>From the wikipedia article: "Thus, the 150-member group would occur only
because of absolute necessity — i.e., due to intense environmental and
economic pressures."
So, if we run with this speculation, we could further speculate that:
1) those of us with the smallest tribes are the most well of
Interesting site for data junkies
http://blog.dataunbound.com/about/
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Glen,
FWIW, the evolutionary psychological take on this is that we are designed
to live in groiups of 40 to 60 or so. But human beings, in their more
recent evolutionary history, last milllion years or so, have been forced
into larger associations. But, as MacLuhan (?) pointed out, this has be
On Nov 24, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
The concept of celebrity is just this
confusion between village and mass culture.
Brilliant, Nick. Never thought of it that way, but it feels right.
"Whatever happens. Whatever what is, is what I want. Only that. But
that."
Well, my post was supposed to be a joke. Obviously, I have to work on
my delivery. ;-)
But, also fwiw, I totally reject this rhetoric. I don't think there's
confusion between "village" and "world" trust at all, at least not in
healthy people (which is, by definition, _most_ people). I DO think
Same power production as existing wind farms in 100th the land area.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1124/1
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Now what a blithering moment. Cyclists flock to reduce friction. Ditto fish,
I suppose.
So, turbines want less friction with the wind?
Something screwy here.
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
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Glen,
I am not at all sure what it means to have my rhetoric rejected. My facts,
yes; my logic, sure. But my RHETORIC?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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What they lack is mobility - lacking some sort of mobile platform maybe
they could get together and decide where the next best placement would
be and tell the manufacturing and installation people. Some sort of
distributed instantiation - Group orders another member, turbine shows
up in the m
Sorry, everybody. What I meant to write was, "Wait a blithering moment!!!",
suggesting, at least, that the metaphor between bunching up cyclists and
bunching up windturbines was backwards. Don't you WANT your turbines to "feel"
the "headwind"?
Of course I am wrong about this, but I sure wo
If I say that the strength of a triangle is due (in part, obviously) to the
arrangement of its legs, have I "reduced" the the triangle's strength to the
properties of its legs? Well, that depends on what one means by reduced. If
by reduced, one means that only that one has made mention of t
On those "the strength of a triangle", and "that triangleness causes
strength" suppositions: Bosh. Balderdash. Bushwaw. Bull Puckee.
Everybody knows that triangles are inherently unstable because eventually
(and sooner rather than later), the injured party finds out about that third
"leg", a
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