[FRIAM] Complexity, Ottawa and Nanotechnology (was Re: Struck me as funny)

[Stephen Guerin]

Merle,

I'm no expert but here are some writings

I trust Philip Ball as a science writer that distills well and doesn't add
mushy fluff:
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/8/6/nwaa266/6009035

There's some debate on using the framework of Complexity as an appropriate
lens for nanotechnology (I only where one pair of sunglasses)
referencing Laughlins "A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the
Bottom Down"
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/046503828X

reviews:
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.2138425
http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=104

As an aside, we're working with wildfire folks in:

Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Services (AFFES)
Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry
Government of Ontario

Your Dean at U of Ottawa may be interested in how we're applying complexity
in his province.
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 11:29 AM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Merle needs a bit of help.  I'm teaching a short online course this week
> for the U. of Ottawa, and one of the guys in my course is the Dean of the
> School of Engineering. (Why, I can't imagine.)  Anyway, his research field
> is nanotechnology.  Is it here?  Where has it been applied?  Is it an
> incredibly generative technology that will change our near-term future?
> HELP, and thanks.
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:36 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Sunday morning said the Big Apple
>> is planning to dispatch mental health professionals
>> <https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/590963-nyc-mayor-says-he-will-reinstitute-a-modified-plainclothes-anti>
>> to its subway system as a way to prevent crime. He said the city is going
>> to “flood our system with mental health professionals and law enforcement
>> working as a team to move out the disorder that's clearly in the subway
>> system in our city.”
>>
>> A couch by every turnstyle?
>>
>>
>>
>> A new collective?  A murder of crows; a flood of psychiatrists?
>>
>>
>>
>> Rumor has it that Biden is considering sending mental health
>> professionals to the Ukrainian border.
>>
>>
>>
>> Needless to say, I have volunteered.
>>
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>>
>> Nick Thompson
>>
>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>>
>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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