August 19, 2024

By Steven Johnson, 2001, Scribner Review by Roger F Malina Recommended by: Fred Turner, Roger Malina and add your name This book, from 2001, provides a broad outline of the topic of emergence in both social and physical systems. Drawing on evolutionary theory, urban studies, neuroscience and computer games ,it’s a good beginning of 21st […]

Roger F Malina Aug 17 2024 Context On August 16, 2024, Dennis Kratz bumped into Roger F. Malina in a UTDallas ATEC hallway in the Edith O’Donnell Center; a discussion ensued. Kratz is Director of the Center for Asia Studies at UTD. He mentioned that the number of Asian students in our JSOM business school

Aug 13 2024 I write this update as we prepare to remember Tom Linehan who died recently. He was part of a group of friends of friends that changed history for the better. The only reason i have now an endowed chair for the next 6 years at UTdallas is due to Tom Causality is

Perspectives on Sensory History Series, Penn State University Press 2023 Reviewed by : Roger F. Malina, Aug 11 2024 looking out a window In the common room of the Range at Tenison Park Golf Course, Texas Let me begin the words in the index that I circled: Wampum, Air (for Anu), Aesth-ethics, acoustemology, Rudolf Arnheim,