. MacArthur said, Every mathematical model is a lie -- but one that
hopefully allows us to glimpse a bit of the truth.
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.
Unfortunately, I'm old enough to remember it quite well.
Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah,
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December 24, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
Not-So-Lonely Planet
By OLIVER MORTON
San Francisco
THEY came for the Moon, and for the first three orbits
. Growth rates. Oldest clones may be c.
11,700 years. Growth, Zygophyllaceae
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), making chromosomal sex determination older in the
mammal-like reptiles than in the dinosaurs, but making both forms of sex
determination quite old.
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of an
earmark, but occurred as a legitimate allocation of resources of the agencies
conducting the study. However, he's apparently not going to let these few facts
get in the way of one of his standard jokes.
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how little it
costs nowadays.
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has been put into up to this point, or how
much good it appears that it might do.
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changing the materials used for roofing, including
creating rooftop gardens:
http://www.epa.gov/hiri/strategies/greenroofs.html
...but other, far less expensive cool roofing solutions are available as well
without going to the bother of creating rooftop gardens.
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airconditioning, and any attribute that
lessens overall power consumption is only to the good.
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and type in Los Angeles River.
Angelinos revel in seeing who can take the ugliest photograph of the river.
In either case, the disconnectance between the river and its peripheral
habitats, which really don't exist any longer, will be obvious.
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from the pool, it cools and is populated by a differentially
temperature-optimized species of cyanobacteria, forming surprisingly thick
microbial mats.
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attention to the various causes of speciation when you get to
that section.
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variety of biotypes before
competition set in again once more slowed evolution to a halt.
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PowerPoint slides than it does on those of biochemists, the
audience for whom he originally meant the comment.
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/html_docs/IBP_toon.html
Ecology has retreated from this vision nowadays, but it's certain to retry this
level of prediction again some time in the future, but in a more mature fashion.
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*, not the trivial, obviously untrue null
hypotheses that have become common in ecological research nowadays. We learn
nothing of mechanism or process when we do the latter.
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Anderson is saying the same
thing as Richard Feynman, and I very much congratulate him for it.
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petroleum-based fuels will be expensive (as
Hamlet also said, Aye, there's the rub), but it's certainly not impossible,
and if necessary, it can occur with astounding speed, without any loss of
creature comforts or the imposition of great economic hardship.
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. But it is not the
greatest threat that mankind has ever created for life on this planet.
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plume of smoke
over the Pacific that's resulting from the fires:
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/socal_wildfires_oct07.html
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See:
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That posting in turn refers to Chris Merchant's webpage at:
http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/chris/
which has the material (and more now) that you are looking for.
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into the Congressional Record several times now. For a general overview of their
tactics, see:
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/jul/policy/pt_congress.html
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, and some
errors slip through the most intense selective processes.
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and install our (Windows-only)
player:
http://www.aics-research.com/qcshow/playerhome.html
Quick instructions on using the player occur just below the downloading
instructions.
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standards,
while the last 33% (slides 64-88) is a natural history quiz that Rick put
together, musically accompanied by David Hillis (UT Austin) and his lab band,
PhyloZydeco. Dan Simberloff gave the introduction.
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foolish, but
to some great degree, how you calculate the volume depends on the necessary
accuracy you require in your answer.
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represents a tremendous resource.
This is of course all that any of us want for ecology as well. But, as the
opinions above express, some sense of authoritative approval seems still
eminently requisite.
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of Energy that has recently taken the
lead on switchgrass:
http://bioenergy.ornl.gov/papers/misc/switgrs.html
although the US Department of Agriculture has been working on the grass for
quite some time now:
http://bioenergy.ornl.gov/papers/bioen98/vogel.html
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, Richard
Dawkins and Bjorn Lomborg.
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appears (which hydrogen-fueled
cars certainly are not), we are already 20 years late
in starting a complete conversion to a new way of
doing things
There is a Chinese proverb that says, The best time to plant a tree is one
hundred years ago. The next best time is today.
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economic
environment.
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more informative (and more entertaining) than the
original paper. I've included a copy of the article below.
