See http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1976/02/09/1976_02_09_038_TNY_CARDS_000316706
for the second article in the series, found via Bing. On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Nicholas Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Thanks, Everybody, > > > > It Was Barry Commoner, in a three article series in the NY-er beginning Feb > 2, 1976, called “Energy”. > > > > And it does have a long and loving account of entropy. I still haven’t been > able to read it because the archive system is hostile to ordinary mortals, > but I will let you all know if it is as good as I remember it being. My > especial gratitude to Carl Tollander and John Kennison, who helped me look, > and to Renata Golden, who found it. > > > > What threw me off the scent was that Commoner wrote a book, a few years > earlier on a closely related topic, that does not mention entropy once! > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > From: Nicholas Thompson [mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net] > Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 9:24 PM > To: 'c...@plektyx.com'; 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' > Subject: RE: [FRIAM] Help with memory > > > > Carl and everybody, > > > > The Wikipedia entry sure looked like it was going to have the reference, but > alas, it did not! > > > > You are probably all prepared for one of the well-known terrors of old age, > that you forget stuff. But another terror of old age you may not know about > – that you remember with great force and clarity things that never > happened. > > > > So, everybody, despite Carl’s best efforts, the question remains open. I > have put in calls to local nursing homes, but in the meantime could you put > your thinking caps on? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Nick > > > > PS What the dickens did Roger Rabbit have to do with street cars and > entropy? > > > > > > > > From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf > Of Carl Tollander > Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 8:28 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Help with memory > > > > Google "Roger Rabbit", which sends you to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_streetcar_scandal Many > links. > > On 12/17/10 8:03 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Many years ago, perhaps more than 40, I swear I read a series of articles, > later published as a book, that laid out the basic principles of entropy, > told the history (perhaps mythic) of how GM tore up the trolley lines in LA > to get its dirty busses to replace clean trolley cars, argued that we would > in the next 40 years transition to natural gas as the price of other fossil > fuels rose, etc., etc. I think I read it in the New Yorker, and I have had > two candidates for who wrote it, both of which have turned out to be wrong: > Bradford Snell and Barry Commoner. Does anybody else remember it? Is > anybody else on this list OLD enough to have read it? > > > > I promise I have googled the hell out it to no avail. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > http://www.cusf.org > > > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- George Duncan georgeduncanart.com (505) 983-6895 Represented by ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward. Soren Kierkegaard ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
