[Marsha] I've read this chapter several times, and it is probably for that reason I miss Krimel. For all my skepticism, I like science, and I enjoyed Krimel's defense.
"By the time Phaedrus finished reading about Boas he was confident he'd identified the source of the immune system he was up against, the same immune system that had so rejected Dusenberry's views. It was classical nineteenth-century science and its insistence that science is only a method for determining what is true and not a body of beliefs in itself." [Krimel] It is nice to be missed but I would be remiss to resist the call of so fair a Ms. I give my highest recommendation to any of Malcolm Gladwell's writings. I have commended "Blink" several times in the past. I recently read "Outliers" which deals with the importance of both hard work and dumb luck. In it he compares Robert Oppenheimer with a Sidis type from California and shows how biology, sociology, psychology and parenting produce individuality. I am reading "What the Dog Saw" now and in it he talks about the difference between puzzles and mysteries. Puzzles have solutions. Each new piece of data brings us closer to a solution. When a puzzle has been solved it is no longer a puzzle. Mysteries may or may not have solutions. They may have several. New data makes mysteries more mysterious Rare is the solution that can not be over-turned by some new bit of information. I suspect that many object to science because they believe it regards Life, the Universe and Everything (LUE) as a puzzle. This is a Newtonian view of science. I think LUE as a mystery. Science is a very effective sieve for sifting what matters from what doesn't. It's like Indra's net, only programmable. (That's me not Gladwell) Gladwell's piece on Ronco is surprisingly gripping. He brings a human dimension to Enron and a canine dimension to humans with a piece on the Dog Whisperer. I think his story of Million Dollar Murray is one of the best ever written on the subject of homelessness. He is also available on iTunes I'll bet. He has a TED talk at www.TED.com TED talks are like NOVA only on the internet. Still, I must insist on being missed. In part because, it is nice to be missed and to be missed, one must be missing... Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
