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Ernst Mayr dies, aged 100
Sysematics, his specialty, I only came across yesterday. It was as historian that Mayr got my attention. Mayr got my attention and influenced my thought, that is for sure. I made point as a grad student in science communications get some history of science under my belt...all there was avaialble was one course, on Darwin, but lo and behold, Mayr's The Evolution of Biological Thought was just newly vailable and I shelled out the bucks and bought it, and got a decent grade in a course that was way over my head. Mayr's view was like James Burke' Connections, but significantly deeper. He showed how thoughts or thnkings intermingle and grow, bounce and resonate, pointing the way toward an explanation of the dialectics of science. Today blogs kind of form a dialectic; probably informed by Burke; but also probably informed by people who know people who read Mayr. The cat , he was long time harvard hadn, liived til a hundred and was scheduled to do a lecture in Bedford Jan 25 [it snowed big time that day]!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4486887
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=66948
As Orwell Foresaw
Of interest: 'No Place to Hide' - By Robert O'Harrow Jr. - NYT's MICHIKO KAKUTANI writes: Brain waves with ''noninvasive neuro-electric sensors are just part of futuristic surveillance statethat is post-9/11 America, as described in Robert O'Harrow Jr.'s unnerving new book, ''No Place to Hide'' -- an America where citizens' The digital revolution of the 1990's exponentially amplified trends enabling retailers, marketers and financial institutions to gather and store vast amounts of information about current and potential customers. And as Mr. O'Harrow notes, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, ''reignited and reshaped a smoldering debate over the proper use of government power to peer into the lives of ordinary people.'' Orwell was right about this, Big Brother just arrived some two decades later than Orwell predicted. - NYT, Jan 25, 2005
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