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March 8, 2007
In Lice, Clues to Human Origin and Attire
By NICHOLAS WADE
One of the more embarrassing mysteries of human evolution
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the developing world and will only tend to excerbate
the differences between the have and have not peoples of the world,
creating further tensions, they will also simultaneously put enormous pressures
on
some of the most important biodiversity hotspots remaining.
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cells of the service propulsion stage, where it produced not only electricity
but drinking water as well.
Burning any other, more complex molecule only adds a mix of polluting
combustion products to the atmosphere. With hydrogen, the only pollutant is
water.
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, The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your
sources.
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level, but
I'd
bet my bottom dollar there's going to be a little pathway of genes in here
that's mediating this process.
-- http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ridley03/ridley_p5.html
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Stan asks:
Why do we have the disconnect between possession of reptiles versus birds?
It's probably not irrelevant to know that the Greek, Latin and English words,
herpeton, serpens, and creepy all mean the same thing and are derived
from one another.
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in the past.
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with the next series emphasizing evolutionary genomics.
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, it is quite an honor, and I am truly tickled for
him.
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I forgot to include the URLs I had intended. My apololgies:
http://www.knaw.nl/heinekenprizes/prizes_env.html
http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/news/pressrelease_detail.cfm?nieuws__id=423
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in the Bulletin of the ESA. It's on-line at:
http://aics-research.com/research/esa-shannon.pdf
The original title was, A profoundly repeated pattern. (Comments on the
death of Claude Shannon and the intimate relationship of information to life),
but the title was trimmed in publication.
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alternate universe of death and famine, we
unfortunately have a
simple, easy-to-understand mechanism, one that does eventually builds the
most exalted objects which we are capable of conceiving, the production of the
higher animals.
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the germline, the phyletic
lineage
becomes, after a fashion, immortal.
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sections in
the Origin of Species, Extinction caused by natural selection. You can
read the section on-line at:
http://www.bartleby.com/11/4006.html
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(in normal circumstances)
proves
to be of great benefit in a shifted environment. Indeed, if the selection
coefficient were as strong in humans due to HIV as the toxin was to the flies,
we
too would all soon be carriers of the modified allele and HIV would be reduced
to a childhood disease.
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is arguably a more
serious consequence for engineers than biologists.
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://aics-research.com/lotw/
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just a little closer to the Sun than Earth is.
Let me again recommend David Grinspoon's talk on the geological atmospheric
history of Venus:
http://aics-research.com/lotw/lotw20060619.html
If you're not familiar with the story, it is jaw-dropping science.
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The Evolutionary Biology Lecture of the Week for June 5, 2006 is now
available at:
http://aics-research.com/lotw/
The talks center primarily around evolutionary biology, in all of its
aspects: cosmology, astronomy, planetology, geology, astrobiology, ecology,
ethology,
biogeography,
. But because this is a
children's lecture, it is also an excellent introduction to the field.
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The Evolutionary Biology Lecture of the Week for May 22, 2006 is now
available at:
http://aics-research.com/lotw/
The talks center primarily
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Evolutionary Biology Lecture of the Week for May 15, 2006 is now
available at:
http://aics-research.com/lotw/
The talks center primarily around evolutionary biology, in all of its
aspects: cosmology, astronomy, planetology, geology, astrobiology, ecology,
)^2 / pi * r^2 = 1/4
The probablility that all three seeds would fall into the smaller area is
thus:
P(all seeds) = 1/4 * 1/4 * 1/4 = 0.015625
or about 1.6%.
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not only as a diversity pump but as a
complexity pump as well.
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.
An introduction to Reta's talk is presented below.
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March 13, 2006
Looking for Life in All The Wrong Places
Cassini and Huygens at the Saturn System
Reta Beebe, New Mexico State University
54 min. (requires QCShow Player)
In our search for a second
between
those equations that been determined to accurately represent the subtle physics
of the universe and those that have been devised by automated discovery
mechanisms.
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costs of additional complexity are accurately represented in the second term,
then you would always choose the lowest absolute value.
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that the causations of their resource destruction may be highly varied
and
complex, in the aggregate, the trend seems simple and clear.
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/sec * 86,400 sec/day * 1 day = 86,400 cubic ft
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and that it has no antecedents.
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occupation.
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