Here's a link to a TED talk by him: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html
-- Shermin de Silva, Ph.D Director Uda Walawe Elephant Research Project email: [email protected] http://elephantresearch.net/ <http://elephantresearch.net/fieldnotes> http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~sdesilva On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Wayne Tyson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jane, > > It's a fair request, but I'm not sure I can do justice to it; reviews might > help. Anyway, I'll take a stab at it. Johnson is more of an "ecology" kinda > guy about ideas rather than an "agronomy" kinda guy. "When you think of a > commons, you think of a cleared field dominated by a single resource for > grazing. You don't think of an ecosystem. The commons is a monocrop > grassland, not a tangled bank." (p.244) Hope this helps. > > WT > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Shevtsov" <[email protected]> > To: "Wayne Tyson" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:24 PM > Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Advancing Theory Irony? Re: [ECOLOG-L] Advancing > theory in biology (NSF) > > > Hi Wayne, > > For those of us who haven't read Johnson (or at least not the book > you're referring to), can you please summarize his ideas or link to an > article? > > Thanks, > Jane > >
