How does the momentum get carried down to the ground so coherently?
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
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Sorry about the commercial at the beginning. There's a skip button.
Again, imagine you had a very strong suction device. Could you produce
something like this in smaller scale? Why would it be narrower at the bottom
than the top?
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of
A few rhyming lines that came to mind after hearing about OBL's killing.
On the death of a terroristy
No glory in slaying a monster you made
No joy! The debt of injustice must be paid!
What justice and honor and values you state?
Feed anger with hate, but will hatred abate?
Why celebrate? Why
In response to Mohammed Beltagy's few lines of poetry related to Osama Bin
Laden's death:
Thank you for submitting those.
Though this situation is/was one fraught with fear, anger, retaliation, and,
as you mention, hatred, we as a country responded in such a way that had me
choking a bit on the
With all due respect, tell that to the thousands of innocent Israeli civilians who have been butchered over the last 60 years for the crime of existing. The intentional targeting of civilians as a matter of policy is reprehensible, and attempting to excuse it with moral equivalence arguments is
Mohammed -
I want to second Peggy's thanks for your thoughts and would like to add
the following to hers:
I agree with Peggy on most points. Terrorism is always horrific (it is
designed to be so) and we should seek to avoid provoking it and prevent
it's occurrence and mitigate it's effects
I missed the initial posting re Vortices! Can someone kindly repeat the
question. I spent 50 years dealing professionally with vorticity and its
curious consequences.
Remember the Jabberwock, where his Vorpal sword went snicker-snack!?
Peter Lissaman, Da Vinci Ventures
Expertise is
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 02:26:10PM -0500, Russell Gonnering wrote:
I joined this forum hoping it would be a platform to discuss complexity, a
subject that has profound implications in the area of my expertise, the
formulation of healthcare policy and delivery of healthcare. Instead, I find
Thanks Steve and Peggy, you give me more praise than I deserve.
I naturally see terrorism as abhorrent and I regret that Russel read
my few lines as an attempt to be an apologists for those who attack
the US and Israel. I am against any form of violence being exercised
against any human being,
Salaam Mohammed,
Speaking as an American, I'm afraid that I can assert with a fair degree of
accuracy that percentage-wise, very few Americans are aware of the
historical/current events vis-a-vis US interactions with
mid-eastern political entities that you so accurately denote below. For
reasons
I knew we could depend on you Doug!
My own twisted optimism is nicely complemented by your, what do you call
it, /pragmatism/?
Sadly, to first order, I think your description of us as a planet of
idiots comes way too close... my only bicker with it is perhaps whether
there is something to
Optimists usually view it as pessimism, Steve. But they're wrong.
Realism/pragmatism is my lodestone.
--Doug
Postscript: To those who wish to run away from the FRIAM list, taking their
marbles with them under the guise of *You're not complex enough for me!* let
me just say, Don't let the door
*But, to say that it is down to some group of human beings who are simply
evil and hateful is equally mindless. They US played a significant part in
this
monster creation. To my mind, the processes of monster creation is
still active. That worries me. That must stop.*
To use a LoTR analogy, I'd
RussG,
A message such as you wrote is ambiguous because it is a demand TO the list
to be taken OFF the list. If you simply wanted to be taken OFF the list,
the instructions for doing that are at the bottom of every post from the
list. So, it sounds like you want us to talk about the decline of
I have a question I would like to pose to the group in that regard:
Can we model/simulate how in a democracy that is inherently open (as
stated in the constitution: for the people, by the people etc..) there
emerges decision masking structures emerge that actively obfuscate
the participatory
I urge the angry to ask why. Too often storming away from a table is exactly
why we never break ground.
As to the topic of Complexity , this is one component you never inquired of,
Why do sensible people become IDIOTS. How does society create idiots out of
men?
That was my reason to join long
Peter,
You missed it because the original video-links did not find their way into my
messages, for some reason. I have been fascinated by thunderstorms all my
life, and particularly by the big ones. So, after every tornado outbreak, I go
on the web and watch tornado videos and wonder at
Thanks Nick, someone needed to say that.
Sure there are tangents, but as mailing lists go, FRIAM has a pretty high
signal to noise ratio.
It also has a quite diverse group of participants and lurkers. Sometimes we
agree, sometimes we don't; sometimes we like to jump on the unpopular side of a
Here is one that has a steady picture over a relatively long period of time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HX_L-FDLCc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HX_L-FDLCcfeature=relmfu feature=relmfu
The best footage on this one is in the second half. Turn the sound down if
the frenetic
25:10 video re Andea Rossi with stirring background music and English
translation, with details about two previous major inventions that
failed wastefully, and public demos from Jan 15 to Apr 28: Rich Murray
2011.05.05
http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/05/05/the-magic-of-mr-rossi-in-english/
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