Re: [FRIAM] CAS in Mumbai. At lunchtime.

2007-05-29 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Tom Johnson wrote: Yes, it is a feature story, but the content -- and context -- is also a wonderful, almost-perfect example of humans developing/evolving Complex Adaptive Systems. Rai, Saritha. In India, Grandma Cooks, They Deliver. __The New York Times__ 29 May 2007. 29 May 2007

Re: [FRIAM] Retrocausality

2007-11-12 Thread Merle Lefkoff
David Breecker wrote: If I remember correctly (caveat: it's been 20 years, and I barely understood it then), Feynman's Quantum Chromodynamics said many things work well backwards, and there is no absolute forwards. Or something like that. But perhaps more interesting to this thread, I'm

Re: [FRIAM] DIY, MAKE, etc.

2008-03-09 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Tom Johnson wrote: Tom: Thanks for the report to those of us who couldn't come to the big opening day. I'd like to say something about money, since it seems to be an issue (when is it not). I love fund raising and consider it a sacred task for those of us who are social entrepreneurs in

Re: [FRIAM] questions

2008-03-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
How do you define/describe sensibilities? Merle Lefkoff suppose you are trying to grow a diverse community. you want a shared culture for that community. you want to respect existing sensibilities that subgroups (and individuals) bring to the new community. in many cases, gender and youth

Re: [FRIAM] questions

2008-03-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
of natural systems. (And perhaps throw in a little spirituality, as well. The Dalai Lama, as you know, is exploring deeply the intersection between science and spirituality.) Merle Lefkoff Sensibility is intended to be a very general term; basically a sensitivity to a sensory stimulus accompanied

Re: [FRIAM] sic transit gloria laptopi

2008-05-15 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Carl Tollander wrote: Carl, WOW! Fascinating. I have a million questions. I was at the complex yesterday. I think I'm going to take office space. Want to talk to you about this and more. Saw Roger. We talked about the fact that I have the Gates guy interested in our computer project.

[FRIAM] [Fwd: Call For Speakers: Hollywood Goes Green]

2008-07-03 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Original Message Subject:Call For Speakers: Hollywood Goes Green Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:36:46 -0500 From: iHollywood Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hollywood Goes Green | Dec. 9-10 2008 | Universal Hilton Discover how Hollywood can

Re: [FRIAM] Rosen, Life Itself

2008-08-03 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Nicholas Thompson wrote: Nick, Difficult books are like difficult men: challenging for a while, but ultimately too much trouble and too little payoff for the effort. Give me effortless elegance every time. Remind me, why are you doing Rosen? And while I'm at it, I haven't had time to read all

Re: [FRIAM] Pamela's Edge of Chaos

2008-09-24 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Hi Pamela, On the road. Darn. Congratulations and good luck! Hugs, Merle Pamela McCorduck wrote: Can't argue with canvassing for Obama. We'll be back in mid-December, just for the holidays, alas. Get lots of votes for him! Love, P. On Sep 24, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Bruce Abell wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] or more simply, is there order?

2008-10-03 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Hi Paul, John and I have been using the book in our complexity training course for some time. It's a terrific read for both specialists and non. Merle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter, an urban planner in Bruxelles, recommended that I read /The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe City Council approves funding for SFComplex

2008-12-13 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Stephen Guerin wrote: Thank you to everyone that wrote letters to the Council and the 60 sfComplex supporters who sat through a 4 hour City Council Meeting! Unaminous approval from City Council! Lot's of fun work to do, now. Come do a project at the Complex! -Stephen

Re: [FRIAM] Teckies and the Pols!

