FRIAM-ers:
The current issue of the American magazine, The New Yorker, has an
interesting article on Sim City developer Will Wright at
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/061106fa_factIt touches on the popular history of gaming and Wright's current work with
Spore.
And in the same issue (no wonder I don't get any REAL work done) is a review
of the epidemiology of cholera ("Sick
City<
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/061106crbo_books>
Maps and mortality in the time of cholera" by Steven Shapin) Another good
read about London doctor John Snow's work at
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/061106crbo_books--T.
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Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
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http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.us
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
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