Only yesterday E-Missive from Roger Malina, March 4 2024 A: IN PRAISE Of ANECDOTES I just started reading Frederick Lewis Allen’ s 1931 book “Only Yesterday’ and realized that my father was 19 at Texas A and M and soon to be a graduate student at Caltech attending communist parties. My father was born in […]
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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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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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Friends colleagues and best enemies As you know we are crowdfunding our Creative Disturbance Platform. Please. https://impact.utdallas.edu/project/41422 The chief disturber is our artscilab manager Evan Acuna And If you make a donation, we promise to record and publish A podcast with you- we will be contacting all donors And we are particularly interested in Canada
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Feb 5 2024 Roger F. Malina and Thomas Kubli The term disremembering entered my thinking upon the death of a colleague Richard Brettell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brettell. He was a ‘refugee’ to UTDallas when he lost his job at the Dallas Museum of Art He was one of the people who helped convince Roger Malina to move to
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Roger F Malina Feb 4 2024 Irreversibility This morning I am readying material provided by Anu Gowda and Yueh-Jung Lee; I serve on their PhD committees. This blog is a result of this weekend work, and I would like to bring to their attention: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374521000108 Creativity studies has focused on creative thinking processes, problem-solving, and
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