2009-01-02 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Peter, You are right about the waste of time distinguishing between disciplinary differences. In fact, I note with others that 2009 is the 50th anniversary of C.P. Snow's seminal essay on the Two Cultures, the unfortunate separation between science and the humanities. You are shockingly

Re: [FRIAM] Complexity and Institutional Philanthropy

2009-04-15 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Merle here in San Francisco deeply imbedded in the philanthropic community this week. Interesting thread you have going, Pamela and Paul. I am advising donor networks and my new client, an international environmental foundation (and also raising money for the Madrona Institute) by

Re: [FRIAM] Obama on nuclear energy

2009-04-15 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Peggy is right. I attach a short excerpt from Democracy Now. (Amory is the guru.) AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. Well, talk about nuclear power. Why do you feel it’s not an option, given the oil crisis? AMORY LOVINS: Well, first of all, electricity and oil have essentially

Re: [FRIAM] PNAS on Complex Systems

2009-04-23 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Thanks, Roger. Had no problem getting the articles. Merle Roger Critchlow wrote: This week's issue of http://pnas.org has a special section on complexity: In this issue, all of the articles address problems of complexity in organisms. Topics range from information processing in their

Re: [FRIAM] City University of Santa Fe

2009-04-24 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Nicholas Thompson wrote: All, I again attended the meeting of the goverenor's task force to suggest what to do about the impending demise of the college of Santa Fe. The accoustics in the room were terrible and so my report will be more brief. Also, there seemed to be an attentive

Re: [FRIAM] Debategraph home

2009-07-06 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Tom, The derivation of the word debate is the Latin word battere (pound, beat, hit). The derivation of the word dialogue is from the Greek dialogos. Dia can mean through, and logos is the word. The point here is that debate is an old form of working through problems (although still with

Re: [FRIAM] emergence

2009-09-07 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Oh, dear, and I thought I was working with programmers who cleverly write code to allow space for emergence to HAPPEN! And Nick, count me in--when I'm in town. Merle Lefkoff Jochen Fromm wrote: So the insight you have brought to the world is that the best way to understand emergence

Re: [FRIAM] emergence

2009-09-07 Thread Merle Lefkoff
But we may have to have a useful conversation about emergence in order to talk about soul, consciousness, or spirit. Merle Nicholas Thompson wrote: Try this: a property of an entity is emergent when it depends on the arrangment or the order of presentation of the parts of the entity.

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Emergence Seminar

2009-09-09 Thread Merle Lefkoff
, I plan to be there--unless I become enthralled with the Slow Money conference. Merle Lefkoff Roger Critchlow wrote: Point of geography, it's Garcia and Acequia Madre, -- rec -- On Sep 9, 2009 5:51 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote

Re: [FRIAM] Emergence Seminar--British Emergence

2009-09-10 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Dear Nick, So how did it go? I had to make a decision, and I wasn't sure of the time or place for emergence--so I spent the day at the inaugural national organizing meeting of the Slow Money Movement at the Santa Fe Farmers Market. It was---awesome! I have a deep interest in

Re: [FRIAM] leadership in flocks

2010-04-10 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Merle Lefkoff wrote: Regardless of whether leaders act because of endogenous traits or a circumstantial opening, they are indeed emergent throughout the system. In human systems, however, unlike flocks, over-determined structures suppress this emergent property of the system. Rather than

Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and Katyn

2010-04-29 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Having recently been in Abu Dhabi and Dubai and writing now from Istanbul, I am inclined to agree with Pamela. Grand gestures, however, may well be more short-lived within the contemporary economies. Pamela McCorduck wrote: Grandiosity of civilizations is easily observed but that same

Re: [FRIAM] Kaufmannesque Decison Making

2010-05-06 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Hi Nick, Open Space Technology is a facilitation methodology even older than you and me. (Just kidding--no method is that old.) I've been using it for years and participated just last week in a whole conference in Istanbul using the technique. At the Madrona Institute we massage it and

Re: [FRIAM] Kaufmannesque Decison Making

2010-05-06 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Merle Lefkoff wrote: Russ is partly right. 1. The people involved mainly have a policy interest only--solving the problem of nuclear non-proliferation does not rule their lives. So their determination is based on a combination of professional (diplomatic, think tank. INGO, academic

Re: [FRIAM] What you can do.

2010-05-14 Thread Merle Lefkoff
merle lefkoff wrote: Sarbajit misses the boat completely. The reason that the government may not suppress that speech altogether is because under U.S. law corporations have the same rights as people. This is the problem, because corporations are NOT by any stretch of the imagination

Re: [FRIAM] What you can do.

