Re: [silk] Food and interesting new things about feeding the planet?

Hello Peter: Would you know people doing innovative work on food and feeding the planet? > Preferably with some kind of India connection, and people who wouldn't mind > chatting with me on camera. > Varun: https://gfi.org/team/varun-deshpande/ Anusha & Elizabeth: https://edibleissues.in/ Socra

Re: [silk] An anniversary

On 2020-12-19 19:35, Udhay Shankar N wrote: How did you find out about silklist? Share your stories. Udhay -- I'm not certain, but I may have first read of Silklist in Christopher Kelty's book "Two Bits - The Cultural Significance of Free Software"(2008). It so happened that Udhay and I ha

Re: [silk] What are the things you splurge on that are worth the money?

1. Gin. 2. Shoes. 3. Latest addition is a coffee machine and paraphernalia.

[silk] Footnote: Re: What did you change your mind about in 2019?

In my earlier rant-post, excerpted below, which built on the themes of Krishna's initiating rant-post, I wrote about things that I changed my mind about in 2019 that were essentially pretty pessimistic. So I'm just adding this footnote about one thing that I changed my mind about in 2019 that

Re: [silk] What did you change your mind about in 2019?

ion as a corruption-fighter & fair-minded prosecutor. I hold & have always held extremely negative views of virtually all nationally prominent Republicans of my adult lifetime, including Nixon, Reagan, both Presidents Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain & many others. So I've neve

Re: [silk] Bangalore and Chennai food/restaurant recommendations

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 11:35, Biju Chacko wrote: > +1 to Oota. Karavalli used to be my goto for coastal cuisine, but I > haven't been there for several years so I don't know if it's still > good. Oota. Bengaluru Oota Company. Karavalli. All still good.

Re: [silk] A considered opinion

On 2019-09-15 17:03, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: I agree here. Not having an opinion is just how badness continues to flourish.   For example the rise of the Nazis was largely facilitated by the large number of people who just didn’t have any opinion on atrocities as long as they had a strong

Re: [silk] A considered opinion

On 2019-09-15 07:07, Udhay Shankar N wrote: I saw this line from silklister Heather Madrone on another list, and it got me thinking (shared with Heather's permission): I have no opinion on Ito and MIT and the Media Lab. I'm not interested in doing the work to develop a considered view of that

Re: [silk] My thoughts on old age

On 2018-10-27 09:59, Charles Haynes wrote: On Wed., 24 Oct. 2018, 10:48 pm Bruce A. Metcalf, wrote: On 10/24/2018 09:45 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote: > I wonder how many people on this list are in their sixties? Well, me for one, and I've been considering the thoughts posted to this thread with

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

I too prefer asynchronous communication over "real-time" & email over over slack, etc. For various reasons for the past year or so I've been either lurking on Silklist or just ignoring it. But I've got all the messages archived, so if I want to get a sense of what y'all have been talking about

Re: [silk] The end of the teens

Only 20? And yet already world-famous ten years ago. Silklist is certainly a precocious youngster; a child star, if you will, like a prodigy of chess or violin. How many Silklisters are we? And is there a way that I could have found that out myself without asking y’all? Regards, jrs > On

Re: [silk] When was the last time you changed your opinion on something?

I have changed my opinion on Assange and Wikileaks. I used to think Assange was a noble guy performing a useful function; I suspected that the charges brought against him were part of an entrapment operation run by U.S. backed intelligence services. I no longer see any reason to believe that

[silk] Firefighting/Twitter story

Here is a short (nonfiction) story about a fire call I responded to the other night. I’ve recreated it from the twitter threat that was its original format. Passing along to Silklist because (a) I think you might find the story interesting in itself & (b) it naturally causes me to reflect on th

[silk] "Lit Hub" daily newsletter

A daily round up on topics literary and publishing. I’ve forwarded today’s issue, below, to give a taste. jrs > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Literary Hub > Subject: Lit Hub Daily: October 25, 2017 > Date: October 25, 2017 at 10:10:40 AM EDT > To: > Reply-To: Literary Hub > > Lit Hub D

