Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: iClarified - Apple News - Amazon is Planning a 4.7-Inch Smartphone for Release Next Quarter?

2013-03-28 Thread Gillian Densmore
needs to be a bit thicker and a bit larger screen with a reel keyboard. Otherwise could be interesting One important question: Does it blend? On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Ha! I told you so!

Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

2013-03-28 Thread Grant Holland
David, Looks like a powerful, if complex, model to me. It even recovers some of the aspects of the apprenticeship model that have been lost - especially that of *community* - that take apprenticeship even beyond mentoring. Your model seems to imply the necessity of community in the education

[FRIAM] White House Maker Hangout

2013-03-28 Thread glen e. p. ropella
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xIx3PkvskI#t=3m00s -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

[FRIAM] the white male effect (was Re: beyond reductionism twice)

2013-03-28 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Victoria Hughes wrote at 03/26/2013 11:27 AM: 1. The discussion also references non-European, non-white-male models for awareness, reality, conceptual modeling, etc. I found this interesting: Is the culturally polarizing effect of science literacy on climate change risk perceptions related to

Re: [FRIAM] the white male effect (was Re: beyond reductionism twice)

2013-03-28 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Since research is compelling that levels of testosterone in males determine willingness to take risks, I wonder if it also affects perception of risk. On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:39 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote: Victoria Hughes wrote at 03/26/2013 11:27 AM: 1. The discussion also references

Re: [FRIAM] the white male effect (was Re: beyond reductionism twice)

2013-03-28 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Merle Lefkoff wrote at 03/28/2013 01:51 PM: Since research is compelling that levels of testosterone in males determine willingness to take risks, I wonder if it also affects perception of risk. I would think so. But you'd also have to fold in the extent to which someone was narcissistic or

Re: [FRIAM] the white male effect (was Re: beyond reductionism twice)

2013-03-28 Thread Saul Caganoff
I'm astonished that anyone could even contemplate fitting a straight line to those scatter plots. Alternative hypothesis...isn't it just that EWMs have a propensity to benefit from the status-quo? Saul Sent from my iPhone On 29/03/2013, at 7:39 AM, glen e. p. ropella g...@tempusdictum.com

Re: [FRIAM] Mozilla Takes Aim At A Global Duopoly With Firefox OS And The Open Web - Forbes

2013-03-28 Thread Owen Densmore
OMG! Ars itself has a Moz critter in hand, with more explanations of how it works. It is built on top of an Android derivative so not only do webapps run on it as apps, Android too. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/firefox-os-hands-on-mozillas-plan-to-build-on-top-of-the-web/ Now if it