ, Corporations are termite mounds, my friend. Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Russ Abbott Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 11:59 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Cc: dwil...@binghamton.edu; Dix McComas; Jonathan Barker; Gillian Barker Subject: [FRIAM] Who serves whom? Was: E.O Wilson in the NY-ker I like the idea of banks being the means by which coins distribute themselves. Of course, being inanimate and not capable of evolution, it's a hard case to make. Although perhaps we can say that people and our sense of pecuniary aesthetics is the means coins have developed to evolve themselves. Rabies makes more sense. I think that argument actually works. Here's a Google+ post https://plus.google.com/u/0/114865618166480775623/posts/97mBng2AKee that talks about something similar in fungi. Here's a piece of it. Tree eating fungi. The ambrosia fungi have evolved the ability to get beetles [to] carry them from one piece of dead wood to another. ... [The beetles] have evolved saddle-like pouches in which to carry the fungus and feed them during the ride. And once the beetles have reached their destination, they put the fungus in a safe place (with few other fungi and bacteria to compete with) and get to work reproducing, in order to make more beetles, in order to carry the demanding fungus to even more dead trees. -- Russ Abbott _ Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles Google voice: 747-999-5105 Google+: https://plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ vita: http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ _ On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: The recent interview with E.O. Wilson in the New Yorker pissed me off so bad I had to write them a letter. Since the letter won't be published, I am tempted to inflict it on all of you. Thanks for your patience, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org http://www.cusf.org/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] one rep wanting to get re-elected-- can politicions evolve?
Rep hansen clake introducing a bill to forgive student loans: . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QEj-vIOIXkfeature=youtu.be Is it proof that politicions can evolve? I know he also wants to get re-elected so that has to be a driving factor. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] E.O Wilson in the NY-ker
Fair enough. Next transmission. I have to admit that there parts I just did not understand, partly because I don't think the interviewer understood them. It's conceivable that he redeems himself in those parts, but somehow I doubt it. Good to hear from you, Robert. Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Robert Holmes Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 6:18 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] E.O Wilson in the NY-ker Nick-Care to indulge in a bit of intellectual piracy and send out the PDF of the article that pissed you off? Otherwise those of us who don't have a subscription to the New Yorker won't really understand what you are writing about. -R On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: The recent interview with E.O. Wilson in the New Yorker pissed me off so bad I had to write them a letter. Since the letter won't be published, I am tempted to inflict it on all of you. Thanks for your patience, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org http://www.cusf.org/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] FW: See this?
Robert, 'n all, Here is an electronic version of the E.O. Wilson interview that irked me, courtesy of Frank Wimberly. I get irked by U.S. Mail. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/05/120305fa_fact_lehrer Nick FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
