Re: [FRIAM] Debunked: The absurd story about smartphones causing kids to sprout horns | Ars Technica

2019-06-21 Thread Gillian Densmore
Tech Neck maybe (strain of the neck from looking down) maybe. But horns? did that article seriusly just troll for hillarity? On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 6:20 PM Tom Johnson wrote: > And related to another discussion at this morning's session in the Friam > parish. > > > https://arstechnica.com/scie

[FRIAM] Debunked: The absurd story about smartphones causing kids to sprout horns | Ars Technica

2019-06-21 Thread Tom Johnson
And related to another discussion at this morning's session in the Friam parish. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/debunked-the-absurd-story-about-smartphones-causing-kids-to-sprout-horns/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Me

Re: [FRIAM] sensitive, aren't we?

2019-06-21 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
On 6/21/19 12:16 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Books really are an anachronism. Yes. And eBooks suck. A friend is making me read a book on anarcho-capitalism. The meatspace form is way to expensive for my taste, whereas the eBook is only $25. But in order for it to be like a real book, where I can

[FRIAM] WIRED: The Drone Iran Shot Down Was a $220M Surveillance Monster

2019-06-21 Thread Tom Johnson
Check out this great article I read on WIRED: "The Drone Iran Shot Down Was a $220M Surveillance Monster" Update on this morning's drone discussion: https://www.wired.com/story/iran-global-hawk-drone-surveillance/?mbid=email_onsiteshare"; For unlimited access to stories like this on WIRED.com, su

Re: [FRIAM] sensitive, aren't we?

2019-06-21 Thread Frank Wimberly
So CA has about 20 times as many people as NM but 3 times as many cows. You were right about per capita. I agree about the need for dogs. --- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgat

Re: [FRIAM] sensitive, aren't we?

2019-06-21 Thread Marcus Daniels
Ranking of cattle https://beef2live.com/story-cattle-inventory-state-rankings-89-108182 And finally a city with the right priorities! https://thebolditalic.com/there-are-more-dogs-than-kids-in-sf-so-why-are-they-so-hard-to-have-a1e63d1ff6b4 From: Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly Reply-To: T

Re: [FRIAM] sensitive, aren't we?

2019-06-21 Thread Frank Wimberly
Cattle vs people in NM: http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/2016/01/new-mexico-population-cattle-v-people-through-history/ Maybe I'm remembering when I was little. --- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: htt

Re: [FRIAM] sensitive, aren't we?

2019-06-21 Thread Marcus Daniels
Per capita, maybe. https://vegparentsecrets.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/2162538287_353e97a62c_b.jpg From: Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Friday, June 21, 2019 at 12:48 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Gro

Re: [FRIAM] sensitive, aren't we?

2019-06-21 Thread Frank Wimberly
I grew up in the Bay Area and graduated from Cal. Now I live in Santa Fe with 20ish mb DSL. The compensation-fewer people and more cows (maybe). --- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.res

Re: [FRIAM] sensitive, aren't we?

2019-06-21 Thread Marcus Daniels
We jettisoned much of our furniture when we moved to California. So until we buy new shelves, the books and other dubious accumulations are stored in nice boxes in the garage.Somehow we get by. Books really are an anachronism. Meanwhile bay area network speeds are a gigabit a second

Re: [FRIAM] sensitive, aren't we?

2019-06-21 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
This is the funniest thing I've read in several weeks! And I'm not being mean by that, either. Renee' and I have a running joke. She loaned all my HP Lovecraft books to some kid back in ... 1998 or somesuch. I never saw them again. I still can't tell if that was good or bad. On 6/21/19 7:32 AM,

Re: [FRIAM] sensitive, aren't we?

2019-06-21 Thread Nick Thompson
David, Can somebody forward this on to Mike Daly, whose email I can NEVER recover? I was taught this fascinating trope in graduate school... yes, THAT long ago. There is a second shoe, however. Yes the retina (cochlea, etc.) is that sensitive BUT the neural noise is much louder than that. S

[FRIAM] sensitive, aren't we?

2019-06-21 Thread Prof David West
Doing some reading on quantum consciousness and embodied mind and came across these items: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-human-eye-could-help-test-quantum-mechanics/ https://www.nature.com/news/people-can-sense-single-photons-1.20282 (A Rebecca Holmes from Los Alamos Natl. Lab