2010-05-14 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Merle Lefkoff wrote: Count me in Jim. Save me a seat (the Madrona Institute office is across the street). Has Friam turned into a drinking club? jpgir...@thinkingmetal.com wrote: And if you're local Santa Fe, you can come discuss this and other recent politically oriented FRIAM postings

Re: [FRIAM] Gravity as an emergent phenomenon

2010-07-14 Thread Merle Lefkoff
lrudo...@meganet.net wrote: Glen Ropella asked: What is that ^ symbol between dx^a and dx^b? Merle Lefkoff writes: I thought a tensor is a description of a multi-dimensional space, like stress and strain (what I'm going through right now). Roger Critchlow writes: Working

Re: [FRIAM] The Best 10 Fictional Works

2010-10-09 Thread Merle Lefkoff
I'd add to Jack's criteria: 9) deep exploration of a particular culture at a moment in time. Jonathan Franzen's Freedom. Hate to say it because it's been so over-hyped, but it's that good, right up there with Huck Finn and Jay Gatsby. I think it will 10) stand the test of time. Merle

Re: [FRIAM] The Best 10 Fictional Works

2010-10-09 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Merle Lefkoff wrote: Thank you for mentioning Richard Powers. And don't forget Powers' The Time of Our Singing, an extraordinary imaginative leap into the complexities of racial identity. Tom Carter wrote: All - 10??? Oh, well . . . When I was a kid, my parents installed

Re: [FRIAM] The Best 10 Fictional Works

2010-10-09 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Merle Lefkoff wrote: Have I missed something? I don't recall having seen anything by Philip Roth on anyone's list. And now that I think about it, I've been musing for some time about the dearth of neurotic Jewish intellectuals in Friam--especially noteworthy given our Complexity forefathers

Re: [FRIAM] Expertise, etcetera

2010-10-13 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Merle Lefkoff wrote: Forgive me for blithely skipping from the mind to the brain. Our brains decide and predict based on a complex dynamic between the emotional brain ( in our limbic system), and what I call the trained brain. The training results from the neurotransmitter dopamine which

Re: [FRIAM] URGENT URGENT!! Restaurants in SF.

2010-10-18 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Nick, What's their price range? Merle Nicholas Thompson wrote: Hi, everybody. Sorry for this intrusion. I just got an urgent email from friends saying that they are in Santa Fe for a few days and want recommendations for good local restaurants. I am a bad person to ask because I hate

Re: [FRIAM] evolving neural networks

2012-04-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Thank you, Roger. I like this. Merle On Apr 11, 2012, at 4:59 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/04/04/rspb.2012.0206 has made quite a splash in the news. The high levels of intelligence seen in humans, other primates, certain

Re: [FRIAM] modeling child/neighborhood well-being and gentrification

2012-05-07 Thread Merle Lefkoff
modeling is helpful to give us insight, you can definitely move forward with interventions based on complex systems thinking. Let me know if you're interested in connecting. Best, Merle Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. President Center for Emergent Diplomacy Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA emergentdiplomacy.org

Re: [FRIAM] Academics and other Stereotypes

2013-01-20 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Academics and other Stereotypes

2013-01-22 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Roger that, Roger! I think there will be a lot of pushback on your statement, because I find that it is very hard for academics to give up the illusion of expertise. BTW, here is my expert judgment about the facilitation issue. Sometimes you need to know some content, sometimes you're really

Re: [FRIAM] Windows Resource Monitor

2013-02-06 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Hey, Nick. I wasn't being frivolous, I was very serious. We struggle with re-languaging tired old concepts along with the arcane jargon of complexity that you guys are masters at. Because what we're selling is so out of the box (WHAT? We're going to sit down at the negotiating table

Re: [FRIAM] Windows Resource Monitor

2013-02-07 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Hi Nick. Tried to send you a message on your e-mail. I don't have time to go through your spam thingy. Sorry. On Feb 7, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Eric Charles wrote: 1) I use a PC, because I am cheap and lazy. 2) This sort of thing is a ubiquitous problem on PCs, and is sometimes a problem for

Re: [FRIAM] beyond reductionism twice

2013-03-25 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] beyond reductionism twice

2013-03-26 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] beyond reductionism twice

