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Doug Renselle's

Quantum Poisson Bracketings
A Comparative Complementarospective Review

of
Two Articles from 8Aug2008 issue
of
The Chronicle Review:

'Climate Change'
by Richard Monastersky

and

'Different Flings for Different Wings'
by Nathan W. Bailey

Those of you Harold Robbins fans may recognize Bailey's take-off title from Robbins' novel about Henry Ford's now sagging empire titled The Betsy (AKA, The Edsel).

You may recall Robbins' male protagonist response to a naked woman in a bathtub asking said protagonist for a "golden shower."

Response? "Different strokes for different folks."

Unforgetable novella (un)excellence...

Doug was amazed, to put it simply, that these two articles appeared sequentially in The Chronicle Review.

Doug's immediate reaction was that, perhaps unintentionally, TCR editors were introducing a quantum~Poisson~bracket of two academics' approaches and worth of them when assessed side-by-side.

As Doug was reading both articles, he kept saying to himself, "Why is Bailey's approach so superior to Monastersky's?"

Read for yourself! See if you agree.

What is Bailey doing?

What is Monastersky doing?

Is Bailey more quantum? Is that better?

Is Monastersky making massive assumptions most of which are unjustifiable?
Is he running on classical-scientific automatic without really thinking? Is he thing-king?

Doug's quantum~Poisson~Bracketing of both authors' works makes it possible to read each of them
using their own words to discuss dissimilar subject matter using their own language and reasoning.

Climate Change
vis-à-vis
Different Flings for Different Wings

Different Flings for Different Wings
vis-à-vis
Climate Change

Better

(Bailey)

Sporadically selected partial quotes from Bailey's text altered by Doug to quantum Poisson~Bracket~compare Bailey's natural homosexuality subject to Monastersky's climate change subject.

  • "When it comes to what makes global warming, the quest for a cause becomes even more obsessive."
  • "Many factors influence global warming in general, and their interactions vary."
  • "We need to move beyond thinking that scientists will find a single reason for global warming to exist in any environment — much less our own complicated one — and to explore the more enlightened view that many factors influence global warming in general."
  • "To understand global warming behavior, we have to do much more than identify a single neurochemical pathway that can cause it. "
  • "To further complicate matters, nongenetic influences, such as an individual's social experience, also play a role in regulating global warming behavior."
  • "The involvement of multiple genes and social influences causes enough complication, but here's the real kicker: When you take into account all the ways those factors can interact, the result is a mind-boggling, multidimensional, crisscrossing network of genetic and environmental pathways that culminate in the [global warming] behaviors we observe."
  • "Furthermore, individuals in a species have different genetic backgrounds, so we can't expect the environment's influence on [global warming] behavior to be consistent from one environment to the next."
  • "The inevitable conclusion is that all the studies in the world will never get us any closer to a root cause that will explain global warming to our satisfaction. But that certainly does not mean we should stop investigating global warming behavior in a variety of environments."
  • "The pendulum of public opinion is fortunately swinging away from the simplistic idea that a so called carbon gene can explain global warming, but we have to be careful not to replace one flawed view with another: that global warming is too complicated to be studied usefully."
  • Etc.

Sporadically selected partial quotes from Bailey's original text with comparative terms in bold green.

  • "When it comes to what makes some of us homosexual, the quest for a cause becomes even more obsessive."
  • "Many factors influence sexuality in general, and their interactions vary."
  • "We need to move beyond thinking that scientists will find a single reason for homosexuality to exist in any species — much less our own complicated one — and to explore the more enlightened view that many factors influence sexuality in general."
  • "To understand homosexual behavior, we have to do much more than identify a single neurochemical pathway that can cause it. "
  • "To further complicate matters, nongenetic influences, such as an individual's social experience, also play a role in regulating homosexual behavior."
  • "The involvement of multiple genes and social influences causes enough complication, but here's the real kicker: When you take into account all the ways those factors can interact, the result is a mind-boggling, multidimensional, crisscrossing network of genetic and environmental pathways that culminate in the [homosexual] behaviors we observe."
  • "Furthermore, individuals in a species have different genetic backgrounds, so we can't expect the environment's influence on [homosexual] behavior to be consistent from one animal to the next."
  • "The inevitable conclusion is that all the studies in the world will never get us any closer to a root cause that will explain homosexuality to our satisfaction. But that certainly does not mean we should stop investigating homosexual behavior in a variety of species."
  • "The pendulum of public opinion is fortunately swinging away from the simplistic idea that a so called gay gene can explain homosexuality, but we have to be careful not to replace one flawed view with another: that human sexuality is too complicated to be studied usefully."
  • Etc.

Worse

(Monastersky)

Sporadically selected partial quotes from Monastersky's original text with comparative terms in bold red.

 

  • "The political winds have warmed steadily this year on the issue of climate change."
  • "Warming of the oceans and atmosphere could trigger irreversible environmental changes in coming decades,"
  • "Both John McCain and Barack Obama have pledged to reverse the course of past administrations and demonstrate leadership on the issue of climate change by cutting domestic emissions sharply."
  • "...says Daniel M. Kammen, a professor in the energy and resources group at the University of California at Berkeley. 'The world can't get on a path to a low-carbon economy without the United States,' "
  • "On the surface, the climate-policy proposals of the two candidates share many features. Both endorse a market-based approach called a cap-and-trade system,"
  • "That conflict reflects a broader debate in the academic world about how quickly the nation needs to kick its carbon habit and how to best reach that goal."
  • "How much of a priority should global warming be?"
  • "How quickly should the United States and the world cut emissions of greenhouse gases?"
  • "What is the best way to reduce the nation's carbon footprint?"
  • "Is it economically feasible to reduce emissions quickly enough to make a difference?"
  • Etc.

Sporadically selected partial quotes from Monastersky's text altered by Doug to quantum~Poisson~Bracket compare Monastersky's climate change subject to Bailey's natural homosexuality subject.

  • "The political winds have warmed steadily this year on the issue of homosexuality."
  • "Natural homosexuality could trigger irreversible environmental changes in coming decades,"
  • "Both John McCain and Barack Obama have pledged to reverse the course of past administrations and demonstrate leadership on the issue of homosexuality by cutting domestic homosexual behaviors sharply."
  • "...says Daniel M. Kammen, a professor in the energy and resources group at the University of California at Berkeley. 'The world can't get on a path to a low-homosexual economy without the United States,' "
  • "On the surface, homosexual-policy proposals of the two candidates share many features. Both endorse a market-based approach called a cap-and-trade system,"
  • "That conflict reflects a broader debate in the academic world about how quickly the nation needs to kick its homosexual habit and how to best reach that goal."
  • "How much of a priority should homosexuality be?"
  • "How quickly should the United States and the world cut emissions of homosexual behaviors?"
  • "What is the best way to reduce the nation's homosexual footprint?"
  • "Is it economically feasible to reduce homosexual behaviors quickly enough to make a difference?"
  • Etc.


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