I would say self-control is a sufficient but not necessary condition for
doing science. Besides the joy that it gives me to find out about it, my
life will be more or less the same whether I know the ratio of blue to red
elliptical galaxies or not.
I saw there was another (currently small) thread a
Steve Smith wrote at 04/23/2013 05:45 PM:
> I am just now skimming a book, _Shop Class as Soulcraft_ by Matthew B.
> Crawford.
Added to my wish list! Thanks.
https://www.powells.com/biblio/9780143117469
> I believe that some of the discontent being expressed on this list,
> perhaps most acutely
Glen -
Thanks for throwing down here. While I agree with your point made a
while back that we could drive a truck or a train through our likely
differences in opinion about this and that, I appreciate that you seem
to have a similar bandwidth to my own... it doesn't seem to phase you to
sort
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 04:00:15PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote:
> Glen -
> >
> >Personally, I'd love to see people smarter than me discuss David
> >Deutsch's multiverse.
> Yes, me too...
You could always come over to FOAR for that sort of discussion. Or
even FOR, if you don't mind the potential for b
Thanks Steve!
Very interested in these sorts of things!
FRIAM should defintely have more of a demo vibe, we have such interesting
people and projects out there!
and,
cheers!
--joshua
On Apr 24, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> phellow phRIAMers -
>
> I don't know how many other
Nothing I love better than being thrown out of a bar. Exchanging a few
blows with the bouncers, maybe landing a rabbit punch or two on the way
through the door and coming back the next night for another round!
Rules for the anti-FOAR list:
# Use of profanity, insults or excessive ad-hominem
Josh-
And this is only the tip of *my* iceberg and I know that *I'm* only the
tip of the bigger FRIAM iceberg. For the cosmologists in the crowd,
maybe we can coin a 21st century metaphor around dark matter instead?
- Steve
> Thanks Steve!
Very interested in these sorts of things!
FRIAM s