Good News! My book is still appearing Jan 16, 2024, but now you can get 35% off using the code below! pic.twitter.com/nfDSmj5Rzz
— Chris Adami (@ChristophAdami) November 20, 2023
Category: Science
- The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
by David Lipsky (10/21 – 11/04) - Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber (11/11 – December)
Our first Zoom session covering Section 1 of Parrot is Saturday, October 21 at 8:00 am (Pacific). Email Dan Allosso (his email is in the last 15 seconds of one of the previous announcements) to get the details for joining or ping me directly with an email address.
We’re pretty laid back, especially for Saturday mornings, so grab your favorite beverage and join us to chat about the direction of the long arc of history. If you’re joining late, feel free to stop by and join in knowing that you can catch up as we continue along for the coming months.
Jacky, I know you were working through Debt not so long ago, and this may be your sort of crowd. If you’re free on Saturday mornings, it’d be great to see you and have you join us.
Why information is the unifying principle that allows us to understand the evolution of complexity in nature
At least the press is saying Jan 16, 2024 now. Tough luck for those doing their holiday shopping for me.
Happy to announce that @PrincetonUPress will be publishing “Evolution of Biological Information”. Look for it in 2022. @AlisonKalett pic.twitter.com/EkEpMyMROs
— Chris Adami (@ChristophAdami) November 12, 2021
We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over the course of several editions he wrote, edited, and updated during his lifetime. The first English edition was approximately 150,000 words and the sixth is a much larger 190,000 words. In the changes are refinements and shifts in ideas — whether increasing the weight of a statement, adding details, or even a change in the idea itself.
A trained astrophysicist, Dr Duane Hamacher is a lecturer in the Nura Gili Indigenous Centre at the University of New South Wales. After studying planets orbiting other stars for two years, his interest in the crossroads of science and culture was too great and he decided to complete a PhD in Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. He researches in how navigating the boundaries between Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science can show how these ways of understanding the natural world are beneficial to both.
I’m personally interested in reading/learning about these areas above and beyond the primary education levels which are presented here.
@AllenAndUnwin @AboriginalAstro
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cc: Ian O’Byrne, Remi Kalir
Economics and evolution are basically in the same business: Both are all about productivity selection, though one has been at it for billions of years longer than the other. Both involve “invisible hand” magic — intricate, unplanned, “self-or...
Raw capitalism mimics the logic of cancer within our body politic.
Curious to see how these tools can be communally used for collaborative note taking, knowledge creation, and discussion.
Mudstels: the new rage in car colors
One might call these new mudstel colors a tone, but instead of adding grey to the primary colors and variations thereof, it’s almost as if they’re mixing in a muddy brownish gray. They seem low value and medium chroma to me. Perhaps I should delve into some color theory to better categorize these?
In any case, I’m seeing a lot of them on the road over the past couple of years. Some seem reminiscent of the sorts of industrial colors one would have seen in public schools in the 1940s and 1950s on 20 gauge steel furnishings.