[FRIAM] NYTimes.com: The Problems in Modeling Nature, With Its Unruly Nat...

[Mikhail Gorelkin]

> All human beings have this burden in life to constantly figure out what's 
> true

The better way to figure it out is to read The Times, The Economist,
Le Monde diplomatique (in English http://mondediplo.com), and
a couple of Russian newspapers :-)

--Mikhail

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pamela McCorduck" <pamela at well.com>
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <friam at redfish.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] NYTimes.com: The Problems in Modeling Nature,With Its 
Unruly Nat...


> As a longtime subscriber to both the Times and the Economist, I can
> tell you that the Economist certainly has a point of view; you detect
> it, you smile and move on.  Their writing is sprightlier than that of
> the Times (though the Times is trying harder these days), but hardly
> "all the facts."
>
>
> "All human beings have this burden in life to constantly figure out
> what's true, what's authentic, what's meaningful, what's dross, what's
> a hallucination, what's a figment, what's madness.  We all need to
> figure out what is valuable, constantly.  As a writer, all I am doing
> is posing the question in a way that people can see very clearly."
>
> Maxine Hong Kingston
>
>
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