Sunday afternoon penguin blogging
More frequent posting soon, I promise. In the meantime, more penguins, probably just looking for someplace that’s cool – click here for a photo essay of penguins from Seaworld going through aiport security, thanks to Majikthise – another penguin obsessed, Douglas Adams inspired blog that will get added to the Post-Normal Times blogroll as soon as I add a blogroll to this site. Not to be outdone, here are some more penguins, Washington Post in hand, entering the metro station near the Spring that was once upon a time Silver.
Fools in charge?
Asked about the provenance of the term “flip-flop” – in reference to phase shifts in complex systems, Henry Regier, author of a paper about this with James Kay, sent me a note in which he muses that it may just be a modern term given to that which our ancestors attributed to the workings of a trickster deity to whom we might dedicate April 1st – which it was at the time. Since it was too late in the day for an April fools day post, I am instead dedicating the entire rest of the month to the Fools who think they are in charge of anything (i.e., control freaks), and to “the mischievous Greek God Pan.” First, a little bit of background that you can probably skip over if you are an ecologist:
A few announcements
If you read the previous post prior to 10 am EST/US, and found it worthwhile, you might want to check it again. After a good night’s sleep, I couldn’t resist adding another quote about what was actually learned from one of Oriana Fallaci’s unabashedly biased interviews with history.
Second, if you are interested in “Procedures and Toolkits for Integrated and Participatory Analysis of Sustainability”, Mario Giampietro is organizing a summer school session that will take place July 17-23, in Sangonara del Verde (near Murcia, Spain). For more information and for an application, please visit liphe4.
