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Pardon my ignorance if such a section exists [can't find it]

many of us certainly read serious stuff og a non fiction and non arts kind, might we have a seection to post about if there is sufficient support for the idea?

...Ms Pires made the Nocturnes a revelation for me, five stars not in it .... i'd use more words but am shy of the opinions around here ...

...in what was an unusually good programme, Jazz on 3 featured this lady playing with William Parker and Hamid drake .... lest you missed this [late late late scheduling] it is still available for 24hrs  on iPlayer and very well worth catching

as is the interview with Bill Dixon

Donkey Machine are interesting but you can always drag the little thingy along when Eve Risser sings

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00swhc2/Jazz_on_3_Sophia_Domancich_and_Donkey_Monkey/

..Toumani Diabate at the Barbican followed by Early Ellington on Jazz Library with Harvey Cohen, author of Duke Ellington's America ... if you don't have it on while the hammock swings there is always Listen Again eh ....

Selva and others may be interested in the following:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/may/27/not-so-natural-selection/

and a stink is caused amongst the biologists:

http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.2/darwin_exchange.php


the book [which i start to read this weekend]:

http://us.macmillan.com/whatdarwingotwrong


what appeals to me in this row is that the emphasis on the organism - which is what survives and reproduces and the fianl nail in selfish gene and Pinkerish determinism ...


i will also revisit this excellent treatise:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dQ5MGDvn8eIC&dq=Adaptating+Minds+Buller&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=eZ_uS-LNOJ720wTEu_HXBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false


and for those who may not know their work, two authors who seem to me to be advancing very interesting non-determinative theories:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BLxUytGDQesC&dq=walter+j+freeman+brain&source=bl&ots=vA8UB12YV5&sig=UI2ph_FDHfI18hhmr_gC7yRoz6s&hl=en&ei=_J_uS7vBNZWy0gS6q_nXBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCoQ6AEwBA

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0fH6gnONcvsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=walter+j+freeman+societies++brains&source=bl&ots=c1xVPMYVnh&sig=bPD4hqfaIEQwUZQFDrY0XHfn0iQ&hl=en&ei=bKDuS6-lO5r20gTd9IjYBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false


and more generally than mind:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZUMrZrJ4M1EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=kauffman+investigations&source=bl&ots=C2JTacIIvr&sig=e4RKfejAPLlAVCimCX137NMP9Xw&hl=en&ei=CqLuS9X3Dpv40wTI3dHmBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

the Fodor book is about the logic and scientific adequacy of natural selection, but it references many salient issues pertinenet to the kind of self-organising models of Freeman and Kauffman; the Buller work is a classic demolition of the dogma of evopsych [and most welcome]

..i would be most interested to know of other references/ideas/critiques/theories in this general area ....

...it is an exciting race, a defining moment, the outcome is by no means apparent ...

..the polls may be missing out this time:

Voting Gordon may well be a socially embarrassing intention that is not admitted [remember when this was true for the Ts]

Surge of late registration by younger citizens and associated Gerry Manders

Large numbers of people still undecided, or not firmly committed

Possible that there will be a very high turnout

The differences between the main parties are within or close to the margin of error

Even if the polls are near enough, the outcome in terms of seats is still guesswork

Exit polling will not help much this time, the share of vote is not at all a good guide to the number of seats

Labour are steaming down the home straight - the story not being addressed in the media is their MOMENTUM


...an unmissable night eh?

Bruce Monro is an artist in Kilmington, Wiltshire. He needs 1 million (unwanted)CDs to create a landscape eco art work in June on his land but for public viewing.

Unwanted CDs can be posted to:
Bruce Munro Ltd
Long Knoll Barns
Cokers Lane,Kilmington,
BA12 7HU, UK

Bruce Munro invites you to send them to his studio, to be used for his next project. He needs 1 million CDs to make his new installation, 'CD Sea'

A glittering 'inland sea' illuminated by natural light reflected by the CDs, it will be the first of a number of self-funded 'eco' installations using recycled materials, at Long Knoll Field in Wiltshire.

The field at Long Knoll is intersected by a public footpath and so 'CD Sea will be on public view as soon as it is installed. We hope that will be in June 2010.

A large installing party is planned, and photographs will be taken on the ground and also from a hot air balloon.
http://www.cdsea.co.uk/

way back in the fifties when teenage jazbos learnt chords etc he was a hero:




looking back respect and gratitude are due, especially for: