tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123868122011-06-08T02:34:06.557-04:00A virtual bulletin board designed to allow the hearts and minds of 'persona chaotica' to opine on current events using the principles of nonlinear dynamicsDr. Marknoreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1132952393537867222005-11-25T15:51:00.000-05:002005-11-25T15:59:53.536-05:00

Unable to deal with one more weak posting about Darwin or snippy offense-taking at nothing, I've stopped posting to the list where all met, and I resigned as PR Officer a month or two ago. I'll be trotting out my opinions here, I reckon. It's just not worth it to spend my mental energy with really crabby, self-important people. So! Someone asked me about randomness the other day, and I

Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278995479245100182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1132315370874958812005-11-18T07:01:00.000-05:002005-11-18T07:03:19.536-05:00

The dry humoured thought occurred to me yesterday "it's obvious when you know - though it's not obvious why you didn't know in the first place". Now is that a paradox or a conundrum? I guess it's obvious when you know..And following on from that, why is it that as someone once said to me "you have to make your own luck" when so-called 'bad luck' makes itself thanks to sod's law?! - which

Stuart Glendinning Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15905583268964848588noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1129219452726521962005-10-13T12:01:00.000-04:002005-10-13T12:04:12.733-04:00

Just back onto posting to Chaos Nation - thanks; don't have a heck of a lot to say accept that it is possible to integrate chaos/complexity into personal activity, but this may make one appear a little strange. Dry humour ey, can't beat it! But seriously folks it's a theme I'm really interested in exploring/exploiting if only so I can get the job I want right now, for example.

Stuart Glendinning Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15905583268964848588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1121731957886097932005-07-18T20:01:00.000-04:002005-07-18T20:12:37.890-04:00

So I've spent the last few days on the phone with lots of local media outlets trying to get them to take a look at our press kit and possibly cover the conference (don't worry, I warmed 'em up with a flyer mailing a while back). The best thing I could come up with to get people to take a look, or take a listen to my pitch was: "This is not your father's scientific conference." We'll see how it

Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278995479245100182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1119552326628498932005-06-23T14:40:00.000-04:002005-06-23T14:45:26.636-04:00

It's almost done. Just about everything that's going to go in it for now is together. I plan to start copying it and subsequently distributing it over the weekend and into next week. In the meantime, I'm trying to be cute (but not too cute!) with some of the components. For example, typically, organizational press kits contain stuff like FAQ sheets and testimonials, sometimes tip sheets/fun

Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278995479245100182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1119373555187550662005-06-21T06:28:00.000-04:002005-06-23T09:04:18.676-04:00

In response to Keith Warren on the CHAOPSYC list server, I wanted to take a beat here to address his question to me and clarify some aspects of intelligent design that get lost in the theater of Darwinism vs. Creationism.Keith says: The goal in science is to demonstrate a natural mechanism that will explain a given phenomenon. Positing a supernatural mechanism is just a punt. So, again, what's

Dr. Marknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1117550072293545372005-05-31T10:07:00.000-04:002005-05-31T10:36:47.090-04:00

Yesterday was an off day. Yet, for some reason, everything got done that had to get done. The perpetual list of lingering projects, preparations for the summer, and the George Foreman BBQ (btw, Bubba Burgers, yum) were all traversed. The the often underrated emotional tonifying benefits of 'sacking out' were enjoyed.So, in the end, what's so unexceptable about inertia? I think it's a valuable

Dr. Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1116688611641014572005-05-21T11:12:00.000-04:002005-05-21T11:16:51.646-04:00

So since my recent experience of having greatness thrust upon me (i.e., becoming the PR Officer of the Society), I've been collecting items for a press kit. So far, I have lots and lots of substance. I could use some more flash and glitter, though, some more pictures and graphics. Got anything great we could use? Got ideas for me? Then you should email me at the groovy new email address:

Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278995479245100182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1116511413813093402005-05-19T09:00:00.000-04:002005-05-31T10:54:12.686-04:00

In the never-ending effort to ensure the meme of chaos remains forever linked with disorder, randomness and in this case, schlock narcissism, Britney Spears and her new husband, Kevin Federline named their six-part 'reality show' - Britney & Kevin: Chaotic. Hyping the show as raw, and as one review offers makes Nick and Jessica look like Fulbright scholars. It made me wonder how all ill-formed

Dr. Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1115945933175282112005-05-12T17:56:00.000-04:002005-05-12T21:17:32.193-04:00

Did you ever get the feeling you were late to the paradigm? It's so strange these days to keep reading how the 'cutting edge' keeps moving faster than those supposedly in it?Seth Godin, author and overall nudge (in a good way!) drew a map for us recently...http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/05/the_new_digital.htmlInside the world of Chaos Nation, none of this surprises us. We have this

Dr. Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1115393555949239472005-05-06T11:24:00.000-04:002005-05-06T11:32:35.953-04:00

I'll tell you what really frosts me: when I say I do nonlinear dynamical modeling, and then tell the blank fish eyes confronting me that I do chaos theory, and they say, oh, I know all about that..., and just as I start to get excited about having found some sort of kindred spirit, they finish off with, ...from my desk. Makes me want to hand out the Gleick book like Gideons hand out bibles.

Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278995479245100182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1115013019132266342005-05-02T01:29:00.000-04:002005-05-02T02:03:21.190-04:00

Rather than take the slow and engaging route, and in the interest of getting to the point, which is to elicit the feedback of people inside and outside of the SCTPLS, I've posted 5 more feedback questions to ponder for May. Please comment as often as you'd like and then comment on the comments of others. I'll monitor as needed.1) How can chaos theory factor in artistic and philosophical

Dr. Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1114573151330286322005-04-26T23:34:00.000-04:002005-04-27T00:09:01.546-04:00

I took a look at the list of the summer movies, a season which really runs from May to August, and it seems we're in for a rash of those 'dirty chaos' flicks that pit order vs. disorder and guess who gets to play the heavy? :(Here's a list of the key offenders...Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/War of the Worlds - http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/Star Wars -

Dr. Marknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12386812.post-1114296105630265982005-04-24T04:15:00.000-04:002005-04-25T03:23:35.976-04:00

Project Denver is underway...over the next 100 days or so I'd like to invite your well-thought contribution to this blog as we prepare for the 15th Annual Conference for the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences, August 4th - 6th at Denver University.Once a week, I'll post a topic/issue/current event and some typical news links that followed it. What I'd like to get back from

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