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Evolution and Wisdom of Crowds

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:31:30 -0700

Rob Brown: Evolution and Wisdom of Crowds

2007
Rob Brown

Massive Darwinian rejection also stems from evolution's counterintuitive nature. Comparing it with three widsom of crowd systems (Wikipedia, etc.), three models unlikely in theory achieve a good outcome, through the equalizing force of selection.

http://www.ralfbrunner.com/ralfbrunner_website/pages/aids1.html

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:10:30 -0700

To document the dying, one must weigh illuminating sickness against protecting sensitivities. Ralf Brunner strikingly captures AIDS's tightening clutch on a heroin addict, until his blood can barely circulate, much less circulate heroin in it.

Photograph by Ralf Brunner, From the Series 'Leden und Streben - AIDS', Retrieved from http://www.ralfbrunner.com/

The School - C.J. Chivers - Investigation of 2004 Shooting at Russian School - Esquire

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:21:42 -0700

Esquire: The School

March 14th 2007
C.J. Chivers

In a striking narrative of the Beslan hostage crisis, C.J. Chivers meticulously profiles the players, both terrorist and the terrorized, constrasting those before the barrel and behind it. The bloodshed illustrated vividly, our hearts bleed unsparingly.

The Secrets of Intangible Wealth: For once the World Bank says something smart about the real causes of prosperity - Reason Magazine

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:13:52 -0700

Reason Magazine: The Secrets of Intangible Wealth

October 5th 2007
Ronald Bailey

Natural resources, produced capital and intangible capital (education, etc.) contribute to national prosperity. Resource availability and foreign aid does not strengthen a national economy unless conditions exist to foster development such as rule of law.

The advantages of amnesia - The Boston Globe

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:22:21 -0700

The Boston Globe: The Advantages of Amnesia

September 23rd 2007
Jessica Winter

Digitized data nearly irremovable, their preservation enables a worrisome permanency that negates an inbuilt cognitive feature: forgetting. Online footprints engraving the sand underfoot, the temporal perspective is undermined, society tied to all past actions.

http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk-orourke4mar04,0,253175.htmlstory?coll=cl-bookreview

Mon, 14 May 2007 14:01:28 -0700

Los Angeles Times: He Only Made It Look Easy

March 2007
Meghan O'Rourke

"Featuring some 800 pages of musings, drafts, detritus, epigrams and ruminations, "The Notebooks of Robert Frost" underscores how entwined the two Frosts [the wholesome sage and the recalcitrant skeptic] truly were." It's fascinating to tour the studio where originates an artist's compositions, the instruments they utilize, the atmospheric constitution of their habitat and though every word Robert Frost is not stimulus for me to salivate, a heavyweight participant in poetry still begs investigation. Visiting Frost's subconscious, to see how a formulation occurs rather than the outcome of formulation exhales new life into his words just as the historical personality of a building promote stronger partiality. Applicable is the statement, as much inspired as I am by the velocity of that vehicle, it is belittled by my curiosity to see its engine.

Piña - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sat, 12 May 2007 12:11:45 -0700

Commentary from observation, rapid formulation. Commentary through introspection, vapid articulation? Therapeutic, for some, the translation of innermost thoughts into text, the rearrangement of alphabet soup into a sensible structure. For me, it is literally like stitching together vicu�a wool and pi�a textiles, the consequential patchwork Fauvist in color application. But I'll try, because my heart has kilograms to liberate and Stumbleupon/Tumblr, curse your easy accessibility, for being my dumping site.

I am a woman of unnumbered sensitivities, where my mind receives through unfavorable disfiguration and my heart is an unfavorable disfiguration. I swallow sentiments as the saltwater separates from shore, where it retires, returns, retires, returns, a rhythmic incoming, outgoing. At times, a hypotonic affair discharges gallons so excess, the consequential salinity palpably materializes in tears and visibly manifests in inexplicable actions. Once, I was of the strategy, if one disengages from undesirable variables, they would be not accessible to the undesirable implications but distance from dynamites doesn't downgrade the detonation, only deactivating it can. So venomous was my apprehensive vigilance but ultimate inaction and now too perspiring too is mindful exploration.

Angela Fraleigh

Wed, 09 May 2007 18:07:45 -0700

From time to time, the colors of a composition overstep its pictorial limitations and trickles into textual territory by artistic pronouncement whereupon I promptly exploit the opportunity to vandalize poignancy by my preschool paintbrush, digestive reminiscent fluid sliding off the bristles. The chaotic congregations of oil that encircle the central illustration waltz circularly as if it were cushion for a gemstone, complimentary addition without detrimental detraction, its disorderly application duplicating electric emotionality in every splatter, every swirl.

Bill Viola - Selected Works - James Cohan Gallery

Mon, 07 May 2007 13:51:08 -0700

Vigorous was my transportation of text from previous landfill to new landfill but respiratory retirement and floundering fingertips compelled a nomination of the alternative, progressive release of past content. I (or my OCD) mostly decided to infiltrate another system by its CSS simplicity. Realize my recognizable disinclination toward personal documentation? The aforementioned was probably an abnormal deviation. :)

Pictorial attractions demand either your optical organ or your cardiac organ and for the ambitious, you must dedicate both. This aquatic achievement, two mammalian fish amidst a blue personality, beckons your physical participation, momentarily overruling infeasibility and issuing the possibility liquid droplets will, in any second, waltz on your keyboard. An irrefutable utterance of freedom, though the water in actuality surpasses the rectangular dimensions of this photo, it is nevertheless a contradicting limitation.

Publisher makes lite work of the classics - Times Online

Thu, 03 May 2007 17:46:28 -0700

The Times: Publisher Makes Lite Work of the Classics

April 14th 2007
Ben Hoyle

Firestorms are commonly instigated without critical dissection but superficial inspection. "To howls of indignation from literary purists, a leading publishing house is slimming down some of the world's greatest novels." Compression of literary classics to minimize consumption, contemporary vandalism of historical masterstrokes? Or capitalistic exploitation of customer desires to maximize profitability? Before decrying lowbrow liposuction of Copperfield and Karenina among others, revisit motivation. They are not flattening mountainous terrain to deliberately dehydrate literature, but to dehydrate wallets. First, Orion Group is not a monopoly, so if you do not subscribe to their ideology, do not financially perpetuate it.

If the editors can abridge breathless language without surrendering original spirit, an abbreviation can be advantageous for the speedier swallowing of similar sentiments. Not unlike the separation of substance from superfluity, if the customer prefers a full stomach, the option is available. However, should the inclination exist for a lesser load, that dish can be ordered too. The products of Orion Group isn't bullying itself into anyone's bloodstream, you receive or reject. Unhappy a business is bulldozing a meter into a centimeter when the untouched state is accessible elsewhere? Wipe your convicting saliva on a page of David Copperfield. By that, you probably forwent the knowledge how wide a thread was through a particular garment. :)