[FRIAM] Anathem-

2009-09-29 Thread Victoria Hughes
Neal Stephenson's latest tome, Anathem, may be of interest to those involved in the recycling conversations here... Tory FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures,

[FRIAM] In Liquid and Air, Scientists Find Order Among the Chaos - NYTimes.com

2009-09-29 Thread joseph spinden
Perhaps of interest to some in the group: Finding Order in the Apparent Chaos of Currents http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/science/29chaos.html?em=pagewanted=all JS FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays

[FRIAM] EvoGrid in New York Times today

2009-09-29 Thread Bruce Damer
FRIAM folk, Today the EvoGrid project was featured in a wonderful article in the New York Times. Written by veteran science and tech reporter John Markoff it features some great quotes from Prof. Richard Gordon and George Dyson and two color images from the original EvoGrid movie. This will

Re: [FRIAM] Wifi on AA1086

2009-09-29 Thread Douglas Roberts
I'm not sure, but I may have been higher than that last weekend: http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/2009/09/saturdays-ullrfest.html --Doug On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.comwrote: I'm claiming the prize for highest altitude Friam post. 35k feet

[FRIAM] NYT Blather on Turbulence!

2009-09-29 Thread plissaman
If you believe that article you will believe anything!  I was shocked that the author refers to Lagrangian reference systems without understanding or ever describing what he means (it's the most simple concept), blathers on about large scale high Reynolds Number Turbulence in Monterey Bay