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  adastra : Curious Mutant

INTO THE COOL and other Dispatches from Our Scientist Friends :)

adastra said Jan 11, 2008, 9:30 AM:
 

My friend Paul recently commented “…for my Integral friends, I'm recommending Breaking the Spell, by Danial Dennett and suggesting they read the short version of Into The Cool that is available for free on the IntoTheCool.com web site.  I suggest these not because I believe that the universe is nothing but dust and heat in motion, but rather because I think it is good sometimes to really understand where the scientists are coming from.”

I totally agree with this, understanding where the scientists are coming from - it's a valuable slice of the kosmic pie, and quite delicious at times.  :)  (Even nutritious and good for you if you take the requisite integral supplements as part of your daily diet.)

The Into The Cool website has some pretty excerpts that look fascinating at first glance; must check this out further.

Also, there's a really cool podcast called Quirks and Quarks that I would recommend.   Boing Boing offers this recommendation of a recent Q&Q show:

Physics of Information: great panel discussion

Posted by Cory Doctorow, January 10, 2008 12:19 AM |
Last week on CBC Radio's national science program, Quirks and Quarks, they broadcast a recording of a fascinating panel discussion on “The Physics of Information: What the Universe Doesn't Want You to Know,” held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. In this wide-ranging discussion a panel of distinguished and likable physicists run down such subjects as the universe as a computer, quantum teleportation, the fundamentals of information science, The panelists were in a state of near-hilarity through much of the the event, and that only made the subject better. Included on the panel were: Dr. Leonard Susskind (Stanford), Dr. Seth Lloyd (MIT), Dr. Christopher Fuchs (UNM), Sir Anthony Leggett (Urbana-Champaign), and the moderator, Bob McDonald, host of Quirks and Quarks.
The Physics of Information was the topic of a recent public forum, sponsored by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, and moderated by Bob McDonald. And Quirks was there to record the event. Do ideas about information and reality inspire fruitful new approaches to the hardest problems of modern physics? What can we learn about the paradoxes of quantum mechanics, the beginning of the universe and our understanding of black holes, by thinking about the very essence of information? Those are some of the questions our panel tackled.
Link, Link to MP3, Link to podcast feed

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