It is understandable that many people can't believe that we puny humans
could possibly have a big impact on the environment. My parents used to
refer with reverence and awe to the inexhaustible sea..
Bruce
FRIAM Applied Complexity
Actually, I think there is active scientific research trying to understand
the placebo effect, because the effect and its benefits have been well
documented. As Feynman points out, better understanding could lead to
improved placebo effect.
Bruce
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Ron Newman
There have also been scientific studies involving something called that
nocebo effect, in which expectations of harm are self-fulfilling. I
apologize that I can't at the moment find references to the following two
examples.
People who felt themselves sensitive or insensitive to cell phone
A small personal comment on related matters: It's not uncommon to hear
statements of the form Science can never explain X. Solving for X, one of
the common solutions is consciousness, but there are other popular
solutions to the equation. Step back about 500 years, and humans were not
in a
1, 2013 7:43 PM, Sarbajit Roy sroy...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Bruce
If you liked 3 Idiots, you may enjoy its even better prequel - Munna
Bhai MBBS.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374887/
Sarbajit
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Bruce Sherwood
bruce.sherw...@gmail.comwrote:
Despite all
Feynman had a nice comment on this, Nick. He suggests that faith healers
don't take their faith seriously.
Retrieved from http://faculty.randolphcollege.edu/tmichalik/feynman.htm
There is an infinite amount of crazy stuff, which, put another way, is
that the environment is actively, intensely
Doug, I can't tell whether you're being serious or not. Though I'm not in a
position to act immediately on all the new developments that Owen
enthusiastically ferrets out, I value the fact that he's giving us a
picture of how very much rich ferment there is right now in the
JavaScript/browser
What about Pov-Ray (povray.org)?
Bruce
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
Folks -
I finally bit the bullet that I've been rolling around in my mouth for
some time and tried to find a good ray tracing engine that coupled
(somehow) with SketchUp. The only
A bit off the track: Ruth some years ago wrote a Python module that can be
imported into a VPython program to export scenes to Pov-Ray. She looks at
the VPython scene and writes out a plain text file (or files) representing
that scene in Pov-Ray scene description language. Then one can render the
As an alternative to Sketchup and ray tracing, is it possible that Blender
would provide what you need, Steve? I've never used Blender myself, but I
hear good things about it.
Bruce
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Wow! What an awesome course! It would be difficult to duplicate this
intellectual experience in a traditional educational setting.
Owen, thank you so much for bringing this major development to our
attention.
Bruce
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Ruth Chabay makes an important comment about the credit issue, one that
hasn't come up in this discussion so far. As I said before, we went all the
way through Udacity's CS 101 course, which was excellent. After Ed
correctly pointed out that this and the Udacity computer graphics course
are not at
Despite all this, we experience a very low fraction of unreadable DVDs from
Netflix. Presumably DVD players vary in their ability to deal with flaws.
Also, more and more we along with everyone else streams when possible, so
the DVDs we order are often the less popular kind and so have not had a
Ed's post is highly cogent, and based on tons of experience. One of his
points that I had missed in my own analysis is the key difference between
an on-line course taken by on-campus students and remote students who lack
the supporting social infrastructure and may be consumed by job and life
Roger, it's digipen.org, not digipen.com.
Bruce
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Awesome, Stephen! Just like all the other X-prizes!
And boy do you have Ruth's number.
Bruce
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Stephen Guerin
stephen.gue...@redfish.comwrote:
$100 for the first Glowscripp program (glowscript.org) that implements a
Carnot Cycle and thermodynamically
A nice variant is this: Many years ago a friend reported getting a sales
call about window blinds and told the salesman that oh yes she was very
interested in this and please hold the line while she goes and makes some
measurements of her windows..
Bruce
And, alas, many university classes, especially in introductory courses at
large universities, bear little resemblance to the kind of ideal situation
Nick created and sustained but rather look a lot like Nick's nightmare.
Bruce
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To see what a MOOC is like, Ruth Chabay and I took the Udacity CS 101
course.
We were impressed by the course design. The description of the course said
that In about 7 weeks you will build a small search engine, even if you've
never written a computer program before. This goal statement is very
I forgot to mention that a few months ago Ruth started the Scott Page
course with high expectations but eventually dropped it with
disappointment. However, she perceived that Page didn't receive nearly the
kind of infrastructure support that Evans had received from Udacity, at
least in that first
I only tried navigation mode once, briefly, so I can't really testify to
what happens with my ATT Galaxy S3 in that respect.
