Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

Hear! Hear! It was wonderful. You all clean up real good! N Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

Many thanks to Duncan and Sherry for being wonderful hosts. Tom and Dorothy On Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 10:59 AM George Duncan wrote: > Excellent suggestion, Stephen > > George Duncan > Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University > georgeduncanart.com > See posts on Facebook, Twitter,

[FRIAM] We discussed this at the Friam Potluck

Nocturnal ice making in early India and Iran In India before the invention of artificial refrigeration technology, ice making by nocturnal cooling was common. The apparatus consisted of a shallow ceramic tray with a thin layer of water, placed outdoors with a clear exposure to the night sky. The b

Re: [FRIAM] Coronavirus vs Flu

Flu is already pandemic. COVID-19 looks like it will go pandemic, but maybe quarantine will buy us enough time for vaccine. COVID-19 has twice the mortality of flu, but don't know how transmissible it is. I currently get a bad flu about once every 5 years, and even then I'm probably only confined t

Re: [FRIAM] on stupidity

Yup, define.. Disgustingness = Authority / Fairness ..and that's my point. That said, there are plenty of liberals who favor their own circle of friends and have their own echo chambers. The fear of loss of order mentioned in that article is pretty much one-to-one with authority. Bill Ba

Re: [FRIAM] on stupidity

Marcus - > < I tend to agree with your intuition that something that seems > egregiously "stupid" might well simply be registered in a different > basis space... or more aptly "a different value system". > > > Indeed, like a provincial value system. One that optimizes for local > in

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

Excellent suggestion, Stephen George Duncan Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University georgeduncanart.com See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Land: (505) 983-6895 Mobile: (505) 469-4671 My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

Uber/Lyft is also an option On Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 9:43 AM George Duncan wrote: > Greetings, FRIAM Party-Goers! > > Sherry Kelsey and I are excited about welcoming you to the big, big FRIAM > social event of the year. We begin this evening at 5pm at our house, Casa > de Arroyo Pequeno, situated o

[FRIAM] Coronavirus vs Flu

I'm reading an NYTimes piece on the Coronavirus containing: But one of the attendees, a public health student, had had enough. Exasperated, she rattled off a set of statistics. The virus had killed about 1,100 world

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

Greetings, FRIAM Party-Goers! Sherry Kelsey and I are excited about welcoming you to the big, big FRIAM social event of the year. We begin this evening at 5pm at our house, Casa de Arroyo Pequeno, situated on the left side of Camino de Cruz Blanca at 1249 just half mile above St. John's College.