Re: [FRIAM] The virus that could cure Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and more — NOVA Next | PBS

[Dean Gerber]

This takes some time, but is well worth it.  Try reading this first, then 
Toms's referenced article again.  Or wait for Bruce?
http://phages.org/

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On Friday, March 25, 2016 7:46 PM, Frank Wimberly  
wrote:
 

 If Bruce Simon is back next week, perhaps he can comment.Frank Wimberly
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(505) 670-9918Fascinating and well-written story.  While I am dubious of the 
phrase "...phages such as M13 have only one purpose: to pass on their genes,"  
I wish we had more biologists in FRIAM to explain how this would be 
likely/possible.  Still, a good 
read.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/phage-alzheimers-cure/?utm_source=facebook_medium=pbsofficial_campaign=nova_nextTJ===
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Re: [FRIAM] The virus that could cure Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and more — NOVA Next | PBS

[Nick Thompson]

Tom, Frank, 

 

Well, OK, but until Bruce Simon responds, I guess I am the best you got.  

 

What puzzles me is how one could doubt such a statement.  Is it the attribution 
of “purpose” to a hunk of D[R]NA?  In that case, I agree, because viruses do 
not display the degree of variation to a common outcome that warrants the term 
“purpose”.  Many small creatures do, but not, I imagine, viruses.  

 

But usually, when people make such a statement, they are confounding “purpose”  
(that goal toward which an organism’s behavior is directed) with “function”, 
that outcome by which an organisms behavior (or structure) has been selected 
and/or for which it has been designed.  Allowing this confounding as slip of 
the tongue turns the statement into a truism.  

 

The only other possible objection to the statement I can imagine is one might 
suppose that a virus has other purposes or functions.  

 

Does this help? 

 

Affectionately

 

Your half-biologist, 

 

Nick 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

  
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The virus that could cure Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and 
more — NOVA Next | PBS

 

If Bruce Simon is back next week, perhaps he can comment.

Frank Wimberly
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(505) 670-9918  

Fascinating and well-written story.  While I am dubious of the phrase 
"...phages such as M13 have only one purpose: to pass on their genes,"  I wish 
we had more biologists in FRIAM to explain how this would be likely/possible.  
Still, a good read.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/phage-alzheimers-cure/?utm_source=facebook
 

 _medium=pbsofficial_campaign=nova_next

TJ

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Re: [FRIAM] Weekend Tweet Of The Week

[Roger Critchlow]

él no tiene nada

-- rec --

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Owen Densmore  wrote:

> I love to collect odd tweets.  Here's this weeks nifty:
>
> Lecturing Professor: "a double negative forms a positive but in no
> language does a double-positive express a negative"
> Kid ..."Yeah, Right"
>
> ​
>
> — Owen
>
>
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Re: [FRIAM] The virus that could cure Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and more — NOVA Next | PBS

[Frank Wimberly]

If Bruce Simon is back next week, perhaps he can comment.

Frank Wimberly
Phone
(505) 670-9918

Fascinating and well-written story.  While I am dubious of the phrase
"...phages such as M13 have only one purpose: to pass on their genes,"  I
wish we had more biologists in FRIAM to explain how this would be
likely/possible.  Still, a good read.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/phage-alzheimers-cure/?utm_source=facebook_medium=pbsofficial_campaign=nova_next

TJ

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[FRIAM] The virus that could cure Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and more — NOVA Next | PBS

[Tom Johnson]

Fascinating and well-written story.  While I am dubious of the phrase
"...phages such as M13 have only one purpose: to pass on their genes,"  I
wish we had more biologists in FRIAM to explain how this would be
likely/possible.  Still, a good read.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/phage-alzheimers-cure/?utm_source=facebook_medium=pbsofficial_campaign=nova_next

TJ

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[FRIAM] Weekend Tweet Of The Week

[Owen Densmore]

I love to collect odd tweets.  Here's this weeks nifty:

Lecturing Professor: "a double negative forms a positive but in no language
does a double-positive express a negative"
Kid ..."Yeah, Right"

​

— Owen

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[FRIAM] Fwd: [1st-mile-nm] Akamai Report

[Edward Angel]

At least we’re tied for 49th; usually we stand alone in 49th place.

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Ed Angel

Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

1017 Sierra Pinon
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu 

505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel 


> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Richard Lowenberg 
> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Akamai Report
> Date: March 25, 2016 at 1:01:19 PM MDT
> To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile...@mailman.dcn.org>
> Reply-To: r...@1st-mile.org
> 
> The latest quarterly Report on the Global State of the Internet was recently 
> published.
> 
> https://www.stateoftheinternet.com/downloads/pdfs/2015-q4-state-of-the-internet-report.pdf
> 
> This sentence is from that report:
> 
> Despite seeing 22% quarterly growth in its (U.S.) 10 Mbps broadband
> adoption rate, Idaho remained in last place across the country with
> a 34% adoption rate.   Iowa, New Mexico, and Arkansas shared the
> next-lowest 10 Mbps broadband adoption rate in the country at 36%.
> 
> Of interest, Utah easily ranks among the ten top states in bandwidth and 
> adoption.
> 
> 
> (As I've stated repeatedly since 2008, though not an easy task, NM's low 
> national ranking does not have to be the case, as there are low-cost 
> strategic actions that could move us up to within top 20 ranking within a 
> very few years, while also 'raising our many other boats': education, 
> healthcare, jobs, energy, etc.   The digital divide is firmly rooted among 
> leadership as much as among the rural, poor, elderly and undereducated.)
> 
> RL
> 
> 
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