[FRIAM] While Science Sleeps on FaceBook, author Woodrow C. Monte and artist Becky Miller: Rich Murray 2012.02.14

2012-02-14 Thread Rich Murray
While Science Sleeps on FaceBook, author Woodrow C. Monte and artist Becky Miller: Rich Murray 2012.02.14 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/02/while-science-sleeps-on-facebook-author.html http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1638

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun | Video on TED.com

2012-02-14 Thread Parks, Raymond
The transcript (for some reason the video didn't work for me) reminded me of something I had recently read on the Air Force Global Strike Command web-site - Some people say we never use nuclear weapons. The truth is we use nuclear weapons every day to keep the world safe... -The Honorable

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun | Video on TED.com

2012-02-14 Thread Steve Smith
*Some people say we never use nuclear weapons. The truth is we use nuclear weapons every day to keep the world safe... */-The Honorable Andrew C. Weber, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs/ *If you came upon two men in the road with one fist

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Fwd: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

2012-02-14 Thread Owen Densmore
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Stephen Guerin stephen.gue...@redfish.com wrote: Steven Kotler's book, Abundance, is in pre-release ordering. Please check it out! e-book's will be available at release. Congratulations, Steven! Any chance we could have a talk on the ideas in the book?

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun | Video on TED.com

2012-02-14 Thread Gary Schiltz
Thanks for such a balanced and thoughtful message. Thank goodness for ramblings and ramblers Gary On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Steve Smith wrote: Some people say we never use nuclear weapons. The truth is we use nuclear weapons every day to keep the world safe... -The Honorable Andrew C.

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun | Video on TED.com

2012-02-14 Thread Steve Smith
Ray - The absence of War is not the same as Peace... Nor is the absence of Peace the same as War. Perhaps we agree. My point is that the Dalai Lama held (holds) a higher standard for Peace than you (and perhaps I) do... I honor that standard, whether I can live up to it or not. I was once

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Fwd: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

2012-02-14 Thread Steve Smith
I am pretty sure Kotler would agree to a reading, a public talk, etc. to publicize. I like Kotler's style and perspective in general but teaming up with Diamandis was killer. I disagree with a lot of their assumptions and their conclusions but like the general ideas they espouse and the

[FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-14 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hi, everybody, I have signed perhaps a dozen Publishers Agreements over my life time and each one was more onerous, self-serving, and stupid than the one before. My favorite was the publisher who asked me to hold the Publisher harmless for anything that might occur as a consequence of the

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-14 Thread Russ Abbott
See this NYT articlehttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/science/researchers-boycott-elsevier-journal-publisher.htmland sign up here http://thecostofknowledge.com/. *-- Russ Abbott* *_* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-14 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Thanks, Russ. Why, exactly, do we need them anyway. Can't any list of a hundred experts (like FRIAM, for instance) become a peer-review journal with everything published to the web? I have wondered about this before. Let's say we announce the FRIAM journal of Complexity Science and

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-14 Thread Russ Abbott
Yann LeCun http://yann.lecun.com/ex/pamphlets/publishing-models.html has a promising idea. It's similar to yours, just more fleshed out. *-- Russ * On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Thanks, Russ. ** ** Why, exactly, do we need