2013-03-26 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

2013-03-27 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Thanks, Owen, for posting something that has to do with the real world. Here Comes Everybody as Shirky would say. The advent of e-learning is the single most democratizing event in decades! I just signed a contract in Canada to write the curriculum for the Complexity module as part of a

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] pluralism in science

2013-04-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Whirled Happiness

2013-04-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
-- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com http://www.ideatree.us/ The World Happiness Meter http://worldhappinessmeter.com/ On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Merle Lefkoff merlelefk...@gmail.comwrote: Roger, Righto! We launch Happiness Santa Fe on Saturday ( go to our website, the Center

Re: [FRIAM] Whirled Happiness

2013-04-12 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Steve, Obviously happiness is a tensor--an ABM simulating this would sure help us figure out how to get there. Merle On Apr 12, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Steve Smith wrote: Ron- Here's the link to the Christakis/Fowler paper on happiness contagion I mentioned earlier...and a TEDx talk.

Re: [FRIAM] Whirled Happiness

2013-04-12 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Ron, Norm and I teamed up when we were both in T Division (I was at CNLS) at the Lab working on an ABM policy simulator. He's back in Santa Fe. Merle On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Ron Newman wrote: Steve, Do you have a link to your 2001 paper on Collective Intelligence? Can't google

Re: [FRIAM] Whirled Happiness

2013-04-12 Thread Merle Lefkoff
earlier...and a TEDx talk. Are they building off of Epstein's work? He's not mentioned in the citations. Ron -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com The World Happiness Meter On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Merle Lefkoff merlelefk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Steve, When our

Re: [FRIAM] travle tips?

2013-07-01 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets - NYTimes.com

2013-08-15 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] 36 hour online game/research exercise

2013-09-10 Thread Merle Lefkoff
medical research. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. President

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy + Market Economy == Open Source Governance?

2013-09-15 Thread Merle Lefkoff
for a Bretton Woods 3.0. The talk should be posted on-line next week. Merle Lefkoff On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Arlo Barnes arlo.bar...@gmail.com wrote: *Some Incomplete and Scattered Thoughts* I missed some of the discussion and will have to catch up once I get the number of unread emails I

Re: [FRIAM] Notions of entropy

2013-10-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
remains constant over time. Hi Nick, You may be the only one interested in my TEDx talk. Here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_BfrWTxA_U Sorry to miss the entropy discussion this morning, since I'm trying to rearrange the global economic system. Merle Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. President, Center

Re: [FRIAM] more fun in psychology

2013-10-31 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Big Science/Engineering

2013-11-19 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Corporate responsibility wrt health insurance

2013-12-06 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] rational

2014-01-04 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] right vs left

2014-01-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] right vs left

2014-01-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Merle Lefkoff merlelefk...@gmail.comwrote: I'm at the bottom of a long thread here, but if it's not too late, the only person I've ever read who could really describe the Right and the Left in America was Joe Bageant in his book Deer Hunting with Jesus. It was a big loss when

Re: [FRIAM] right vs left

2014-01-12 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Ga Tech Masters in CompSci

2014-01-23 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe New Mexican: Our View: For mayor, no perfect choice

2014-02-23 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: FPI 210

2014-02-24 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [IP] Re Read re Losing a Generation of Scientists

2014-03-03 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [IP] Re Read re Losing a Generation of Scientists

2014-03-03 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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[FRIAM] U.S. Congress on women's pay equity

2014-04-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
-- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA me...@emergentdiplomacy.org mobile: (303) 859-5609 skype: merlelefkoff FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
: On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Merle Lefkoff merlelefk...@gmail.comwrote: Have you seen the latest research on how increasingly impossible it is to move from one class to another in America? You were so right in your post above. Born into working class, marry within working class, raise working

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
/friam_redfish.com -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA me...@emergentdiplomacy.org mobile: (303) 859-5609 skype: merlelefkoff FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-12 Thread Merle Lefkoff
...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Merle Lefkoff *Sent:* Friday, April 11, 2014 11:47 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality? A farmer has some chickens who dont lay any eggs.The farmer calls a physicist to help.The physicist

Re: [FRIAM] meritocracy (was Re: Openness amplifies Inequality?)

