Ryan, Don't know if you already persued my new volume of quotations (or if you plan to . . .); but I made a post-publication addendum that I thought would...
While my computer was dead and being fixed by IBM I had a lot of time to read. One of the books I heartily recommend is V. S. Naipaul's _Beyond Belief_, a kind...
Still thinking about what kind of world I want, in response to Scott, and still thinking about the objective/subjective problems brought up by Greg Donald...
Another quick post on a running thread: way back we were discussing options for immortality, or at least throwing a handful more healthy years into a life....
... I finally got around to reading that article which is amazing because I have so much time you'd think I would jump at the chance to view a good condenced...
Anybody read this? I just finished it, one of the best books I have read in a while. Thought provoking. Just surfing around looking for comments. I prefer...
The following is from http://eugenics.home.att.net/ "Humans are very much like our primate ancestors. Unfortunately, with our larger intelligent brains, we...
... "Bollocksing Up Productivity Since 1992!" That's our motto here. Sorry I've been quiet. I've been traipsing around this "East Coast," as you call it....
... Man, I was down to like 24 (I'm 31) in the running total--there's something to be said for being a high-earning, non-smoking, vegan, exercise fanatic, I...
OF THE SAME MIND A Play in 1 Act Players: Mr. Fuches, half-Jew and Cap-Q Member Molly McSayers, Irish-Catholic Aunt of Mr. F. Scene 1: U.S. Holocaust Museum ...
This article by David Brin (a physicist and a science fiction novelist and, apparently, an essayist) http://www.kithrup.com/brin/disputationarticle1.html has...
This is somewhat off topic, but I thought folks on this list might enjoy it -- the site http://spacealien.org/ is Brian Schinazi's travel journal. He used to...
Happy 2002, folks. Remember, this is last palindromic year we're going to get for 110 years--so make the most of it! I just finished Ridley's _Genome_. It was...
... That guy wants to get rid of cats! From Chapter 1: "It is not, needless to say, the fault of cats that they are prone to torturing mice; but then, given...
... Personally, I'm waiting for the year 2332. That's the year when all the really interesting stuff will happen. ... Nearly every day I'm hit with the...
Robert Wright--the spiritual patriarch of this discussion group ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cap-Q/ )--has an interesting piece in today's Times: ...
... On the upside, we've now wired virtually everything that's ever been learnt into one sprawling, distributed archive. Welcome to the shared human brain:...
Below is a URL, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/01/020121091000.htm which mentions brain research on perception and the physical storage there of....
... It depends on the subject and how specialized the information you need. Some of the really big news and research outlets are free. Most require a...
... Funny that I was thinking the exact same thing a few days ago. I've been playing with video lately, improting it into the computer where I manipulate it...
For those of you with television (go to your local sports bar, Michael, and tune this in on the big screen), PBS has some interesting fare tonight: The Secret...
This article, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/22/science/social/22CHEA.html reinforces much of what we've already discussed and as such isn't terribly...
... Damn; makes our merry band of pranksters look uninspired, unambitious --and ill-informed. But, I know what I'll be reading for the next few days; and...
Time for another edition of that relatively infrequent, but still quite regular, phenomenon--the Scott/Fuchs LoveFest! ... <snip> That's a good point. A lot of...
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