Re: [silk] Soliciting recommendations

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 1:54 PM, WordPsmith wrote: > Do you subscribe to any interesting email newsletters that hold interesting > news / updates / links to things happening within particular disciplines? > Things that interest the practitioners in those fields and have not yet made > it into

Re: [silk] Soliciting recommendations

My occasional newsletter “Technopotheosis” (a portmanteau of ‘technology’ & ‘apotheosis’) is about “Art, ethics, synthetic biology and my glamorous life as construction laborer and unsung literary genius”. This year synthetic biology in general, and CRISPR in particular have been the main focus

Re: [silk] On Lit fests

> On Oct 24, 2017, at 3:43 AM, Shrabonti Bagchi wrote: > > Having said that, I also think that the Indian literary novel in English is > going through a very low phase, and most IWE novels are either written with > the college crowd in mind and are of iffy quality or are genre works (and > ge

[silk] Note from Nicole Galland

Hello Friends, A little while ago I posted a note here from Nikki Galland requesting leads on books about Jews in India and elsewhere. Many of you replied, and I sent your notes to her. She asked me to forward this note to the list: Dear Silklisters: Our mutual friend John Sundman

Re: [silk] What's your primary computing device?

Hope thing worked out OK. According to what I’ve read and seen, it was a monster hurricane in the Caribbean, unimaginably ferocious, but somewhat more merciful to Florida than it might have been. But still a cruel storm whose effects will be felt for years. Best wishes for you and your family

Re: [silk] Novels about Jews in India?

ote: > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 9:08 PM John Sundman wrote: > >> This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine: >> >> "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the >> Arab-World-not-including-Israel? Also interested in hearing about novels >> concer

[silk] Paul Berg

Paul Berg received the Nobel Prize in 1980 for his pioneering work on recombinant DNA — his lab did some of the first experiments inserting a gene from one life form (a virus) into another (a bacterium). I interviewed him by skype last April; the interview is now live on youtube: https://youtu.

[silk] Novels about Jews in India?

This is a query from Nicole Galland, a friend of mine: "Can anyone name a novel about Jews in the Arab-World-not-including-Israel? Also interested in hearing about novels concerning Jews in India. “ Those of you who read books by Neal Stephenson may recognize Nikki’s name; she’s the co-author o

Re: [silk] What's your primary computing device?

3 year old macbook pro. The things I use my cell phone for are basically limited to: — phone calls — occasional text — photos (not very often) — “I am responding” — an app used by the fire department communications center to communicate with volunteer firefighters like me about fires and other

Re: [silk] Silklisters in Boston/Cambridge?

> On Mar 29, 2017, at 12:40 AM, Chew Lin Kay wrote: > > don't cycle when it's cold > outside. It’s OK to cycle when it’s cold outside. Just don’t cycle over the Longfellow Bridge when it’s life-threateningly cold. What will you be studying at Harvard? jrs

Re: [silk] Silklisters in Boston/Cambridge?

Comments within, jrs > On Mar 28, 2017, at 7:13 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > > Cover yourself with many layers of clothing in winter. And have a stiff > drink before attempting to cross the Charles River bridge in the height of > winter. Brrr that was one of the coldest experiences

Re: [silk] In praise of slowness

I took a year and a half sabbatical to be a stay at home parent. While I'd hesitate to call it slowness (heck, anyone with a toddler can never be slow - put that dnnn *runs*) what it did allow me was re-evaluate the things that I want to maximise for and, more importantly, truly underst

Re: [silk] In praise of slowness

Not sure I should attempt an answer at this, but what the heck, here goes. I’ll try to keep it short. After 15+ years in US computer industry as technical writer, manager of publications, and manager of software engineering, including 9 years working for Sun Microsystems when I had offices in b

Re: [silk] what have you produced during enforced downtime?

1. When I was a senior in high school (age 17) I became ill with something or other. Some kind of flu, probably. It only lasted about 3 days, but during that time I was feverish, almost delirious. But somehow I managed to read a good chunk of Lord of the Rings — in 1970, when this book was havin

Re: [silk] Nineteen!

