Yay, so now everybody's seen their UPS... no, not package delivery, their BIG UPS, the big ups I was doling out.
I'm sure I will do more soon. There are so many Friends List people to choose from. Right now, I want to do some observations and a book review on physics that... maybe CruxBase will read... maybe pygmy... don't get me wrong, I'm not saying y'all are stupid and smelly
...if I really thought you were stupid, no WAY in hell would you be on my Friends list... I'm just being realistic here: 1) I've written long scholarly nonfiction Journals, 2) I've cut-pasted huge segments of book reviews and historical stories, and 3) seen others do the same around the site. I know how many Comments they generate!!... but relax, I am first starting off with an observation about "celebrity marriage" and Jackass The Movie.
Having read a bunch of Sleater-Kinney interviews now, I know Corin Tucker is married to director Lance Bangs (many ages ago, she did go out with Carrie Brownstein for a while; I wonder how many S-K fans know that? As for that little tryst [not this Tryst, their tryst], as soon as I start contemplating Carrie and Corin "together," my mind is going straight to the same place where horrible fratrats's go when they watch Girls Gone Wild or Too Hot for Jerry Springer or something. I respect S-K as musicians!! I am trying to keep this dignified!!). I was just watching Jackass again and realize that Lance is the guy who 1) vomits when England shits himself, 2) vomits when Knoxville gets the paper cuts, then when they kick him (Lance) in the balls. Lance getting kicked in the balls happens at least a couple times, including the bonus footage and "Making Of" show...
So this below is part of a review by Keay Davidson of the book A Different Universe by Robert B. Laughlin, who is one of the (Nobel-winning) students of the new-ish field of "emergence" theory:
By breaking matter into atoms, subatomic particles and subatomic forces, and by disassembling living organisms into such discrete elements as cells, genes, enzymes and so forth, scientists have learned much about how nature works, and how we can make it do our bidding.
Inevitably, reductionism has been overused. Not everything can be reduced to cosmic nuts and bolts. In the emerging sciences of the 21st century, many researchers are dusting off an old saying: ''The whole is more than the sum of its parts.''
A recent example: many molecular biologists once thought the chemical information stored on DNA coded for the full complexity of living organisms. But a few years ago, the Human Genome Project revealed people have far too few genes (not many more than a roundworm) to account for the kaleidoscopic complexity of the human body. By itself, it appears, DNA cannot explain it any more than you can infer the United States Constitution from the traffic laws of Topeka. Somehow, biologists propose, higher-level ''organizational'' or ''emergent'' principles switch on at larger sizes, such as on the scale of proteins.
Laughlin, who teaches at Stanford University, illuminates emergent principles through a charming analogy: the paintings of Renoir and Monet. Up close the paintings look like ''daubs of paint,'' nothing more. Yet when we step back from the canvases, we see fields of flowers. ''The imperfection of the individual brush strokes tells us that the essence of the painting is its organization. Similarly'' -- Laughlin adds in a most unexpected segue -- ''the ability of certain metals to expel magnetic fields exactly when they are refrigerated to ultralow temperatures strikes us as interesting because the individual atoms out of which the metal is made cannot do this.''
A major step toward recognition of emergent phenomena was a discovery about electrical conductivity in 1980 by the German physicist Klaus von Klitzing. To understand its significance, be aware of its historical context: in the 19th century Edwin Hall had discovered principles of electrical conductivity usually called the Hall effect, and for a century afterward electrical conduction had been understood as simple Newtonian motion of electrons in a metal.
Von Klitzing found a totally unexpected phenomenon -- that Hall conductivity in strong magnetic fields and ultralow temperatures changes in a precise, stepwise fashion as the field strength is varied. What identifies the effect as emergent is its precision and the fact that it disappears in small samples. The Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to him in 1985 specifically cites this work.
