On Roger’s mind July 12, 2024 Colleagues I just started reconnecting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_(artist). He is also known Nahum Mantra and Nahum Romero Zamora. See the email exchange at the end of this blog. I just turned 74 years old and have discovered that I am e-connected with tens of thousands of friends and colleagues; this […]
Jul 5 2024: Roger F. Malina, Fred Turner Robert Stern, Tina Qin, Paul Fishwick and and Summary We are starting a UTD Center for Emergence Studies. There are several motivations, but one is that the COVID-19 pandemic enabled growth and reduction of certain phenomena. In general, these were detected late by large top-down organizations. In
Emergent Methodologies 101 Read More »
Roger F Malina July 3 2024 Published on this blog: Did you know Ants Exhibit Compassion, Empathy and Sympathy July 3 2024 I love the wild connections in the ants piece. But I think we need some sharper distinctions. E. O. Wilson, whom I knew, was a leading figure in the recognition of eusociality in
Fred Turner’s response to: Did you know Ants Exhibit Compassion, Empathy and Sympathy? Read More »
Roger F Malina July 3 2024 Compassion: I am working with high school teacher Antonia Moran , https://artscilab.utdallas.edu/2024/04/04/compassion-as-medicine-literature-as-the-catalyst/ , and Johnathan Tsou https://profiles.utdallas.edu/jonathan.tsou . Antonia Moran is leading a funding proposal in our UTDallas ArtSciLab , https://artscilab.utdallas.edu/ , on Compassion Science. She is focusing on the role of literature and narratives. She will be applying
Did you know Ants Exhibit Compassion, Empathy and Sympathy Read More »
June 14, 2024, Roger F Malina Apophenia is a skill, but I have PAREIDOLIA. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pareidolia. I am obsessed with my friends about creating a cibervillage ( NOT a cyber village or a smart village or …). Yes, our first village fair was in Bogota, Colombia: https://festivaldelaimagen.com/en/portfolio-item/ciber-villages-2/ We think, as do others, that large human groups
CiberVillage here we KOM : Read More »
Roger F. Malina, ArtSciLab, Bass School, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Upon reading “ A neuroscientist’s duty to Black Ancestors’ by Chandler Wright. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp0690 The concept of desirable migration is deeply embedded in my family history, and a trigger for my first career as a space astrophysicist. My father was Frank. J.
A Hybrid Professional’s duty to Migrant Ancestors Read More »
As of June 17 2024 Blog by Roger F. Malina On the 14th of July 1974 My best friend the late Arthur Davidsen and I Spent a pointless night observing a strange phenomenon On, Or in, The sky. All night. Several nights. At the Lick Observatory Above Silicon valley Which had just been named in
By Roger Malina Introduction The human senses are incredibly efficient filters. They exclude from our perception almost all knowledge about the world beyond our skin and inside our bodies. Over the eons of human evolution, our senses have evolved to allow us to detect just enough information about the world so that we can survive
The Strong Case for Art-Science Interaction Read More »
Roger F Malina June 13 2024 I have never existed before Senexology emerged in my times Old and young at the same time Playing on the beach of experience Exercising all four compass points at once Personal. Physical. Professional. Philosophical. With experience of tens of years you learn That the orchestra conductor of metacognition Is
Senexism doesn’t Beget Cynicism Read More »
an evening of meditations and sound works based on the observations of the James Web Space Telescope Dear Friends, You are invited to a special evening of spatialized audio for space data on the 26th of June at 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt France starting at 8 pm. Building on the research of the ESA’s VLT, the James
Sonic reflections of deep space Read More »