Happy birthday to our SilkMother, whose wormy extrusion binds us all. I don’t think I’ve met any of y’all in proverbial meat space, but I hope to some day. I live on an island south of Cap Cod, Massachusetts, so perhaps not too likely I’ll meet you on my home ground. But I do find myself in Bo

Re: [silk] The IYIs, according to Taleb

> On Sep 18, 2016, at 5:29 AM, Anish Mohammed wrote: > >> On 18 Sep 2016, at 07:42, Sriram Karra > > wrote: >> >> https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577 >> >> >> Foun

Re: [silk] Sunday morning alarmist read

> On Aug 20, 2016, at 11:02 PM, Rajeev Chakravarthi > wrote: > > http://motherboard.vice.com/read/armageddon-comma-explained?utm_source=bbcfb > <http://motherboard.vice.com/read/armageddon-comma-explained?utm_source=bbcfb> [. . . ] > > John Sundman's rece

Re: [silk] The Deadpool List

Since 1984, with the exception of my stints as “working class hero” (truck driver, construction laborer, warehouseman, etc), I’ve worked exclusively for startups or quasi-startups. By quasi startup I mean Sun Microsystems, which during my nine years there grew to be a major worldwide corporatio

Re: [silk] Tom Athanasiou's TedX talk on the climate crisis

g 3, 2016, at 2:11 AM, Rajesh Mehar wrote: > > Hi John, > > I appreciate the synthesis of multiple ideas into one talk, but this talk > too glosses over a topic that's been bugging me recently. The idea that > shifting all our energy needs to 'renewables' is goin

[silk] Tom Athanasiou's TedX talk on the climate crisis

Tom is the author of several books on the climate crisis and social justice and is the co-founder and main person at EcoEquity, a climate-change think tank. He’s been a full-time climate-change policy person since 1995 or so. I really like the talk he gave at a San Francisco TedX event last yea

[silk] Art, ethics, and synthetic biology

Hello friends, As promised, here’s the text (only slightly edited) of my remarks at the SynbioBeta conference in Edinburgh, Scotland last week: http://johnsundman.com/2016/07/responsibilities-of-artists-hackers-entrepreneurs-scientists-at-the-dawn-of-the-biodigital-era/

Re: [silk] Early morning musings

Apropos: “One Train May Hide Another” — a poem by the late great New York poet Kenneth Koch https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/one-train-may-hide-another jrs > On Jul 7, 2016, at 2:49 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > I used t

Re: [silk] "obligations" of a novelist?

hall then look forward to continuing the conversation. Kind regards, jrs > On Jul 5, 2016, at 8:17 AM, rajeev chakravarthi > wrote: > > Hello John > > I've spent some time going through your site and the agenda you > outlined in the link to your seminar. I do have some

Re: [silk] "obligations" of a novelist?

> On Jul 3, 2016, at 11:50 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 9:20 PM, John Sundman wrote: > > I’ve been invited to give a talk at a synthetic biology symposium in >> Scotland next month. >> >> http://synbiobeta.com/advice-novelist-prepar

[silk] "obligations" of a novelist?

I’ve been invited to give a talk at a synthetic biology symposium in Scotland next month. http://synbiobeta.com/advice-novelist-prepare-biodigital-era/ I would welcome any comments. Regards, jrs P.S. despite the title of the article (not chosen by me) I have precious little advice to give.

[silk] Fwd: A Freemit summer

Freemit is a blockchain-based service for sending money overseas. https://freemit.com It was founded by John Biggs, East Coast editor of TechCrunch. Disclosure: John also happens to be a friend of mine. Per the below mail, their pilot program is targeting USA —> India money transactions

Re: [silk] Immortality Begins at Forty

> On May 9, 2016, at 11:32 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote: > > I am in my 60's and What Thaths Said :D > Me too. I didn’t finish reading it. Got about 1/3 through. I became a volunteer firefighter at age 55. I’m 63 now. In order to become fully qualified I had to take 24 classes ranging in length fro

Re: [silk] Luck Matters More Than You Might Think

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11 jrs > On Apr 21, 2016, at 1:3

[silk] Silk for Silklist

Last Thursday I gave a talk at the Silklab at Tufts University. The reason for the Lab’s existence is that silk is a remarkable substance with remarkable properties and remarkable potential that is only beginning to be explored. They are doing wacky stuff with silk at the SilkLab, everything fro

Re: [silk] Obscure novelist talks with famous biologist

Why, thank you. jrs > On Oct 25, 2015, at 9:33 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Not sure why John didn't post this here, but am remedying that. :) > > Udhay > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: John Sundman > Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 6:52 AM &

Re: [silk] Bay area meet-up?

