[FRIAM] What's in your contact lens case?

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/contact-lens-solution-hosts-giant-virus-ecosystem-of-parasites/ http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/10/10/1208835109 -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at

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New edition of Issac Asimov's Foundation series out, intro by Paul Krugman. Woo-hoo! https://webspace.princeton.edu/users/pkrugman/FDT%20intro.pdf FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St.

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Wow, I've not read those in three decades and that intro had me salivating. Off to Amazon… On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com wrote: New edition of Issac Asimov's Foundation series out, intro by Paul Krugman. Woo-hoo!

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Too bad there isn't a new edition in which the Foundation science remained intact, yet which had been sufficiently re-written so as to have three-dimensional characters, dialog, personalities... On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Robert Holmes rob...@robertholmes.orgwrote: Wow, I've not read

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I really appreciate Krugman's analysis here... I read the Foundation Series in my late teens... I had already read a great deal of SF by that time and had developed a little sophistication about both science/math and the concepts of social/economic prediction/engineering. Enough to really

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