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Senexoptimism: A Neuroscience and Humanities of how motivation evolves for the better with age and Experience

9/7/2024 Roger F. Malina in connection with the C4ES team. A group of us is trying to set up a Center for the Study of Emergence within the ArtSciLab (C4ES) at the University of Texas at Dallas...

From: Roger F MalinaTo Ground Works Village Editorial Team and the on line Aibots

Groundworks as a Pool in a Village where growing molds is crucial Groundworks is a publication of A2RU: https://a2ru.org/groundworks/ I give my feedback to the detailed specifics to Veronika...

Leaving a Trace for the emerging different ArtSciLab and the proposed Center for Emergence Studies: Creative Disturbance ReSurgence

Roger F Malina Aug 23 2024 The sentences in this text have been adopted from page 63 and 64 of Steven Johnson’s book “Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software” 2001 Scribner...

The Senex

ColleaguesThis is a DRAFT article for you to READ but no do anything else with it.If you do want to do something ( share/contribute/etc) contact me atrmalina@alum.mit.eduWe have submitted this for...

Emergence of Diasporas as Crucially Important

Roger F Malina brainstorm Aug 19 2024 This morning Swati Anwesha walked into our ArtSciLab; she is a PhD student in literature, and originally from India. When we started working together, she was...

C4ES Library: Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software

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...

UTDallas Emergence of Cyclical Diaspora Studies 

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...

Roger Malina Disremembering: Helen and Newton Harrison Sept 4 2022

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...

Read this book, but: David Howes: Sensorial Investigations

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...