My main beef with Google currently is that despite major complaints,
including a person pointing out the dangers to someone as a result of
revealing rather publicly with
Ruth goes to Allergy Partners of New Mexico and has been quite satisfied
with them:
http://www.allergypartners.com/newmexico/default.aspx
They're located at 1641 Galisteo in the hospital district. The doctor she
sees there is Gonzalo Alvarez del Real.
Bruce
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:20 PM,
Oh, for completeness I should say that my iPhone and Galaxy S3 are with
ATT.
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Bruce Sherwood
bruce.sherw...@gmail.comwrote:
I've been very happy with my Galaxy S3 phone. At the time I bought it this
summer, my iPhone had removed Google maps, which was a very
You are of course right; the slow replot is just with e-ink. But the other
problems seem to me to be generic to all displays and all current user
interfaces. My guess is that zero consideration has been given in user
interface design to the needs of readers of technical books, including
students.
, as well. I
appreciate google's efforts to make public domain texts freely available.
Apple and Amazon seem more inclined to sell me new e-editions of public
domain works, but maybe I haven't tried hard enough to access the classics
with them.
-- rec --
On Feb 9, 2013 2:15 PM, Bruce Sherwood
in computer-savvy circles
that obviously Windows and Microsoft are hopeless (roll the eyes). That's
not the whole story.
Bruce
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote:
On 2/7/13 10:54 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
To repeat, Windows for my 3D graphics
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On Feb 8, 2013, at 8:32 AM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
I'm not claiming that Windows has all the answers for all
use.
So the Python module situation is Not Good.
Bruce
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Bruce Sherwood
bruce.sherw...@gmail.comwrote:
In the case of 64-bit Python on Windows, that compiler is a rather old
version
So, Roger, you've just given additional, very compelling evidence for
Microsoft incompetence! They weren't even able to kill OpenGL!
Seriously though, the OpenGL piece hasn't been a problem on any platform
except for Ubuntu, where off and on there's a serious problem with VPython
users trying to
In case this isn't a well-known tool, I'll mention that I've been pleased
with Inno Setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) for building
installers for Windows. I've used it for many years.
Bruce
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Russell Standish r.stand...@unsw.edu.auwrote:
On the plus
For what it's worth, I'll mention that my primary machine is Windows, but I
routinely check the behavior of my projects VPython (vpython.org) and
GlowScript (glowscript.org) on Mac and Ubuntu Linux.
Because it's so common for knowledgeable people to do Windows-bashing, I'll
comment that in my
It's not Python that's the issue, it's the C++ Visual module which (until
the very recent work) had three C++ components (for Windows, Mac, and
Linux) for creating windows and handling events.
On the Mac, the problem is that it has often happened that a minor
operating system upgrade made
To repeat, Windows for my 3D graphics development purposes has been far
more stable than either Mac or Ubuntu Linux.
Bruce
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
It just might be, however, in the grander scheme of things, time for the
degenerate M$ genome
I develop scientific software (VPython, GlowScript), not exactly for a
living but as an important supplement to a physics textbook and curriculum.
I'm committed to making these 3D programming environments work in Windows,
Mac, and Linux. In the 12 years of the life of VPython, Windows has been
-farm.netwrote:
Windows what: XP? If so, it had better be stable. It's been around since
2001!
On Feb 7, 2013 10:55 PM, Bruce Sherwood bruce.sherw...@gmail.com
wrote:
To repeat, Windows for my 3D graphics development purposes has been far
more stable than either Mac or Ubuntu Linux.
Bruce
All of which is true, Owen, but I'm afraid you're making the natural
mistake of extrapolating from your own interests, experiences, and high
capabilities. The people like you and others on this list are in the world
at large a set of measure zero, albeit a set we don't want to neglect or
fail to
and there
weren't any graduate students or postgraduate fellows around.
-- rec --
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Bruce Sherwood
bruce.sherw...@gmail.comwrote:
I very strongly disagree with the notion that facilitators need not be
content experts. In many domains it is crucial that a good
The Shirky article is thoughtful. Thanks for the pointer. A key issue,
which Shirky handles well, is the need to compare apples with apples. Many
university courses are just plain not very good, for all the reasons he
gives. I've seen the kind of criticism of MOOCs that he rightly challenges.
Remember that the current consensus theory is that the Moon was ejected
from the Earth when a Mars-sized object struck the Earth. Almost all
objects in the Solar System lie in the same plane (the ecliptic plane),
associated with the original disk-like concentration of material. There's
no reason
Here's my own hopefully amusing version of this: Some years ago when they
were popular my wife and I enjoyed playing the Myst type of computer
adventure game, where you go around in a beautifully rendered world looking
for clues to solve puzzles. What are the criteria for a good game? From our
with the predictions of solar physics, and
there would have been no puzzle to engage our interest.
