Roger Malina

Ciber-Villages

Tommy Ayala, Carlos Beltrán, Ricardo Dal Farra, Tomás Londoño, Roger Malina Este taller propone centrarse en las características relevantes de las ciudades y pueblos inteligentes, animando a los participantes a reflexionar sobre los complejos problemas de la sociedad planetaria así como los de nuestra comunidad local, y buscando de forma colectiva y empática, mejores soluciones […]

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Mundus Emergium from Mundus Artium: Pirates and Refugees at UTDallas in Honor of Vagrant Eclipses

Roger F Malina Upon starting to think read “Mundus Artium: A journal of international letters and the arts, Volume 17, Numbers 1 and 2 2023 Pirate Minds, Pirate Mints, Pirate Eclipses There are over 7,500 varieties of mint plants, including trees, shrubs, and ornamental plants. The most common species are peppermint, spearmint, and chocolate mint and mint

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April 2024 Solar Eclipse Poems: Fred Turner and George Morgan

Pasted together by Roger Malina Where the sun should not, cannot, does not shine. The artscilab under Jennifer DeLeon and Philip Martin’s curatorships are organizing an eclipse exhibition- the anxious joke is that the eclipse is crossing from Mexico to Texas without a passport or visa. Meanwhile a call for eclipse poems has already et

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Review of “The Art+Science+Policy Nexus External Study” by E.U. Joint Research Center

Review of “The Art+Science+Policy Nexus External Study” by E.U. Joint Research Center Author: Austen, K.  Caterina Benicasa ed. Publications of the Office of The European Union, Luxembourg, 2023. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/641713  https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/57a4a020-8f31-11ee-8aa6-01aa75ed71a1/ By Roger F Malina, Executive Editor Emeritus, Leonardo /International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. Even though this is “just” a study report, it

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Bounded Irrationality coupled to bounded rationality in Smart Villages

Triggered by Tommy Ayala smart village post about Bounded Rationality                     2/26/2024 10:23 am The discussion on bounded rationality, according to Wikipedia, was originally developed by Herbert A. Simon, date TBD. Wikipedia in 2023 defines bounded rationality as “the idea that rationality is limited when individuals make decisions, and under these limitations (?) rational individuals will

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Why Ignorance is Useful Bliss For the ArtSciLab Smart Village

Feb 2 2024 Upon beginning to read : Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies, Edited By Matthias Gross, Linsey McGoey Copyright 2023 https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Ignorance-Studies/Gross-McGoey/p/book/9780367608149# Understanding and applying Innovation Studies are crucial to the work of our UTDallas ArtSciLab, but only recently Ignorance studies came to my attention. As a physicist I expected quantum mechanics and electromagnetic

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