I would be happy to join you on November 3 or 6. I would prefer to meet in San Francisco rather than Oakland/Berkley/elsewhere. I won’t be able to join you during the last week in October, alas; I’ll be home in Massachusetts. (Although as chance would have it, I’m in San Francisco as I post t

Re: [silk] Indo-Mexican fusion restaurants and recipes

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I've heard good things about Chinita [1] although I haven't eaten there > myself. Does a reasonable impression of Mexican food.

Re: [silk] Puns in other languages

One of my favorite puns ever was not in any spoken language. I’ve written already of how I lived in a Pulaar village that occasionally had Peuhl visitors, nomads coming in from the Sahara (or technically, the very northern edge of the Sahel. Sure looked like Sahara to me.) These people speak tw

Re: [silk] On the Road

> On Sep 14, 2015, at 3:42 PM, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote: > > I'm curious to know how the list feels about the junction of fiction and > history. Your thoughts? I’m working on a novella in which the 1975 Asilomar DNA conference is prominently featured. Several key scenes in the story are set th

Re: [silk] Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

I remember encountering Whorf’s ideas, and some ideas related to them, in college 1970 -74. By “related to them” I mean other ideas in the general area of cultural anthropology. Ideas of Levi-Strauss. Malinowski. Boaz, Mead, Geertz, Sahlins, etc. As a 19-20 year old I found these ideas so pr

Re: [silk] James Bonilla - Introduction

> On Sep 9, 2015, at 8:37 PM, James Bonilla wrote: > >>> If I may ask: was the other person non-white? So far as I can tell, the great majority of the people on this list are non-white, depending on how one defines that term. ( Which is kind of ironic, given the origin of the term “aryan”. I

Re: [silk] James Bonilla - Introduction

>> >> I'd encourage you to keep that in mind. Also, keep silklist discussions on >> silklist, please. >> >> Udhay​ >> > > I have seen all too often that one can never assume goodwill. I will do so > -- since you request me to do it. When I was relatively new to this list, I responded somewha

Re: [silk] This Doctor Knows Exactly How You Feel

My 27-year old daughter has bilateral trigeminal neuralgia. She was given that diagnosis tentatively by an emergency room doctor in the small hospital here on Martha’s Vineyard, who said she should go to Boston to see a specialist. This was last January. We took her to a neurology clinic. The r

Re: [silk] Food spoilage question

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Alok G. Singh wrote: > Rajesh Mehar writes: >> Gautam John likes to leave fish fry out overnight to get a nice >> souring taste in... > Works well with a nice oily fish like mackerel. Don't skimp on the oil > for frying either. The f

Re: [silk] Food spoilage question

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Opinions on whether it's OK to eat? Sterilise it and eat it? [Is this a thought/science experiment?]

[silk] What should I ask George Church?

[Apologies to those of you who’ve just seen a virtually identical email on one or more other lists. We’ve got to stop meeting like this. . . .] I’ll be spending an hour with George Church on Friday. Church is a molecular biologist/geneticist of nearly Einsteinian range and significance. For one

Re: [silk] Ebooks

ely fall into the SF/cyberpunk genre of fiction. If any listmembers have read them & have anything nice to say about them, feel free to give a shout-out. Regards, jrs Unglue.it: http://blog.unglue.it/2014/04/30/thanks-for-ungluing-launches/ Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/John-Sundman/e/B000APL

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 61, Issue 15

Every pack has a motion sensor on it. If you don’t move, it starts to make an irritating sound. If you don’t then move, the sound gets louder. If you don’t then move it gets really really loud. This is so that if a firefighter goes down, you can find them by listening. https://www.youtube.co

