One of the Die Hard movies is on...where they rob the gold from the Federal Reserve..."Fort Knox...it's for tourists!"...there an odd scene where they're running down the street and the Twin Towers are in the background...
At work there's a continual stream some days of carping anecdotes...they're all alike...and at the end of one today it was said..."It's Trout Thinking." What?...I asked..insomuch as the story was an example of just what I posted last night...it was a failure of "depth perception"...."The trout (the explanation) go for the lure one day...get released...and go for the same lure the next day!"
Oh...I said...
brb....
well...I snagged this from a class assignment on the web...
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A Fish Thinking About Water: Revealing the Paradigms of Our Disciplines[Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are] almost always ... either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change .... These are the men [and women] who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.
Thomas S. Kuhn
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who's Kuhn?...brb...
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In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (SSR) Kuhn argued that science does not progress via a linear accumulation of new knowledge, but undergoes periodic revolutions, also called "paradigm shifts" (although he did not coin the phrase),[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn
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Now some strange monster movie...the villagers after Frankenstein...like Quasimodo on the windmill!....oh...and vampires...
well...I'll get to paradigms...but want more on the trout!...brb...
sheesh...Quasimodo's in it too!...it's van helsing...
here's a page on thinking fish!
http://www.fish-school.com/links.htm
brb...
http://www.fishinghurts.com/
It seems the thing to do to fish hereabouts, once I went with a friend to May Lake...they caught a bunch which cooked up great for dinner...I caught one and released it...later on my own I caught another...same place...and would have released it..but the triple barb hook I couldn't remove..so I cooked it up!...it was a melancholy meal while camping and backpacking solo...I had food and didn't need the trout...which was a pretty Brook trout...but...I haven't sworn off catching trout!..yet...thought I've bumped right into tonight what may be a new "paradigm"!!...brb....
well...I've got to many ideas going at once!....depth of field has gotten overtaken by these thinking fish...and
well...and a werewolf and a pretty girl!!.....
and that word...paradigm...brb...
and well...a sidetrack!
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The long two-volume report, called the "Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project," was released by the National Park Service, though some of the authors published results in peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the eight main sites, data were collected at 12 secondary locations, including Washington's North Cascades.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/352814_parkpollute27.html
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hereabouts are air testing stations...odd looking things powered by solar panels...brb....
http://www.nature.nps.gov/air/studies/air_toxics/wacap.cfm
http://www.nature.nps.gov/air/studies/air_toxics/docs/2008FinalReport/AirborneContaminantStudy20080226Announcement.pdf
Sequoia and Kings Canyon were part of the study....brb...
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Did You Know?
Riparian communities are adjacent to the river channel and tributaries; they are the interface between the river and surrounding meadow and upland communities. They provide specialized habitat and important nutrients to the meadow and river systems.
http://www.nps.gov/yose/naturescience/airquality.htm
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that would be the Creek....
oh...back to paradigm...
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Paradigm shift, sometimes known as extraordinary science or revolutionary science, is the term first used by Thomas Kuhn in his influential 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science. It is in contrast to his idea of normal science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift
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normal..brb...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_science
these are all Kuhn's notions...brb...
And I'll have to think through this tomorrow...where I'm headed is that Nature is static...and all these scientific paradigm shifts...an anamoly...discovering Nature is one thing...using these discoveries to change Nature another...or something!...tomorrow!
Nature in equilibrium. That's better.
Oh!...a side by side
Side one...
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"A new species can arise when a small segment of the ancestral population is isolated at the periphery of the ancestral range. Large, stable central populations exert a strong homogenizing influence. New and favorable mutations are diluted by the sheer bulk of the population through which they must spread. They may build slowly in frequency, but changing environments usually cancel their selective value long before they reach fixation. Thus, phyletic transformation in large populations should be very rare—as the fossil record proclaims. But small, peripherally isolated groups are cut off from their parental stock. They live as tiny populations in geographic corners of the ancestral range. Selective pressures are usually intense because peripheries mark the edge of ecological tolerance for ancestral forms. Favorable variations spread quickly. Small peripheral isolates are a laboratory of evolutionary Change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium
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and side two..
quote (from above!)
A Fish Thinking About Water: Revealing the Paradigms of Our Disciplines[Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are] almost always ... either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change .... These are the men [and women] who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.
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a paradigm shift is a punctuated equilibrium...or something like that!
Van helsing is trying to thwart Count Dracula's!!
And Frankenstien's back...
DavidDavid
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