WK E HAVE had to revamp many of our old ideas about feeding livestock. War proved again the tremendous importance of food. Wc had to get all the milk, eggs, poultry, meat, pork, lard, beef, veal, lamb, and mutton we could and make every tittle of grain count in doing so. Chicken was compared with hog and hog with steer to see which yielded the most nutrients for humans in return for the least f...

New Ideas In Pathfinding

We take the view (advanced, among others, by Schumpeter) that new ideas are original combinations of existing elements. While many random combinations are useless, some represent combinations which ”...t” together, aggregating di¤erent components in a novel and functional way. Thus, in order to appraise an innovative idea it is necessary to have specialized experts examine whether each of its d...

9s. 6d.) London: Mills & Boom, 19,64. THIS well produced book has an informal and friendly approach and is designed especially for girls who will soon leave school. It starts with the family in the home and considers personal hygiene, the house, heating and ventilation, water supplies and sanitary services. It has three well-informed and balanced chapters on food, on food poisoning and on the h...

In 1994 four colleagues from different HE institutions in Norway started a collaborative R & D project for net based, open and flexible higher education. The project was named Norway-net with IT for Open Learning (NITOL), with focus on professional and institutional collaboration. Exchange and distribution of learning material through electronic networks were hard to implement in the pre-WWW da...

An idea is not a replicator because it does not consist of coded self-assembly instructions. It may retain structure as it passes from one individual to another, but does not replicate it. The cultural replicator is not an idea but an associatively-structured network of them that together form an internal model of the world, or worldview. A worldview is a primitive, uncoded replicator, like the...