Bruce
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Bruce Sherwood bruce.sherw...@gmail.comwrote:
Here's my own hopefully amusing version of this: Some years ago when they
were popular my wife and I enjoyed
Yeah, I'm aware that my idea doesn't hold water -- just playing. Evidence
that we're not in a game is that the putative gamemaster didn't block my
note from appearing. If you hadn't responded, I would have had confirmation
of my idea.
Bruce
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Arlo Barnes
My Samsung Galaxy S3 on ATT just got upgraded to Android 4.1. I don't
actually see any obvious changes, so I'm indifferent to questions of
upgrade dates.
Bruce
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Whew! Finally I can update to the latest iOS:
I'll comment again that in 1960 in Italy I was at first intrigued that
parties actually stood for something, whereas Republicans and Democrats
seemed Tweedledum and Tweedledee. However, at least at that time, Italian
politics was pretty dysfunctional in part because the hard ideological
positions
Concerning multiple parties: In 1960, just after college, I studied in
Italy for a year. I thought it be would so great to have multiple parties
that stood for something, because the two US parties looked like Tweedledum
and Tweedledee (not the problem we have now, obviously). Then I saw the
very
Thanks, Owen. There have been some very hopeful signs of real progress
in the Muslim countries, and I was glad to see these splendid quotes.
Bruce
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
In Stephen Pinker's recent book on the remarkable decline of violence,
The Better Angels of our Nature, he makes a similar observation
about the role of merchants, that they necessarily must practice
empathy with respect to an ever-widening circle of people who go far
beyond the emhathy one more
Also, as I understand it, one of the hopeful developments in recent
years is that there HAS emerged significant push-back in the Muslim
world to the fundamentalist extremists. A related development is that
there has been growing Muslim hostility to Al Queda, because they
really don't like Al Queda
Sorry, I don't have a reference. Just general reading.
Bruce
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Thanks .. I had heard similar ideas. Do you have a pointer .. say to an
article or site?
-- Owen
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Bruce Sherwood
That is indeed quite nice. Thanks, Tom.
Of course the physics education version of this map has the rivers
dammed up at time 1860, as nothing happens after that. (I'm alluding
to the fact that the standard university intro physics course taken by
engineering and science students contains nothing
Steve, you're mixing two different periods in your statement, As more
Europeans arrived, things got worse of course and In the early 1600's
the natives pulled together and managed a widespread rebellion large
enough to push the Spanish back south of what is modern day El Paso,
the entire occupied
I draw everyone's attention to the widely unknown fact that violence
in the world has drastically diminished, which is something to be
celebrated (and extended). See the Stephen Pinker book The Better
Angels of our Nature. To give just one striking example that he
cites, only a few hundred years
of what lies at the tip is very evocative.
Regards,
Saul
On 11 July 2012 06:56, Bruce Sherwood bruce.sherw...@gmail.com wrote:
For Engineers perhaps, predictive models are sufficient, they may not
be (very?) interested in explaining *why* a particular material has
the properties it does, merely
Thanks, Dean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_Way_(physics)
gives a brief overview of what Gell-Mann (and Ne'eman) did, and
explains that the octet and decuplet are representations of the group
SU(3). The article includes some links to additional details.
Bruce
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at
For Engineers perhaps, predictive models are sufficient, they may not
be (very?) interested in explaining *why* a particular material has
the properties it does, merely *what* those properties are and how
reliable the properties might be under a variety of conditions.
I don't think this currently
See my blog:
http://matterandinteractions.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/the-higgs-boson-and-prediction-in-science/
Bruce
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Lets chat about the Higgs discovery, its likely-hood of being correct, and
the impact it will have
9, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
See my blog:
http://matterandinteractions.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/the-higgs-boson-and-prediction-in-science/
Bruce
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Lets chat about the Higgs discovery, its likely-hood
I've added a bit of text on the prediction and discovery of the
neutrino and of the antiproton.
Bruce
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Bruce Sherwood bruce.sherw...@gmail.com wrote:
See my blog:
http://matterandinteractions.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/the-higgs-boson-and-prediction-in-science
Unencumbered by having read any of the related literature, I would as
an erstwhile particle experimentalist nevertheless point out that it's
got to be extremely difficult experimentally to be sure that neutrons
are actually going missing, because they're hard to detect in the
first place, being
Another example of a top-of-the-atmosphere special layer is of course the
ozone (O3) layer, continually produced by ultraviolet light but unstable.
These surface phenomena don't have anything to do with how nitrogen,
oxygen, and uranium hexafluoride are distributed throughout the atmosphere.
