Many blogs and many Sites of mine have been lost in space by crashing computers and changing emails that were the addresses. Frustrating. My daily notes amounted to ten 2.5 inch binders of double sided foolscap paper. The collection got tossed when we moved downstairs because it was clutter. I'm sorry about that rash decision because the pen is greater than the best mind for remembering details. C'est la vie.
My concept for creating blogs and sites was to compartmentalize various interests to put some order into my mental ramblings in the hopes of landing on a few topics to focus on. My attention is scattered among many subjects so it is like being a juggler somedays. But the thing is, there is some method to what I do and I synthesize ideas by bringing together diverse subjects E.O. Wilson has a name for this:
con·sil·ience | \\ kən-ˈsil-yən(t)s \\. : the linking together of principles from different disciplines especially when forming a comprehensive theory.
Wilson wrote a book about how important it is for scientists to venture outside their disciplines... cross pollination so to speak. The challenge is to make sense of it all.
Wilson is interesting. He injured his eye as a child and was only able to see ants easily so he became an expert in ants.
Edward Osborne Wilson, usually cited as E. O. Wilson is an American biologist, naturalist, and writer. en.wikipedia.org
- June 10, 1929 (age 92), Birmingham, Alabama
E.O. Wilson of Ants and Men
https://www.pbs.org/show/eo-wilson-ants-and-men/
Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman. Edward O. Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1929.
Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino Research Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator in Entomology at Harvard, presents the annual John M. Prather Lecture in Biology.
The boundary between science on one side and the humanities and humanistic social sciences on the other is not an intrinsic epistemological divide but a broad borderland of previously poorly understood causal relationships. The borderland is now being explored, and offers increasing opportunities for collaboration across three great branches of learning. A definition of human nature will be offered and examples from the borderland will be used to illustrate it.
Organized by the departments of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology & Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard.
https://youtu.be/hHkejCL9AWw
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but follow no one absolutely.
Don’t worry about getting old, worry about thinking old.
No matter how long it takes, it will get better. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
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