Re: [FRIAM] FRIAMer /. alert

Eric Smith, channeling Doug Roberts wrote (approximately): "What's the point of calling something an emergent? Then what?" Whereupon, Nick Thompson replied, channeling Winsatt: "It directs your attention to the configurations and timings of things and away to their compositions." Thus it

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAMer /. alert

As you know there are two metal-organic molecules which are essential for life: Hemoglobin, the iron-containing oxygen-transport protein in the red blood cells of vertebrates, and Chlorophyll, the magnesium-containing photosynthesis protein in the green leaves of plants. Therefore it would be int

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAMer /. alert

Hi Jochen, Thank you. I was actually a little surprised, because Ligand Field Theory has been around for a very long time. An important early worker in this area was none other than Leslie Orgel, who seems to have largely dropped interest in metal-organic interactions and gone over to R

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAMer /. alert

Eric Smith is one of the authors, he is on this list as well, right? Congratulations, Eric ;-) -J. - Original Message - From: "Marcus G. Daniels" To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 3:24 AM Subject: [FRIAM] FRIAMer /. alert htt

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAMer /. alert

The thing I like about Slashdot, aside from the stupid humor, of course, is that I'm convinced that some of the smartest people on the planet hang out there. I like a little noise with my signal, it sort of helps keep the system calibrated. --Doug On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Owen Densmore w

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAMer /. alert

..then you read all the off topic /. prattle! Now *there's* a petri dish for you! Owen I am an iPad, resistance is futile! On Sep 5, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > I don't quite know how to say this, so I'll just blurt it out. I am *tired* > of hearing about how somebo

Re: [FRIAM] Variable Constants

Good article from The Economist on this as well: http://www.the-economist.com/node/16930866 On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > And now for something completely different: > > > http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/212252/Fine-Structure-Constant-Maybe-Not-So-Constant >

[FRIAM] Variable Constants

And now for something completely different: http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/212252/Fine-Structure-Constant-Maybe-Not-So-Constant *"**The fine-structure constant* *, a coupling constant characterizing the strength of the electromagn