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El Gentraso: July 2011
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Thursday, July 14, 2011. In this week's Science about how people outsourcie their memories to Google made me think of a piece I wrote for the FT weekend magazine some years back looking at the same idea - that mental skills fall out of use just as material technologies do. That was occasioned by the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Scottish mathematician Edward Sang. Who, working with his daughters,. In Historia Mathematica.). Logarithms turn complex multiplication into simple addition. For exam...
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El Gentraso: People Will Talk in the NY Post
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Monday, November 14, 2011. People Will Talk in the NY Post. Yesterday's New York Post has an article. Extracted/adapted from People Will Talk. In particular, I refer you to these two pdfs:. Closure and Stability: Persistent Reputation and Enduring Relations among Bankers and Analysts. And his 2005 book Brokerage and Closure. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Surprising Science of Reputation. My new book: People Will Talk: The Surprising Science of Reputation. Was published in autumn 2006. Review: T...
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El Gentraso: Eric B and Rakim explain social learning
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Monday, November 07, 2011. Eric B and Rakim explain social learning. OK, People Will Talk. Is creeping onto the shelves (and whatever the electronic equivalent. Of a shelf is) and we can begin the task of examining the book's themes through the medium of golden-age hiphop. What a fantastic record. Video hasn't aged so well, though, has it? Where to nest (many birds. And who to mate with ( guppies. If everyone copies everyone else blindly without ever looking at the raw data on which decisions are based&#...
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El Gentraso: The Mike Leigh mark-recapture experiment II
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008. The Mike Leigh mark-recapture experiment II. The discovery of Neptune. Gauss's calculations of the orbits of asteroids. The 1919 solar eclipse. That caught light bending. Science is filled with masterly predictions, triumphantly confirmed. Add a new one to the list. In Sept 2006, I wrote. In a quite poorly punctuated post, of my repeat sightings of film director Mike Leigh. If you're reading this, Mr Leigh, I'll see you in 2008. Well, we were in the NFT. I am a London-based sci...
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El Gentraso: February 2011
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011. Let's just give up and put Goldman Sachs in charge of everything. The back page of today's Guardian carries a full-page advert calling for a UK green investment bank, to invest in low carbon technology, etc. An organization called Transform UK. Says it's behind the campaign, and the ad carries the endorsement of 53 organizations of all stripes, including Microsoft, Bank of America/Merril Lynch, the RSPB, TUC, and so on. You can download it here. It can boost econominc. Looks a...
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In the beat of a heart - a book by John Whitfield
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Balanced yet provocative, witty but never flippant, clear without being simplistic, and far- but never over-reaching,. In the Beat of a Heart. Achieves the rare trick of entertaining and illuminating at the same time.". Philip Ball, author of. For centuries, scientists have dreamt of discovering an underlying unity to nature. Now, some think they have cracked it. Why does every mammal's heart beat one billion times in its life? What can you learn from painting stripes on a cow? In the Beat of a Heart is ...
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TV and film | Kanda Buwana: Wayang Kulit Puppet Theatre
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Kanda Buwana: Wayang Kulit Puppet Theatre. Solo wayang performance: A dalang in search of wayang. Traditional wayang golek cepak performances. Traditional wayang kulit performances. Contemporary and Post-Traditional Performances. Kanda Buwana has contributed shadow puppetry to television and film, including:. 1999 Shadow puppetry in. A Dutch-language television film directed by Hans Hylkema. 2006 Shadow puppetry in Howard Goodall’s. Four-part television series shown on Channel 4). Murni's Online Shop.
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Theatre | Kanda Buwana: Wayang Kulit Puppet Theatre
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Kanda Buwana: Wayang Kulit Puppet Theatre. Solo wayang performance: A dalang in search of wayang. Traditional wayang golek cepak performances. Traditional wayang kulit performances. Contemporary and Post-Traditional Performances. For information on his traditional performances of wayang kulit, here. For a solo contemporary show currently available for international touring, here. For information about a recent wayang golek cepak production and here. Indonesian Performance (Matthew Cohen's blog).
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