Re: [silk] An age old problem

> On Dec 30, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Dave Long wrote: > > > * I haven't been in the salle in ages, but in our fencing club we have an > octogenarian beginner. Legwise, he has no mobility, but he's still pretty > sharp with the hand -- and more importantly, he has an analytic mind, and > hence fixe

Re: [silk] The least random number

On Dec 12, 2014, at 5:36 AM, Keith Adam wrote: >> >> So when did you join silklist, and how did you hear about it? >> >> Udhay >> > > Udhay's post has made me think about what silklist has meant to me. I was > not invited, I did not know anyone 'in real life' and I had no noteworthy > achi

Re: [silk] The least random number

I believe that I first heard of Silklist when reading Christopher Kelty's book "Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software". Some short time after that I joined the list, although I don't recall how that happened. Most likely it would have been in the sumer or fall of 2009. By the w

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2014

he Europeans in North America at Jamestown, and the story of John Smith & Pocahantas, since sometime in late August. I like it, but it's work. I read Tony Horwitz's Midnight Rising, a history of John Brown and the raid at Harper's Ferry that sparked the U.S. Civil war.

Re: [silk] What book changed your mind?

I was happy to see The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind on the list in the Chronicle (although it's more than 30 years old. Closer to 40, I think.) I remember reading it shortly after it came out, and while some of its conclusions seemed a bit of a stretch, it was

Re: [silk] Books and libraries

For whatever it's worth (and it's not much) I named the protagonist of my 1st novel (Acts of the Apostles) "Nick Aubrey" because I was deeply immersed in reading the Patrick O'Brien Aubrey/Maturin novels at the time I was writing my book and "Nick Aubrey" is as close as I could get to O'Brien's

Re: [silk] The Real Existential Threat

Bette. jrs On Oct 14, 2014, at 8:27 PM, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote: > > It's like Betty Davis said, "We're in for a bumpy ride!" I just don't want us > to fall off. > > / Bruce / >

Re: [silk] moving past the religious straw man

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: > So I set about making my peace with the concept of God. The first thing that > helped was remembering that the gods were created by human beings to serve > deep human needs. God is not a concrete entity sitting somewhere up in the > sky. Go

Re: [silk] USA West Coast restaurant recommendations

Thread drift: in spring 2003 I applied for a position at a start-up called Laszlo Systems. Their main HQ was in San Francisco, where about 25 people worked, but there was a group of 5 or so people working out of a satellite office in Boston. I did well enough on the Boston interview that they

Re: [silk] Fiddler on the Roof, a broadway style musical - Bangalore, Sept 28 2014

and her HOD, Dr. Arvind (Doctor / Professional Theatre actor) is in the play. :-) johnson On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 8:00 AM, SS wrote: > Yo! What's up doc! > > shiv > > On Sun, 2014-09-21 at 15:20 +0530, John Marshall Johnson wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > > &g

[silk] Fiddler on the Roof, a broadway style musical - Bangalore, Sept 28 2014

Dear Friends, "Fiddler on the Roof" a broadway style musical, by Bangalore's premier theatre group is being staged at Venue: St. John's Auditorium, Koramangala Date: Sunday, the 28th of September (6.30 pm) This musical play sponsored by the British High Commission was successfully staged las

Re: [silk] Anthropology and Sociology

Speaking of literary criticism (and of criticism of crticism, and of criticism of criticism of criticism), I recently came up on my copy of Northrop Frye's *Anatomy of Criticism*, which I read in college (and marked up in pencil in the margins). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318116.Anatom

Re: [silk] Anthropology and Sociology

My undergraduate degree was in anthropology; what intrigued me about that discipline was precisely the kind of questions that shiv has been asking in this thread. (Disclaimer: It has been a long time since I was in college, so my memory is not entirely to be trusted. Take what follows with what

Re: [silk] Child sex abuse and child rights

[Apologies for top posting. I think that horse has left the barn, as we say here in Amurka.] Insofar as "the system" apparently led to allowing the systematic torture and rape of nearly one and a half thousand children over a period of decades, in a supposedly civilized nation (UK), I hope that

