Re: [FRIAM] FRIAMer /. alert

2010-09-07 Thread Sarbajit Roy
If there were no metals you would not have a periodic table. On 9/7/10, Jochen Fromm wrote: > Therefore it would be interesting if metal-organic > structures have a deeper role in the history > of life. At least one can say that without metals > in the periodic table, no life as we know it would

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2010-09-06 Thread Nicholas Thompson
sitions." Thus it was concluded. -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Eric Smith Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 3:07 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] FRIAMer /. alert

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2010-09-06 Thread Jochen Fromm
ty Coffee Group" Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 9:07 PM Subject: 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

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAMer /. alert

2010-09-06 Thread Eric Smith
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

2010-09-06 Thread Jochen Fromm
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

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2010-09-06 Thread Douglas Roberts
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

2010-09-06 Thread Owen Densmore
..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] FRIAMer /. alert

2010-09-05 Thread Douglas Roberts
However, the underlying science of biological catalysis is fascinating. On Sun, 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 somebody has suddenly come to the conclusion > that this or that thi

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2010-09-05 Thread Douglas Roberts
I don't quite know how to say this, so I'll just blurt it out. I am *tired* of hearing about how somebody has suddenly come to the conclusion that this or that thing exhibits *emergent behavior*, or how this, that or the other thing simply *must* be an* emergent property *of that (or the other) th