William Irwin Thompson
Sign in to saveAmerican poet and social critic (1938–2020)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 16 July 1938
- Works
- 29
Top works
- Thinking Together at the Edge of History
- Still Travels
- Gaia, a way of knowing
- Gaia, a way of knowing
- The imagination of an insurrection, Dublin, Easter, 1916
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 14
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,861x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 52,630x
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 52,080x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,803x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,507x
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Quotes
- “There's been a kind of shift with the new electronic media away from education as a social glue that holds multicultural, diverse immigrant society together, to the state of entertainment. People are basically receiving their information in abstract, disembodied forms, whether its Internet or its World Wide Web or television or the rest of it. And with that has come a kind of dumbing down; there's a lack of emotional commitment to education.”
- “The interface between an industrial economy and the biosphere is what the industrial nation state can’t handle. So the new culture isn't based on nation state turf; it's based on biological, ecological processes, so the atmosphere is more the model than the land. And the science that would describe the processes of the atmosphere are more the new complex dynamical sciences, chaotic systems of clouds, rather than the clods.”
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