[FRIAM] What are you reading?

"Numerical Methods Using Matlab"; Mathews, Fink Mostly, the section on Pade Approximations "Representations of Compact Lie Groups"; Brocker, tom Dieck Thanks to EricS's recent post "Goodnight Moon"; Margaret Wise Brown "Nest"; Jorey Hurley Thanks to Tycho "The Numerical Solution of Systems of Po

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recently read  Homeland Elegies - Ayad Akthar reading: The Importance of Living -

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The Mysterious Benedict Society. Greenwar, by Stephen Gould and Laura Mixon. Cody Smith On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 7:44 AM Roger Frye wrote: > I have books open in many areas at the moment: Zeta functions, Buddhism, > Old Testament, Arabic Poetics, but in fiction, I have been reading James > Baldw

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Finished Robinson last month. It's a long book in which he tells a story about everything he knows, which is a lot. I'm presently reading Amitav Ghosh, "The Great Derangement" (unthinkable climate change); Michael Lewis, "The Undoing Project" (about the partnership between Kahneman and Tversky);

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Agency, by William Gibson, yesterday, The Kingdoms, by Natasha Pulley, currently, The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson, next. -- rec -- On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 5:55 AM Jochen Fromm wrote: > What novel are you reading at the moment? I am reading "Tenochtitlan: The > Last Battl

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No way!!! https://www.llnl.gov/news/national-ignition-facility-experiment-puts-researchers-threshold-fusion-ignition On Sep 7, 2021, at 1:36 PM, Steve Smith wrote:  Mary and I are reading a biography of HD Thoreau and I feel like I have a better bead on who the heck NST is from getting a sli

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Mary and I are reading a biography of HD Thoreau and I feel like I have a better bead on who the heck NST is from getting a slightly better bead on that aspect of small town New England's history/perspective.    Neither of us have spent more than glancing careens through New England population cent

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It might be fun to scan longhand from Nick and copy it here. I guess that wouldn’t work due to a file size limitation by the mailer. Oh well. From: Friam On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 1:15 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRI

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My domain has expired this week too and my email account stopped to work, but I was able to renew it. Hope you are online again soon!-J. Original message From: Nicholas Thompson Date: 9/7/21 19:46 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [F

[FRIAM] Nick has gone dark

I fried my network adapter, so I will have no network connectivity at least until friday. Possibly, longer if it turns out to be a software problem. Didn't want anybody to think I didn't love them. If you need to talk, best to call me at 413-477-6602. God knows I don't have anything else to do.

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I have books open in many areas at the moment: Zeta functions, Buddhism, Old Testament, Arabic Poetics, but in fiction, I have been reading James Baldwin and Stephen Graham Jones. The SGJ short story that got me hooked was https://www.tor.com/2016/09/21/the-night-cyclist/ On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 6:

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Hi Jochen, I used to read novels but lately I don't read fiction. I started to read "The Road" by McCarthy but I couldn't stand the grimness of it. Lately I've been reading, as time permits, "The Language of Blood" by Nieto-Phillips, which is about ethnic identity in New Mexico, and a couple of

[FRIAM] What are you reading?

What novel are you reading at the moment? I am reading "Tenochtitlan: The Last Battle of the Aztecs" from José León Sánchez (which is comparable to "Aztec" by Gary Jennings)https://www.science.org/careers/2019/11/escape-stress-grad-school-i-read-fiction-J.- . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..