- Too many mice kills the society
- With eel grass, starfish live lone lives, without it, they clump together
- Rats in human cities tended to self-regulate their populations
- Fighting takes place on the way to the feeder, but not at the feeder itself
- Hypothesis that small mammals have frequent aggressive interactions; as the interactions drop, the mammals move in the direction that is most likely to increase such interactions, thus spreading out
- Generations of leisure impairs the ability to care for young
- Morning songs may be how birds take a census
- Dominant rats did not mind pan-sexual and homosexual rat advances on themselves
- Culture helps manage the abundance of social interactions we have today
- An “invisible college” allows for important topics to be discussed and foment so answers are ready when they are needed
- (This is something the internet can help with but does not necessarily)
- Rats with low social velocity have more randomized patterns that might be better adapted for changing environments
- Connectivity decreases entropy but adds stress
Category: Reading
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“Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery” by Lee Alan Dugatkin
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“The Spinach King” by John Seabrook
- “Truck” comes from “bartering or produce growing”
- Marel is a prehistoric chemical that made the northeast growing really productive
- East Coast farms were slow to adopt irrigation, hampering their productivity
- Road building is naturally connected to farming because they need to get their farm goods to where the people are
- National road building was originally under the Department of Agriculture
- During WWII, people were encouraged to pick frozen foods to let canned goods support the war
- There is a difference between having money and being rich
- Farming + Contractor work = Year-round work
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapy system that is an internal analysis
- (Damaged people exude power to distract from the weakness inside)
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“Samsung Rising” by Geoffrey Cain
- Korean national pride and Samsung are often synonymous
- Samsung wanted to be taken as seriously as Apple
- Focused on generalist in the early years
- “I don’t tell them. They’re supposed to notice.” On note taking habits
- Buying a newspaper allowed them to aggressively manage their public image
- In the revolution, banks were pulled from corporations and leaders had to manufacture their way into good graces
- Korea is open and still nationalist
- If Samsung failed, much of Korea’s economy would also collapse
- “Change everything but your wife and kids”
- In the 90’s, Samsung started to look for a coherent design
- Samsung started looking for products and designs that could be distinctive
- At the height of the Asian Financial Crisis, Samsung started exporting phones to the US
- “Running a big company is like running a cemetery. There are thousands of people beneath you and no one is listening.”
- Samsung’s chairman executed a sketchy stock trade, after which there was intense legal scrutiny
- Legal problems continue to plague the company
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“Is a river alive?” by Robert MacFarlane
- Ghost rivers run under cities, often through the sewers
- Resource are not, they become
- “Rivers remember their many homes”
- Turtle gender is determined by the nest temperature