When PRofessor Dalke mentioned how many things from Paul Krugman's talk relate to our class, it got me thinking about how closely related Darwin's evolutionary theory and Adam Smith's economic theory are.  Smith and Darwin were both scientific writers with a flair for the prosaic.  And, in fact, they even have a tendency to share metaphors.  It's not really that surprising, really.  For example, Darwin's vision of finches evolving through natural selection to suit their environment is extremely similar to how Smith said businesses would mold themselves to a changing market in order to fulfill demand for a product, service, etc.  They even both come up with the same word to describe this phenomenon: niche.  What I like about this is that it und

"That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed."

- Albert Einstein

 GIST Notes 03/28/2011

First Half of class: Barad and Tian

TiffanyE: Thinking about whether objectivity is possible in the physical world…

Liz: Notion of those who make the classification, how experiments turn out…the agency of people and how they act and what they do plays a critical role

TiffanyE: The standard or measurement in which the world is classified is subjective b/c (like in video) observations and measurements are always subjective based on the person who makes it..so if our classifications are made always by a specific group of people it’s subjective

I like zombies. 

I like video games.

As such, I always seem to be on the lookout for new zombie games, console and web-based, that go beyond your typical first person shooter à la Resident Evil, Left 4 Dead, Days 2 Die, etc.

And I've found two recently that tickle my fancy.