Posts from ‘May, 2004’

At IshCon Spring 2004, Mark S. Meritt led a discussion on the most misunderstood and unaccepted ideas in the work of Daniel Quinn, and he gave a speech elaborating on Quinn’s recommendation that people pursue what they are best at as the most effective way for them to contribute to a larger shift to [...]

Hello! I wanted to let you know about my new home base on the web. Evolving from both Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between (an online magazine I’d founded, formerly Sostenuto: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences) and my family’s personal site, here’s Potluck (http://www.potluck.com).
Potluck will serve as a [...]

The year 2004. A multiple of four. That means at least three things. A leap year, the Summer Olympics, and the U.S. Presidential election.
As for leap year, though it certainly applies this year, it actually doesn’t happen every multiple of four — and it isn’t really that big a deal anyway, is it?
Once upon [...]

A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
Written by Steven Spielberg; Screen Story by Ian Watson; Based on the short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss; Directed by Steven Spielberg

The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides & John Tooby, Editors

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Bk Currents)
John de Graaf, David Wann & Thomas H. Naylor

After Dachau
Daniel Quinn

American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Russell Thornton

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
Gerald M. Weinberg

Animal Farm (Signet Classics)
George Orwell