[Xmca-l] Re: The power of Humanities in a recursive loop

Martin John Packer mpacker@uniandes.edu.co
Wed May 25 10:46:27 PDT 2016


With a historical dimension, too:

<http://www.nature.com/news/the-secret-history-of-ancient-toilets-1.19960?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20160526&spMailingID=51458273&spUserID=MTc1NjM2MjgwODgwS0&spJobID=923132954&spReportId=OTIzMTMyOTU0S0>

Martin

> On May 23, 2016, at 7:09 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
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> There is a fascinating sub-branch of science which has developed in which scientists sample the sewerage outflow from entire cities and analyse it down to tiny traces, producing a measure of the amount of alcohol or  methanphetamine being used, the extent of diabetes, the state of the populations kdineys etc., just as they would for an individual.
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> Andy
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> Andy Blunden
> http://home.mira.net/~andy
> http://www.brill.com/products/book/origins-collective-decision-making 
> On 24/05/2016 4:47 AM, Martin John Packer wrote:
>> That’s exactly what I figure each time I flush paint thinner down the toilet!  :)
>> 
>> Martin
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>>> On May 23, 2016, at 12:09 PM, Annalisa Aguilar <annalisa@unm.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> A thermogeologist once told me, "The solution to pollution is dilution." So my thinking is like that.
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