February 22, 2007
Cleaning the sock drawer, Abu Shouk to Bagnold
In my newfound Copious Spare Time (TM), I have discovered I have accumulated nearly 1.4 gigabytes of unsorted academic papers on my hard drive.
Fortunately, I still have some aspirin left over from my last job.
To structure this task, I'm going to list all the papers here in alphabetical order by author, starting with the A's. If anyone sees something they want my opinion about, ask. I might answer! No really.
Abu Shouk - A Sudanese missionary to the United States - Satti Majid, 'Shayk al-Islam in North A...Filled with amazing things. A Illinois Catholic priest in the 1900s, who declared himself the prophet Elijah, preached the destruction of Islam, and got into a prayer contest with an Ahmadi missionary where the loser would go insane and die? Oh yes. A nickel on who lost that bet.
Acemoglu - An African success story, BotswanaThe key word here is "jawless". Used to be thought that only the jawed vertebrates had immune systems that could learn from experience. Turns out the lampreys have their own, and very different, adaptive system.Adams and Otte - Did Indo-European languages spread before farming
Adelaar - Malay influence on Malagasy, linguistic and culture-historical implications
Aiken and Lu - The evolution of bookkeeping in China, integrating historical trends with Western...
Alba and Golden - Patterns of ethnic marriage in the United States
Albery and Knowles - Evolution of enzyme function and the development of catalytic efficiency
Alder - Diversity and function of adaptive immune receptors in a jawless vertebrate
Alder - Diversity and function, supporting online material
Allison - Haematoxylin, from the woodMedieval Keralan mathematics are amazing. Was there a cultural area that wasn't knocking on calculus's door?Almeida and Joseph - Eurocentrism in the history of mathematics, the case of the Kerala School
Amar - The scarlet dye of the Holy LandThe Tempskya was one weird plant.Anderson - Crossing the Luzon Strait, archaeological chronology in the Batanes Islands, Philippi...
Andrews - Notes on the genus Tempskya (1943)
Andrews and Kern - The Idaho Tempskyas and associated fossil plants (1947)
Anguizola - Negroes in the building of the Panama Canal (1968)Bagnold would have tamed a sandworm with his bare hands had one been so foolish to cross his path. Instead, he used a car. The Mars Rover people still use his stuff.Aronson - In harm's way, infections in deployed American military forces
Arthur and Polak - The evolution of technology within a simple computer model
Ashby - Principles of the self-organizing system (1962)
Babbitt and Gerlt - Understanding enzyme superfamilies
Baez - Exotic statistics for loops in 4d BF theory
Baez - Recursivity in quantum mechanics
Baez and Lauda - A history of n-categorical physics (draft)
Bagnold - A further journey through the Libyan desert (1933)
Bagnold - A further journey through the Libyan desert, continued (1933)
Bagnold - A further journey through the Libyan desert, discussion (1933)
Bagnold - An expedition to the Gilf Kebir and 'Uweinat, 1938 (1939)
Bagnold - An expedition to the Gilf Kebir and 'Uweinat, 1938, discussion (1939)
Bagnold - Early days of the Long Range Desert Group (1945)
Bagnold - Journeys in the Libyan desert 1929 and 1930 (1931)
Bagnold - Journeys in the Libyan desert 1929 and 1930, discussion (1931)
Bagnold - Journeys in the Libyan desert 1929 and 1930, late question (1931)
Bagnold - Journeys in the Libyan desert 1929 and 1930, map, notes (1931)
Bagnold - Review, The last of the Zerzura legend
Bagnold - The Libyan Desert (1936)
Posted by coyu at February 22, 2007 04:50 AM
If you actually have an electronic copy of Almeida & Joseph, I'd be really interested in reading it, as well as getting your take.
Posted by: Cosma at February 22, 2007 05:25 PM> Acemoglu - An African success story, Botswana
This could be interesting. Does it add to what we think we know already?
> Alba and Golden - Patterns of ethnic marriage in the United States
Sure, why not.
> Allison - Haematoxylin, from the wood
I'm just wondering what this is about.
> The Tempskya was one weird plant.
Briefly, how?
> Anguizola - Negroes in the building of the Panama Canal (1968)
That's early for this sort of thing. Sounds interesting.
> Aronson - In harm's way, infections in deployed American military forces
And this too.
> Arthur and Polak - The evolution of technology within a simple computer model
Capsule description?
> Bagnold
Pick one or two of these, if you would.
So, would like: Alba & Golden, Anguizola, Aronson, and a couple of Bagnolds, and would like to hear more about the others.
Doug M.
> Acemoglu - An African success story, Botswana
I’d be curious to hear about this. What does Acemogul think are the chief reasons it became a success story?
> Alba and Golden - Patterns of ethnic marriage in the United States
Sure. What patterns do they talk about?
> Andrews and Kern - The Idaho Tempskyas and associated fossil plants (1947)
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> The Tempskya was one weird plant.
Why?
Hmm. . . I chose these before I looked at the other comments, and every one of my choices was also chosen by Doug. Odd that.
Cheers,
Mike
So erm, since you mentioned that these academic papers are on your harddrive, does that mean these are available online somewhere?
Posted by: Martin Wisse at February 23, 2007 11:59 AM