Re: [silk] Slacktivism

Wow. jrs On Aug 29, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 5:54 PM, John Sundman wrote: > >> It really does seem to me that ALS will be curable soon. Scientists are >> making really exciting progress on many fronts. > >

Re: [silk] Slacktivism

Yes, of course. And I didn't mean to imply that anybody who gets Type 2 diabetes or heart disease deserves it because they made the wrong choices. I just meant that the nature of the research to be done was different because the biological mechanisms were better understood. jrs On Aug 27, 20

Re: [silk] Slacktivism

I haven't read the article, but 2 quick observations: 1) ALS charities don't only do research. They also provide other resources for people and families affected by the disease. 2) Project ALS is a well-audited research-only charity. More than 90% of its budget goes to research. jrs On Aug

Re: [silk] Slacktivism

Comment below. Regards, jrs On Aug 26, 2014, at 11:25 PM, Dibyo wrote: > ​I found this - > http://www.vox.com/2014/8/20/6040435/als-ice-bucket-challenge-and-why-we-give-to-charity-donate > - which looks at some stats on deaths vs. money raised. > > It's interesting that Diabetes and Chronic Pul

Re: [silk] Why email newsletters won't die ...

Just looked at that briefly. Saw that Rusty Foster has a popular email newsletter. I had no idea. That guy has been a friend of mine for nearly 15 years. Sheesh, I'm the last guy in the world to learn anything. jrs On Aug 24, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Vinit Bhansali wrote: > [Quote] > "but really

Re: [silk] Slacktivism

Shiv, No apology necessary. Nothing you said was in any way unkind or inappropriate. Many of us who have been personally affected by ALS are happy that it's been getting so much attention merely due to the ice bucket challenge. It is, as you say, only one among any number of relatively unknown

Re: [silk] Slacktivism

Project ALS is at the forefront of much research in understanding the basic science of the disease (or perhaps diseases) ALS. When the right wing religious nut-jobs in the USA denied funding from federal dollars to research projects that used fetal stem cells (at the time the best research vec

Re: [silk] Slacktivism

happened, for whatever reason, to be interested in ALS. The virality of the challenge has nothing to do with ALS & everything to do with how much people enjoy watching other people get buckets of ice water poured on their heads. jrs On Aug 21, 2014, at 11:44 PM, SS wrote: > On Thu,

Re: [silk] Slacktivism

Surely humankind is capable of addressing more than one problem at a time? jrs On Aug 21, 2014, at 1:07 PM, SS wrote: > On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 21:20 +0530, Kingsley Jegan Joseph wrote: >> donations to the ALS Association > > Why ALS? > > Not saying that its not a good cause but it's not the fi

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading

I've been hacking my way through William T. Vollman's "Argall". It's not an easy read, but I'm enjoying it very much. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300738.Argall Last year I read most of the novels of Flann O'Brian. I recommend them highly, especially At Swim Two Birds. https://www.good

Re: [silk] The Arranged Marriage That Ended Happily Ever After, 30 Years Later

Like Heather, I too have been watching this thread with fascination. I certainly can understand & "identify with" the feelings about her marriage partner that she has elucidated. I've been married to Dear Wife for nearly 34 years. My first, her second marriage. She had no children in her first

Re: [silk] The Arranged Marriage That Ended Happily Ever After, 30 Years Later

Something I was reading: http://thephilosophersmail.com/relationships/how-we-end-up-marrying-the-wrong-people/

Re: [silk] The Arranged Marriage That Ended Happily Ever After, 30 Years Later

On Jul 4, 2014, at 3:03 AM, Amit Varma wrote: > AFTER AN ABSENCE > by Linda Pastan Wow. Thanks for posting this. jrs

[silk] Bilingualism benefits aging brain

http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/neuroscience/science-bilingualism-aging-brain-01969.html Individuals who speak two or more languages, even those who acquired the second language in adulthood, may slow down cognitive decline from aging, according to new research published in the Annals of N

Re: [silk] On Creative Commons, "open culture" & the working writer

On Jun 3, 2014, at 3:51 AM, Gautam John wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:57 AM, John Sundman wrote: > >> This post is superficially about me & my books, but its real subject is >> Creative Commons, remix culture, and writing for money. > > Thanks for these

