[FRIAM] Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

2007-01-08 Thread Mikhail Gorelkin
The good movie and the good site about it http://www.perfumemovie.com/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

[FRIAM] Lecture Wed Jan 10: Jan Hauser - Internet Augmented Society

2007-01-08 Thread Stephen Guerin
SPEAKER: Jan Hauser, Integrated Innovation TITLE: Internet Augmented Society TIME: Wednesday, 10 January 2007 @ 12:30p LOCATION: Redfish Conference Room, 624 Agua Fria Street Lunch will be avialable for $5 ABSTRACT: Modern life-patterns have produced many benefits for humanity but some perilou

Re: [FRIAM] observations of complex phenomena while in Mexico

2007-01-08 Thread Raymond Parks
Hugh Trenchard wrote: > Thanks for all your comments. I just now had a moment to try and catch up with FRIAM and read your thread. As far as drafting goes, I would suggest that there may be some use of wingtip vortices, a normally harmful phenomenon. > Also, Phil, I would argue that stro

[FRIAM] A new sort of calculator

2007-01-08 Thread Martin C. Martin
This group might get a kick out of this. "Imagine writing a calculation down on paper and the paper magically working out the answers. We have built a calculator that works like this, which is ideal for pen based computers and interactive whiteboards in classrooms. It recognises your handwritin

Re: [FRIAM] Mechanics of Formation Flight

2007-01-08 Thread Phil Henshaw
The cool thing to me about Peter's marvelous work is it shows the wiggly line between what physics is best noted for, finding those reliable and repeatable structures of the universe, and the continuing dark mysteries of the mathematics we have to cook up for them. and as he put it, that "The birdi