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Michael Dettelbach
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Poor kid. Speedy recovery.
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Historian of science and technology, thinks "artificial intelligence" is both an oxymoron and a pleonasm, possibly a panpsychist. Very occasionally posts longer mind-leavings on dettelblog.wordpress.com/.
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Michael Dettelbach
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Poor kid. Speedy recovery.
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Michael Dettelbach
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The one advantage of the usage of the german s in 18th c. latin printed matter is that if you are text-searching for any inflection of a root that ends in a single s, you can find every inflection just by changing the s to an f.
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Michael Dettelbach
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THAT is an amazing photo.
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Michael Dettelbach
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Wait, what is he? A clam? A lamprey?
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Michael Dettelbach
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I watched this jumping spider ambush this mosquito yesterday in my study. Go spider! This morning, spider is repeatedly, stealthily approaching the dead mosquito, and pouncing on it. Like a cat. I think it is playing.
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Michael Dettelbach
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Oooh, indeed! There goes my afternoon.
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Michael Dettelbach
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For an early nineteenth century statement on the strange and confusing anatomy of grasses: hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c04...
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Michael Dettelbach
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Classifying grasses…a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. I kept asking questions. Finally, I was getting some anthers.
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Michael Dettelbach
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Also, in its recursiveness and with its concluding reflection on its difference from Hollywood righteous (often courtroom) revelation stories, this narrative questions rather than reinforces the platonic idea that science corresponds to something “out there.”
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This reads like an introduction to the history and philosophy of science. What does it mean to know? When do you know you know? What is the relationship between measurement/ observation and knowledge? Between data and explanation/ understanding? Asking and answering?
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What kind of contracts are these? Article doesn’t say. Are these TT positions? How is tenure granted outside the department structure?
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Pickled onion there? A+
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Some lovely wool sower gall wasps from today’s walk.
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Michael Dettelbach
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Oooh, running a restaurant chain like a hospital system... commonwealthbeacon.org/health-care/...
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Don’t usually find chickens in the spring, but these made a good supper last night, fried.
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Michael Dettelbach
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What edible mushroom grows too high up? Oysters? Chaga?
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Michael Dettelbach
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Was thinking Violet Beauregarde...perhaps he needs to be juiced.
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Michael Dettelbach
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Oooh, looking forward to this. Always disliked the specialization narrative, and its attendant, the information/ data overload narrative.
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A great text. Quotes the too-infrequently quoted William James' letter to H. G. Wells (on the occasion of Maxim Gorky's visit to the US) decrying "the worship of the bitch-goddess, Success.”
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They’ve lost that lovin’ feeling. Magic is gone. www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/03/univ...
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Surely pronounced with a good Minnesotan O like "hope" and "gope," so maybe he was just trying to cope and not coup.
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Michael Dettelbach
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Sublime pairing on this morning’s playlist: Emmanuel Music recording of Schuetz’ Psalm 116 (Das ist mir lieb, dass der Herr meine Stimme hoeret) with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings “Answer Me, Sweet Jesus”. Communication theory in two songs.
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This is what a college education is for. To laugh and cry at the canon.
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OMG that is wonderful. Immediate send to the kids. Spinoza long...
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Michael Dettelbach
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Enjoyed this. Wish we would start putting “AI” in quotes. “AI”: simultaneously an oxymoron and a pleonasm. Soul and art, mind and machine forever entwined.
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Madeleine Kahn (reprising Lili von Stupp), Telly Savalas, and Carole Kane in 30 seconds. Made my morning.
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Michael Dettelbach
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It's everywhere, even at the liberalest of the liberal arts colleges. It's in the water. I was involved in getting Smith's new engineering program started. Someday, somewhere, science and engineering will be taught AS humanities, and v.v., not as hard and soft knowledge.
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Hope it will be available soon on the website! I would get up at 4 for the broadcast, but...
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Michael Dettelbach
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Like 1979-82 all over again. I remember doing a project as a high school senior on the Institute for Creation Research...it's what got me into the history of science and how we know what we know...
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Can you say more? Few students signing up? I remember early 2000s when profs at Smith began having to market their offerings during registration periods -- flyers, posters, swag...
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Michael Dettelbach
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HymenOpter: movie about slender-thoraxed genius who unleashes a terrible and devastating new sting then feels bad when the new technology proliferates from hive to hive. Sorry you had to read that.
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Michael Dettelbach
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But not a beaver. Chipmunk. Alvin. Theodore. Simon. Dale. Chip.
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Michael Dettelbach
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I’ve just read the synopsis of IQ. Sounds hilarious but not sure that helps focus the topic. Theory of Everything? Would Dr Xavier (X Men) count? Good Will Hunting?
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Michael Dettelbach
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“Hollywood Cosplays Intelligence”: there’s an HSS panel there. What other movies? Beautiful Mind.
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Michael Dettelbach
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Amazing
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Michael Dettelbach
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Wise.
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Michael Dettelbach
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Alisa, will this be a Boston Colloquium volume? Looks fantastic.
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Michael Dettelbach
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Whole new meaning to “manning the guns.”
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Do you mean books.google.com/books?id=Wfq....
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What is the goal of the collaboration? What is supposed to come out of it? I think the sciences have to learn to think of themselves as humanities and v.v. As researchers, we all have ways, more or less legitimate, for making matter speak, more or less convincingly. Short of that...?
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Terrific. Remember always to add isinglass gently at the bunghole. p.97.
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Michael Dettelbach
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This one ranks up there with “hashtagScienceIsReal” for self- contradiction.
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Michael Dettelbach
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So who gets really jazzed when the google books copy of their mid19th century source includes the original paper covers? Confess.
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Michael Dettelbach
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Now imagine them, not even in the text, but in an endnote, in the citation that is supposed to buttress the claim in the text.
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That’s a winner, Alisa.
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Michael Dettelbach
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This is so exactly what Herschel finds inspiring in “the expansive retina” of Humboldt’s “mind,” eg in the laws of climate and inflection of isothermal or isodynamic lines; what gives Humboldt “ubiquity over the surface of the planet.”
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Michael Dettelbach
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Not ripples but close: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_....
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Michael Dettelbach
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But a deeper dive has produced "brobdignagian tentacle" (Richard Owen, 1843, comparing the musculature of an elephant's trunk to that of a nautilus' tentacles), which may win the day.
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Michael Dettelbach
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The explicitly thematized division of literary labor between Humboldt (the field naturalist) and Valenciennes (the cabinet naturalist) in the 2nd vol of Humboldt's Recueil d'observations de zoologie et d'anatomie comparée (1833) is something to behold. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30021383
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Favorite find so far today, writing about Humboldt and Cuvier's star student Achille Valenciennes, is an article entitled "The Odd Nautilus Organs Named After People," which is also a good name for a rock band. deepseanews.com/2016/01/the-...
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