Re: [FRIAM] DIY science

2013-04-24 Thread Arlo Barnes
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

Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-24 Thread glen
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

Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Smith
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

Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-24 Thread Russell Standish
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

Re: [FRIAM] glasses free 3D - multiview - omnisteroscopic

2013-04-24 Thread Joshua Thorp
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

Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Smith
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

Re: [FRIAM] glasses free 3D - multiview - omnisteroscopic

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Smith
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