Huh? That makes no sense. Moreover, there is NO hydrogen or helium in
our atmosphere. Any that we might have once had is long gone. Given
the very large average height and correspondingly high average speed
(and much higher speed in the high-speed tail of the distribution),
these very-low-mass
Okay, there are issues of definitions. I'll note that the upper atmosphere
is bombarded by cosmic rays which in fact are mostly very high-energy
protons originating outside our Solar System. Protons are of course the
nuclei of hydrogen
Bruce
A really spectacular (and somewhat dangerous) demo involves what I
would guess is the densest gas of all, uranium hexafloride, with a
mass of 352 gm/mole. Remember that at equal temperature and pressure a
mole of any gas whatsoever occupies a volume of 22.4 liters, so the
grams/mole is
I realize that I didn't address one of the questions (or one of the
possible questions): Why don't all the air molecules just fall to the
ground and stay there? In case anyone was wondering about that
question, the answer is that the air molecules DO fall toward the
ground, but they continually
I hadn't thought of the physiological issue you raise, but I would
expect a molecule of UF6 to be far too large to pass from the lungs
into the blood stream. Good point, though.
Bruce
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
BasherWo the Science Ninja does it again!
To Nick: By the word gravity what a physicist means is merely that
kind of interaction that masses have with each other, mediated by the
effects mass has on space.
The word is useful, because there are four known kinds of
interactions: gravitational, electromagnetic, weak (the
interaction
Thanks, Owen. Yes, it is indeed the case that in the modern
perspective of quantum field theory, forces are replaced by the
interchange of (virtual) particles. I didn't want to make my
comments unnecessarily complicated by talking about this aspect of
field theory, but you're right.
I'd like to
Newton famously said about action at a distance, I frame no
hypotheses. I take this to mean something like the following:
I completely agree with you that I haven't explained gravity. Rather
I've shown that observations are consistent with the radical notion
that all matter attracts all other
space-time nearby rather than acting on other masses at a distance?
Just askin'
Grant
On 5/18/12 4:13 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
Newton famously said about action at a distance, I frame no
hypotheses. I take this to mean something like the following:
I completely agree with you that I
It has been 50 years since major physicists played any role in the
creation of intro-level physics textbooks, as opposed to
graduate-level texts. The then-exceptions were the Nobelists Richard
Feynman (The Feynman Lectures on Physics) and Ed Purcell
(Electromagnetism in the Berkeley Series).
It
is no longer true for fiction authors.
--Doug
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Bruce Sherwood bruce.sherw...@gmail.com
wrote:
The situation for complex textbooks is quite different from the
situation for other kinds of books.
For nearly 20 years Ruth and I did ALL of the work on our
Following on the heels of the truly horrible Apple scheme for screwing
etextbook authors, here's another truly horrible Apple scheme for
screwing Macbook customers:
http://www.seattlerex.com/seattle-rex-vs-apple-the-verdict-is-in/
I gather this tale has gone viral.
Bruce
I should have pointed out that the ebook version of our textbook is
available to students for $20 per semester (essentially rented).
Though there are several suppliers, the only effective one is
WebAssign, a computer homework system for which Ruth and I created a
suite of questions from our
This is presumably a response to a note I wrote about a thousand
emails ago, in which I claimed for Owen (and me) the right to be
interested in star populations and the evolution of sentience just
simply because we're interested in it, and I didn't like your
challenging us and asking for
Uh, does there have to be a reason? I'm interested just because I am
-- a portion of trying to understand as much about the Universe we
inhabit as is possible.
To put it another way: Why are you interested in the details of the
definition or use of induction? I found that discussion massively
I think you meant z = x y, Owen.
In the TUTOR language of the PLATO computer-based education system
(see links on my home page, http://www4.ncsu.edu/~basherwo), I
implemented a function called compute for evaluating algebraic
student input in which xy (or x y) was treated as x*y. The method
In the easy-to-use WebGL-based GlowScript 3D programming environment
(glowscript.org) you can now specify the opacity of an object (other
than curve, ring, and helix). The following statement creates a
cyan-colored cube that has low opacity (high transparency):
box( {color.cyan, opacity:0.2 } )
For the record, I repeat that Microsoft provides a free version of
Visual Studio which I've found completely adequate for serious C++
work, including working with the Boost libraries. I compile the
C++/Boost component of the VPython project (vpython.org) for all
platforms, including Windows, and
The Ubuntu installer for creating a dual-boot machine is vastly easier
to use now than it was a few years ago. I rather doubt that other
Linux distributions would have put as much work into this as Ubuntu
has. I tried to use Wubi but wasn't able to make that work; your
results may vary.
