Enjoyed this very much. Thanks,
Jerry
On 12/18/16, 10:45 PM, "Ken Friedman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> From time to time, I have mentioned Jeremy Bernstein's marvelous essay titled
> ¡°How Do We Know that Albert Einstein Was Not a Crank?¡± It is published in his
> book, Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos.
>
> Bernstein opens with this passage:
>
> ¡ªsnip¡ª
>
> The year is 1905. I am a professor of physics at the University of Bern. For
> many years, I have been teaching, probably from the same set of notes,
> respectable courses based on what is for me the familiar and comfortable
> physics of the nineteenth century. I teach the mechanics of Newton, the
> relatively modern theories of electricity and magnetism of James Clerk
> Maxwell, along with good solid nineteenth-century thermodynamics. I believe
> that atoms exist although I am troubled occasionally by the question that,
> around the turn of the century, Ernst Mach asked Ludwig Boltzmann: "Have you
> seen one?" All in all, it is a good, comfortable life. Then, with no warning
> at all, a series of physics papers begins arriving in the mail. They carry the
> return address of the Swiss National Patent Office in Bern. The covering
> letter identifies their author as a patent examiner -- a technical expert
> "third class" -- of whom I have never heard. He does not even have a doctoral
> title. Upon browsing through the papers, I discover that this doctorless
> unknown is claiming -- using totally unfamiliar kinds of reasoning -- that
> essentially all of the physics I have been teaching is wrong. Not just wrong
> in a few minor details, but fundamentally wrong. What would my reaction be?
> What should it have been? In short, how could I then have known that the
> author of these papers -- the twenty-six-year-old Albert Einstein was not a
> crank?
>
> ¡ªsnip¡ª
>
> Every now and then, I get requests from subscribers to this list and others
> for a copy of the article. For those who are interested, I have posted
> Bernstein¡¯s article to the ¡°Teaching Documents¡± section of my Academia page at
> URL:
>
> https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
>
> Good holiday reading for researchers ¡.
>
> Yours,
>
> Ken
>
> Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | Éè¼Æ She Ji. The Journal
> of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in
> Cooperation with Elsevier | URL:
> http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-in
> novation/
>
> Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and
> Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished
> Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology
> | Melbourne, Australia
>
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>
>
>> On Dec 18, 2016, at 10:44 PM, roger malina <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Yasminers
>>
>> We are pleased to start our discussion : What does STEM to STEAM mean:
>> New Ideas or Hot Moist Air ?
>>
>> Moderator: Roger Malina
>>
>> Discussants: Dimitris Charitos ( Prof at University of Athens ,
>> Greece), Guillermo Munoz ( Spain, currently a nanoscience postdoc in
>> Japan),Gemma Anderson ( Artist and Lecturer in Drawing at Falmouth
>> University). Ken Friedman ( original fluxus member and design dean).
>> *Julia Buntaine (Neuroscience-based art)
>
> ¡ªsnip¡ª
>
>> As you know there is an international discussion on "stem to
>> steam"concepts and approaches for new art/sci/tech teaching and
>> research methods. There is much debate and discussion on whether the
>> ideas behind STEM to STEAM are new in anyway, or whether the phrase is
>> a repackaging of current work in a way to attract new funding ( for an
>> understanding the social and cultural processes at work in 'selling'
>> programs like stem to steam - on a larger scale- see for instance
>> Patrick McCray's detailed book called The Visioneers: How a Group of
>> Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a
>> Limitless Future http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9822.html )
>
> ¡ªsnip¡ª
>
>> ""STARTS encourages synergies between the Arts and innovation for
>> technology and society by promoting the inclusion of artists in
>> Horizon 2020 projects.An increasing number of high-tech companies
>> assert that scientific and technological skills alone are not
>> sufficient anymore. In this context, the Arts are gaining prominence
>> as catalysts for an efficient conversion of science and technology
>> knowledge into novel products, services, and processes.""
>> We will start the discussion with posts from our invited respondents
>>
>> What is new in the STEM to STEAM concept ? What can be done easily now
>> that was difficult to do 20 years ago?
>
> ¡ªsnip¡ª
>
>
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