2014-04-22 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] student loans

2014-06-10 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM Field Trip?

2014-08-01 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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[FRIAM] Fwd: I LOVED seeing you!

2014-08-06 Thread Merle Lefkoff
...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:08 PM Subject: Re: I LOVED seeing you! To: Merle Lefkoff merlelefk...@gmail.com hello lovely, here's the Washington Monthly cover story that is based on my research: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/junejulyaugust_2014/features/the_big_lobotomy050642.php

Re: [FRIAM] Watch A Thousand Micro Robots Self-Assemble Into Wild Shapes | TechCrunch

2014-08-15 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] How to reduce the influence of money in US politics! he7a1agy

2014-09-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] NM economy and irony

2015-02-18 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Help!

2015-01-10 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] The nature of ISIS

2015-03-10 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: Fwd: SAR lecture - of interest to FRIAM folks?

2015-05-20 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Photogrammetry using Drone Imagery of Santa Fe Institute

2015-06-15 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Fun Times in Ecuador

2015-06-30 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] A Complexity Perspective on eradicating white supremacy in the U.S.

2015-08-17 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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[FRIAM] Interesting Link

2015-07-22 Thread Merle Lefkoff
http://www.coindesk.com/coin-center-bitcoin-advocacy-launch/# -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. Center for Emergent Diplomacy Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA ​merlelefk...@gmail.com​ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

Re: [FRIAM] Interesting Link

2015-07-22 Thread Merle Lefkoff
more. Here http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/26/ecuador-digital-currency-dollar-rafael-correa is one of many articles in English about this. On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Merle Lefkoff merlelefk...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.coindesk.com/coin-center-bitcoin-advocacy-launch

Re: [FRIAM] Interesting Link

2015-07-22 Thread Merle Lefkoff
/ -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. Center for Emergent Diplomacy Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA ​merlelefk...@gmail.com​ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http

Re: [FRIAM] Interesting Link

2015-07-22 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Gary, attached is link to another good article about alternative currencies. I personally wish that Greece were out of the EU--they won't have a chance to recover otherwise. On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Merle Lefkoff merlelefk...@gmail.com wrote: Nice candid response, Gary. And I

Re: [FRIAM] Interesting Link

2015-07-22 Thread Merle Lefkoff
. N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Merle Lefkoff *Sent:* Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:29 PM *To:* The Friday

Re: [FRIAM] Interesting Link

2015-07-22 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Merle Lefkoff *Sent:* Wednesday, July 22, 2015 4:04 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group

Re: [FRIAM] Interesting Link

2015-07-22 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Omigod! That's already happening. You really did say, coopete, didn't you? On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:35 PM, glen geprope...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/22/2015 10:20 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: I just got this, 8 hours after you sent it. No wonder I'm confused. I've been trying to track the X

Re: [FRIAM] Interesting Link

2015-07-22 Thread Merle Lefkoff
that, and altruism has evolved in our species. Still, I wonder if it is more prevelant among women. On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Merle Lefkoff merlelefk...@gmail.com wrote: So you think altruism is odd? I feel so sorry for you, Nick!! On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

2015-10-28 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Good climate change skeptics

2015-11-14 Thread Merle Lefkoff
ting will make us more rational. * >> >> >> >> >> >> >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://red

Re: [FRIAM] Good climate change skeptics

2015-09-21 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Good climate change skeptics

2015-09-23 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Good climate change skeptics

2015-09-23 Thread Merle Lefkoff
What's the risk if the sceptics win? Scepticism is surely the easy way out on this one. On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Merle Lefkoff <merlelefk...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's NEVER NEVER either/or! Try both/and. > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Gillian Densmore <gil.

Re: [FRIAM] thick and thin (was Physicists and Philosophers ...)

2015-12-29 Thread Merle Lefkoff
rying quality. > > Being smart is necessary but not sufficient: you also need to know lots > of stuff. > > > > > > > > Link: > > > > https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/thick-and-thin/ > > -- > -- > ⊥ glen ⊥ > > ====

Re: [FRIAM] Here's to the 1%!

2016-04-06 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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Re: [FRIAM] Here's to the 1%!

2016-04-06 Thread Merle Lefkoff
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