[FRIAM] You won't believe who's hooking up . .

2009-07-16 Thread Douglas Roberts
*Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire U.S.Treasury Department **Sister Entities to Share Employees, Money*In what some on Wall Street are calling the biggest blockbuster deal in the history of the financial sector, Goldman Sachs confirmed today that it was in talks to acquire the U.S. Department of

[FRIAM] Philosophy, The Thursday Poem on 3 Quarks Daily

2009-07-16 Thread qef
Greetings, all -- Although not likely to contribute to our most interesting discussion of philosophy, an agreeable change of pace, perhaps: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/07/thursday-poem-2.html - Claiborne Booker -

Re: [FRIAM] Philosophy, The Thursday Poem on 3 Quarks Daily

2009-07-16 Thread Robert Holmes
Or as M. Python has it: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/guide/hum/philosophy/philos_song.html -- Robert On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:50 AM, q...@aol.com wrote: Greetings, all -- Although not likely to contribute to our most interesting discussion of philosophy, an agreeable change of pace,

Re: [FRIAM] Philosophy, The Thursday Poem on 3 Quarks Daily

2009-07-16 Thread Steve Smith
I'll see your M. Python and your Young on Philosophy and raise you a Stanislaw Lem on Mathematics: (this one is "Dede Safe") Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tred the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _n_, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

[FRIAM] Where?

2009-07-16 Thread Owen Densmore
Downtown Sub? .. or St John's? -- Owen 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

Re: [FRIAM] Where?

2009-07-16 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
It was my understanding from last Friday that there were going to be St.J events for the next 2 weeks as well, ie tomorrow and next week. So I think it's Downtown Sub. Robert C Owen Densmore wrote: Downtown Sub? .. or St John's? -- Owen