Re: [FRIAM] new studies confirm existence galaxies almost-no-dark-matter

2019-04-02 Thread Eric Smith
This is really nice, Glen, and not one I had seen. Many thanks, Eric > On Apr 2, 2019, at 8:20 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > > I second the thanks, Eric! Your "stripped via collision" lead me to Google. > I try to follow Ethan Siegel, but totally missed this post from last year: > > https://medium.c

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 190, Issue 1

2019-04-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
I have inside information that none of that happened in Hywel's case. He was born in Wales in 1932. His father was a coal miner who became a milkman after an injury. Not typical recipients of IVF. Yes, you biologists are a PITA. Right, Ken. --- Frank Wimberly

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 190, Issue 1

2019-04-02 Thread Nick Thompson
Frank, Just to be clear, if the fertilized egg from which he was spawned was from another woman, THAT woman would NOT be his biological mother? And the woman who nursed him and raised him after he was adopted at birth would not be his biological mother. And yet the man whose sperm was used

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 190, Issue 1

2019-04-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
I never thought I would say that on the Friam List. On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:38 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Only one of them carried him in her uterus. > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:29 AM Nick Thompson > wrote: > >> F >> >> What if his mother was an identical twin? >> >> N >> >> Nicholas S. Tho

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 190, Issue 1

2019-04-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
Only one of them carried him in her uterus. On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:29 AM Nick Thompson wrote: > F > > What if his mother was an identical twin? > > N > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldes

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 190, Issue 1

2019-04-02 Thread Nick Thompson
F What if his mother was an identical twin? N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of u?l? ? Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 190, Issue 1

2019-04-02 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
Speaking of which, have y'all seen these?: Half Derivative of x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAhCTDc6oA&t=633s Imaginary derivative of x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMalym_n8zM The enthusiasm is infectious! On 4/2/19 9:03 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > Why wouldn't the adjacent possible of

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 190, Issue 1

2019-04-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
Why wouldn't the adjacent possible of the cigarettes being on a high shelf the state in which the cigarettes are on that shelf but 1 mm to the right. What resolution is involved. Almost every physical variable is analog. Aside: Hywel once said to me that the number one doesn't exist because if y

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 190, Issue 1

2019-04-02 Thread glen∈ℂ
Well, I can't speak for the people advocating the AP, which I couldn't do because I'm too ignorant of what the users of the term mean by it. But I agree with you they seem to be talking about social systems more so than biological systems. It reminds me of Luhmann's extrapolation of autopoies