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Terry Gross On her NPR show Fresh Air asked Al Gore what surprised him the most about the current Bush Administration. He responded that he was “surprised by its incuriosity”. He wondered why Bush asked so few questions, why he never appeared to “look under the carpet”. Incuriosity, it seems to me, is more than [...]

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I was attending the annual Pace University Doctoral Dinner the other night and Bernie, who is a few steps ahead of me in the dissertation writing process, recommended this book. It is winging its way to me via the little miracle that is Amazon.com.

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< ?php amm_getMediaID('amm_default_output',4);?>< ?php amm_getMediaID('amm_default_output',5);?> At the NetSci workshop it was brought to our attention that the covers of both, Alessandro Vespignani’s and Noshir Contractor’s, books on network theory were remarkably alike. Let me add to this list the new Newman, Barabasi, and Watts tome The Structure and Dynamics of Networks.< ?php amm_getMediaID('amm_default_output',1);?> Some marketing [...]

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For those of you at the NetSci workshop who suggested that I bear a slight resemblance to a certain former commander-in-chief, I submit the following photo to disabuse you of that notion.

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Sometimes the best deadlines are, not only self-imposed, but also announced publicly. As I was taking these photos at the NetSci workshop a number of you asked for copies of the pictures. Although I didn’t have a blog at the time, I told everyone that I would publish them on my blog. With some timely [...]

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