Robert, 

your wrote: 

==>I have a hard time working out what these network visualizations are meant 
to be telling me. That academic disciplines are connected?<==

That psychologists are in deep center field. 

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, 
Clark University ([email protected])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/




----- Original Message ----- 
From: Robert Holmes 
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: 3/17/2009 6:14:58 PM 
Subject: [FRIAM] It's cute but what is it for?


Map of knowledge at 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16visuals.html?_r=2&emc=eta1 built by 
scientists from LANL, SFI etc.


I must admit, I have a hard time working out what these network visualizations 
are meant to be telling me. That academic disciplines are connected? Did I 
*really* not know that before looking at the pretty picture? 


R
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