Cygwin or
,
Would you be willing to get into the weeds a bit about what those costs are?
My imagination is failing me, here.
Nick
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Just released: GlowScript 0.7, which adds easy-to-use textures applied
to 3D objects.
GlowScript is an environment in which you can write JavaScript
programs in a browser that produce navigable real-time 3D animations
on a web page, without having to learn the quite significant
complexities of
There are real costs that someone must pay. A promising approach
adopted by some physics journals is to have the authors pay, with
readers having free access. NSF considers author publication fees a
reasonable part of doing business, and physicists are including these
costs in grant proposals. In
This link to an Oersted Medal talk is indeed of great interest. The
author, the theoretical physicist David Hestenes, built on the
foundation laid by mathematicians in the 19th century and in an
important sense completed their work on what is called Geometric
Algebra, a framework which unifies
Owen, thanks much for this information. I've put a link in the
GlowScript help. This is the first example I've seen of teaching
JavaScript to novices who have never programmed before, and the first
low-level introduction that very usefully doesn't assume you have
extensive html experience but just
I was intrigued to read somewhere that as recently as about a hundred
years ago there were criticisms of lab experiments, even in physics,
because what can you learn about Nature with a contrived unNatural
experiment?
Bruce
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:51 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES e...@psu.edu wrote:
I just learned that the Sony Ericsson smartphone/PlayStation device
Xperia PLAY with Android 2.3.4 has WebGL installed. A guy at Verizon
told me that he successfully ran WebGL-based 3D animations from
glowscript.org on this device. He also said that he doesn't know of
other mobile devices
by
installing FireFox, though! On my HTC incredible the rendering is
very slow and lighting doesn't appear to work - everything just looks
ambient.
Bruce
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Bruce Sherwood
bruce.sherw...@gmail.com wrote:
I just learned that the Sony Ericsson smartphone/PlayStation
As it happens, my colleague in the development of GlowScript, David
Scherer, was intrigued by this dancing pendulums video and wrote a
GlowScript program to model this motion:
http://www.glowscript.org/#/user/GlowScriptDemos/folder/Examples/program/DancingPendulums
This works with browsers that
Another comment about the speed of light in matter:
When in the steady state light is traveling through glass, the
frequency of the light in the glass (how many cycles of the sine
function occur per second) is the same as the frequency of the light
in the air. The speed with which a crest of the
You are invited to try out the Beta 0.4 release of GlowScript, an easy
to use 3D programming environment inspired by VPython, but which runs
in a browser window. The programming language is JavaScript, and it
drives the new WebGL 3D graphics library to display in a canvas
element on a web page.
*
About 8-10, I'd say.
Bruce
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Victoria Hughes victo...@toryhughes.com wrote:
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The basic idea was invented and deployed before the advent of the internet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet
Bruce
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Marcos stalkingt...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Grant Holland
grant.holland...@gmail.com wrote:
Excellent high-level
I'm amused/bemused by the history of the word atom, from the Greek
meaning not (a-) cuttable (tom, as in tomography). The 19th-century
scientists who used the word knew Greek, so for them the word itself
was presumably perceived as two components, a-tom, but the object
itself was deemed
Thanks, Rich, for the interesting note.
For another kind of completeness, I'll comment that I speak Esperanto.
In the period 1900-1905, approximately, there was a lot of interest
among French intellectuals in the possible use of a constructed
language for the purpose of international
Interesting reaction to Esperanto vocabulary, which has no Portuguese
roots at all except to the extent that there are many Romance-language
roots in Esperanto, which were borrowed mainly from French or Latin
forms.
A large number of constructed languages including Interlingua were
simplified
Yup. Esperanto is rather well known in Brazil (which still means that
the number of Brazilian speakers of Esperanto is small). In fact,
every week (in 10 minutes in fact) I meet on video Skype with
Esperanto-speaking friends I came to know in the Raleigh area when I
was at NCSU (I now live in
Thanks for posting the Buffet links, Owen. I learned a lot. Buffet is
very appealing.
Bruce
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Way cool guy has a plain talk with Charlie about tax and the economy.
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11845
This
Is there either an algorithm or data for knowing where people will
congregate next Friday morning in Santa Fe?
Bruce
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lectures, archives,
With the St. John's college coffeehouse closed, will there be a Friday
AM meeting somewhere else in Santa Fe this Friday?
Bruce
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analogy, I would be appreciative.
Thanks,
Greg Sonnenfeld
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Bruce Sherwood
bruce.sherw...@gmail.com wrote:
Clearly, this is very much a moving target.
After scrolls were first introduced, was there a lot of innovation
getting the handles just right
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