I'm sure I will do more soon. There are so many Friends List people to choose from. Right now, I want to do some observations and a book review on physics that... maybe CruxBase will read... maybe pygmy... don't get me wrong, I'm not saying y'all are stupid and smelly
...if I really thought you were stupid, no WAY in hell would you be on my Friends list... I'm just being realistic here: 1) I've written long scholarly nonfiction Journals, 2) I've cut-pasted huge segments of book reviews and historical stories, and 3) seen others do the same around the site. I know how many Comments they generate!!... but relax, I am first starting off with an observation about "celebrity marriage" and Jackass The Movie.
Having read a bunch of Sleater-Kinney interviews now, I know Corin Tucker is married to director Lance Bangs (many ages ago, she did go out with Carrie Brownstein for a while; I wonder how many S-K fans know that? As for that little tryst [not this Tryst, their tryst], as soon as I start contemplating Carrie and Corin "together," my mind is going straight to the same place where horrible fratrats's go when they watch Girls Gone Wild or Too Hot for Jerry Springer or something. I respect S-K as musicians!! I am trying to keep this dignified!!). I was just watching Jackass again and realize that Lance is the guy who 1) vomits when England shits himself, 2) vomits when Knoxville gets the paper cuts, then when they kick him (Lance) in the balls. Lance getting kicked in the balls happens at least a couple times, including the bonus footage and "Making Of" show...
So this below is part of a review by Keay Davidson of the book A Different Universe by Robert B. Laughlin, who is one of the (Nobel-winning) students of the new-ish field of "emergence" theory:
By breaking matter into atoms, subatomic particles and subatomic forces, and by disassembling living organisms into such discrete elements as cells, genes, enzymes and so forth, scientists have learned much about how nature works, and how we can make it do our bidding.
Inevitably, reductionism has been overused. Not everything can be reduced to cosmic nuts and bolts. In the emerging sciences of the 21st century, many researchers are dusting off an old saying: ''The whole is more than the sum of its parts.''
A recent example: many molecular biologists once thought the chemical information stored on DNA coded for the full complexity of living organisms. But a few years ago, the Human Genome Project revealed people have far too few genes (not many more than a roundworm) to account for the kaleidoscopic complexity of the human body. By itself, it appears, DNA cannot explain it any more than you can infer the United States Constitution from the traffic laws of Topeka. Somehow, biologists propose, higher-level ''organizational'' or ''emergent'' principles switch on at larger sizes, such as on the scale of proteins.
Laughlin, who teaches at Stanford University, illuminates emergent principles through a charming analogy: the paintings of Renoir and Monet. Up close the paintings look like ''daubs of paint,'' nothing more. Yet when we step back from the canvases, we see fields of flowers. ''The imperfection of the individual brush strokes tells us that the essence of the painting is its organization. Similarly'' -- Laughlin adds in a most unexpected segue -- ''the ability of certain metals to expel magnetic fields exactly when they are refrigerated to ultralow temperatures strikes us as interesting because the individual atoms out of which the metal is made cannot do this.''
A major step toward recognition of emergent phenomena was a discovery about electrical conductivity in 1980 by the German physicist Klaus von Klitzing. To understand its significance, be aware of its historical context: in the 19th century Edwin Hall had discovered principles of electrical conductivity usually called the Hall effect, and for a century afterward electrical conduction had been understood as simple Newtonian motion of electrons in a metal.
Von Klitzing found a totally unexpected phenomenon -- that Hall conductivity in strong magnetic fields and ultralow temperatures changes in a precise, stepwise fashion as the field strength is varied. What identifies the effect as emergent is its precision and the fact that it disappears in small samples. The Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to him in 1985 specifically cites this work.
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estrada:
When I went to school in Olympia my friend's pal was in a class with Corin I think, or something.
liz_marie1222:
Well the habit of trying to get your daily vitamin supplements (namely your vitamin O), while others are in the same vicinity as you is not really a habit that you can control much. I would say that you shouldn't be concerned about kicking that habit as it's not your fault they are around.