Re: [silk] On Creative Commons, "open culture" & the working writer

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:57 AM, John Sundman wrote: > This post is superficially about me & my books, but its real subject is > Creative Commons, remix culture, and writing for money. Thanks for these links, John. Makes for very interesting reading. I used to work with a child

Re: [silk] On Creative Commons, "open culture" & the working writer

Link to Hellman's essay: http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-future-of-book-is-unfinished-john.html On Jun 2, 2014, at 4:27 PM, John Sundman wrote: > > > Eric Hellman: > The Future of the Book is Unfinished: John Sundman's "Biodigital >

[silk] On Creative Commons, "open culture" & the working writer

folk? If you have any interest in the subject of writers trying to earn a $$ from their work in the digital age, you might find interesting either or both of these posts about my remix experiment. Eric Hellman: The Future of the Book is Unfinished: John Sundman's "Biodigital Alan Wex

Re: [silk] What You Learn in Your 40s

Amen. On May 21, 2014, at 3:28 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > Do not tolerate boredom, cure it. It is a craving like any addiction. > Don't strengthen it with distraction and activity. Cure it with > mindful abiding.

Re: [silk] What You Learn in Your 40s

I don't disagree with any of the following, but add the caveat that religious institutions are susceptible to become breeding grounds for cant, magical thinking, groupthink, intolerance. I don't accuse all religious institutions of these flaws. However the danger is always present where confo

Re: [silk] What You Learn in Your 40s

I'm 61 years old, so my 40's were long enough ago that I confuse them sometimes with my youth and sometimes with with my emerging adulthood. But I have learned a few things over the last 21 years, I think, so I'll append a few observations. I mostly, but not entirely, agree with the NYT starter

Re: [silk] Fwd: Question from the Washington Post

Heather, Comments within. jrs On May 13, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: > I wonder how many truly poor people ever emigrated to the Americas. Aside > from those who were imported to penal colonies (not a long-lived phenomenon) > or imported as slaves, people had to pay their passage

Re: [silk] Fwd: Question from the Washington Post

My paternal grandfather arrived penniless on Elis Island. My paternal grandmother arrived penniless on Ellis Island. They met as servants in the household of a wealthy capitalist. My mother didn't come to the USA though Ellis Island, and she wasn't penniless, but she certainly wasn't rich whe

[silk] Pop says farewell (Re: Your take on this?)

ot;I don't think he is." Two weeks later I received a letter from my father informing me of Pop's death. It was at the day and hour that the mechanic in Senegal fixed the car with the clogged fuel line. jrs On Apr 6, 2014, at 5:03 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk wrote: > On Apr

Re: [silk] Your take on this?

My paternal grandfather, "Pop" had an NDE in 1972, which he told me about in terms entirely consistent with those in the article. The context was that he was in the hospital after a heart attack, and he had another heart attack and was revived. I was about 20 when this happened. (I won't try t

Re: [silk] Living Well to the Age of 150 and Beyond

John Tyler, 10th President of the USA (in 1841), has two living grandchildren: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/former-president-john-tyler-1790-1862-grandchildren-still-191230189.html jrs On Mar 12, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Dave Long wrote: >> If it doesn't, then the social implicat

Re: [silk] Living Well to the Age of 150 and Beyond

One of the many fascinating aspects of Bruce Sterling's "Schismatrix (plus)" world is the depiction of entities that live for hundreds of years. Some of them start out as people and remain essentially people, other people morph over time in to other kinds of things. They maintain an identity ov

Re: [silk] Energy: 100% of global power from solar using 1% of total land surface

But is the sun shining on wind-power companies? jrs On Jan 15, 2014, at 8:52 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Solar companies have had the wind at their backs lately.

Re: [silk] have your reading habits changed?

I'm on the pretty luddite end of the scale on this topic. I don't have an ebook reading device. I agree with a lot of what SS and other quasi-luddites have said. On the other hand, I sell books books I've written (novel, novellas), and they're basically all ebooks. Selling paper books is just

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