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• Rotation and the Taubman Approach to Piano Playing

  I’ve recently read alot about Dorothy Taubman and her approach to piano playing. There is one often cited controversy, the topic of rotation. To make matters worse, they come in two flavours: single and double rotations, and there is an extensive debate on whether double rotations do even exist, or if all the approach is even snake oil. I’m convinced it is at the basis of good technique, but I want to take a different approach at illustrating some things. And use different terms that may be more familiar to somebody who feels uncomfortable with the terms used by the Golandsky Institute.

  Posted Nov 30, 06:51 pm, Author Dana Stoll

• How Hierarchical Decisions Kill Initiative

  Here’s a small situational analysis that came up in a game, but so reminded me of what is wrong with our businesses.

  Assume you’re in a roleplay game. Assume you have an armada of spaceships. That armada flies in groups. One squad of destroyers, one squad of big tanky battleships, one squad of support ships. They fly missions. You join a couple of these missions in different squads and observe that there is one important ingredient missing: teamwork.

  Posted Jun 28, 09:22 pm, Author Dana Stoll

• Science and Religion: A Quest for Respect

  Scriptures like the Bible or the Qur’an have little to offer for the atheist scientist. The atheist scientist has completely stopped to ask “Why?” questions and finds delight in investigating “How?” things work. He knows emergence, butterfly effects, how complexity may arise from almost nothing, and does not need transcendental explanations for human complexity or afterlife.

  However, what has science to offer to people who did not give up “Why?” questions?

  Posted Oct 11, 06:20 pm, Author Dana Stoll

• Human Gene Editing and Religious Concerns

  The Religions say that you shouldn’t interfere with creation or God’s will. But. Even if you go down that road, then whatever you do or decide is already contained in God’s will. It’s not people interfering with a creationg, it’s contingent intelligence expressing itself. This line of reason offers as little ethical discussion as does a purely Darwinist stance …

  Posted Jul 29, 01:21 pm, Author Dana Stoll

• Thermodynamic Origin of Life

  Jeremy England, Assistant Professor at MIT, proposed that when an external energy source is applied, local structures will form that facilitate global entropy increase. They do so, because they can dissipate the externally applied energy much easier than a lump of disorganized atoms. Plants, for example, can absorb sunlight and dissipate the energy more effectively. Making copies of yourself may be attributed to the same principle.

  Posted Jul 10, 02:23 am, Author Dana Stoll

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