Re: [FRIAM] Mission to Abisko

2020-05-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
A famous proof that is on God's or god's book: Thm:. The square root of two is not rational. Proof: Assume sqrt(2) = p/q a fraction where p and q have no common factors. Square both sides of the equation so p*p/q*q = 2. Therefore p*p = 2*q*q so p*p is even which means p is even. So p*p is a

[FRIAM] Medical Anthropology Launches a New Website About Life During COVID-19

2020-05-17 Thread Tom Johnson
Princeton The Medical Anthropology course taught by João Biehl (Anthropology) and Onur Günay (Woodrow Wilson School) has launched a new website which showcases work by students, critically analyzing the multifaceted medical, social, and political-economic challenges brought on by the COVID-19

Re: [FRIAM] Mission to Abisko

2020-05-17 Thread Angel Edward
I went to grad school with John. Known him for almost 50 years. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home)

[FRIAM] Mission to Abisko

2020-05-17 Thread Prof David West
By John L. Casti and Anders Karlqvist Casti seems to hail from Santa Fe — anybody know him? Our conversations involving metaphor and story and science prompted me to reread this book over the weekend. I would like to highly recommend it to everyone on the list. The subtitle of the book is

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM: The Comic Edition: April 2020

2020-05-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
They're afraid of being eaten by Morlocks. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, May 17, 2020, 5:51 PM cody dooderson wrote: > The Wikipedia article for Eloi, which I am positive the illustrator read > , doesn't paint a very good

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM: The Comic Edition: April 2020

2020-05-17 Thread cody dooderson
The Wikipedia article for Eloi, which I am positive the illustrator read , doesn't paint a very good picture of the Eloi. Is he or she insinuating that friam subscribers are scared of the dark? On Sat, May 16, 2020, 10:47 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I had a different perspective on

[FRIAM] Master Question List for COVID-19 (caused by SARS-CoV-2) - mql_sars-cov-2_-_cleared_for_public_release_20200512.pdf

2020-05-17 Thread thompnickson2
They keep updating this. https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mql_sars-cov-2_-_cleare d_for_public_release_20200512.pdf -- --- .-. .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-.

Re: [FRIAM] from 5/15 virtual FRIAM

2020-05-17 Thread Marcus Daniels
Nick writes: < It seems to me that most of our actions are based on faith. A genuine skeptic would just be a quivering mass of jello. > It seems absurd to say `faith-based investing’. Why would one put their well-being in the hands of an organization that didn’t have a plan to manage risk?

[FRIAM] to the local congregation

2020-05-17 Thread thompnickson2
7 new cases in Santa Fe, yesterday! I think it’s a blip, a batch of cases coming in from nursing homes. Still, in conjunction with Jon’s report of cheerful hoards of maskless covid-denying Texans arriving in Santa Fe on Friday, it did cause me concern. n Nicholas Thompson Emeritus

Re: [FRIAM] The plague

2020-05-17 Thread Merle Lefkoff
It's a good time to share small bits of good news. https://www.972mag.com/coronavirus-hotel-jerusalem/ At the end of the article, I note that the writer grew up in a peace village in Israel called Neve Shalom Wahat al Salam, an intentional community where for generations Jewish and Arab families

Re: [FRIAM] from 5/15 virtual FRIAM

2020-05-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
Sorry. I am not used to this (&^%( keyboard. That's wonderful, Jon. On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 10:44 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > > > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 10:26 AM Jon Zingale wrote: > >> Frank, >> >> Thank you for your response. As a variant of your statement >> about mathematics and god,

Re: [FRIAM] from 5/15 virtual FRIAM

2020-05-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 10:26 AM Jon Zingale wrote: > Frank, > > Thank you for your response. As a variant of your statement > about mathematics and god, Paul Erdos believed in *the book. *He > believed that the book was were god kept all of his most elegant > proofs of theorems. He would say to

Re: [FRIAM] The plague

2020-05-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
La Peste On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 10:10 AM Jochen Fromm wrote: > Is it a good time to read Albert Camus' 'The Plague' ? Frank and David > have so much books on their bookshelves that they probably have it > already... > >

Re: [FRIAM] The plague

2020-05-17 Thread George Duncan
I reread The Plague two years ago for a summer workshop at United Church of Santa Fe. It is a powerful novel simply as a literary work but is especially powerful as an extraordinarily human response to the threat of widespread death. Highly recommend but particularly now. On Sun, May 17, 2020 at

Re: [FRIAM] from 5/15 virtual FRIAM

2020-05-17 Thread thompnickson2
Marcus, It seems to me that most of our actions are based on faith. A genuine skeptic would just be a quivering mass of jello. We skeptics are a highly selective lot. Nick Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University

Re: [FRIAM] from 5/15 virtual FRIAM

2020-05-17 Thread Jon Zingale
Frank, Thank you for your response. As a variant of your statement about mathematics and god, Paul Erdos believed in *the book. *He believed that the book was were god kept all of his most elegant proofs of theorems. He would say to his collaborators, 'Yes, that is a *proof*, but now let's look

[FRIAM] The plague

2020-05-17 Thread Jochen Fromm
Is it a good time to read Albert Camus' 'The Plague' ? Frank and David have so much books on their bookshelves that they probably have it already...https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-03-23/reading-camu-the-plague-amid-coronavirus-J.-- --- .-. .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-.

[FRIAM] Fwd: Virtual Harper Lecture with Nicholas Epley

2020-05-17 Thread George Duncan
Fits with some of our discussion. -- Forwarded message - From: Harper Lectures Date: Sun, May 17, 2020 at 9:16 AM Subject: Virtual Harper Lecture with Nicholas Epley To: Designing a Good Life. Problems viewing this email? View online.

Re: [FRIAM] from 5/15 virtual FRIAM

2020-05-17 Thread Marcus Daniels
Stephen writes: < If you have a belief that a collectively intelligent system could be built and you could be a member, welcome to a Faith-based community. > For example, to believe that COVID-19 could hurt someone you know does not involve a leap of faith. It means being able to understand