"Since in his book The Selfish Gene (1976) Richard Dawkins coined the term" meme "was born memetics, the science that studies the mode of transmission of ideas from mind to mind. Dawkins, on the basis of some experiments in chemical laboratories, on the assumption that on Earth, before the advent of life, there were only water, anidride carbonica, metano e ammoniaca, ossia composti semplici che, traendo energia da fenomeni naturali, quali scariche elettriche o luce del sole, hanno dato origine a molecole più complesse sciolte in una sorta di brodo, chiamato brodo primordiale". Questa la premessa della recensione all’ultimo libro di Roberto Vacca, " Memi ", nel numero di giugno della rivista Il Punto , brillante house organ della Scuola d'Impresa della Facoltà di Ingegneria (Università di Roma, Tor Vergata). Come vedete, è confermata la mia famosa tesi – rivoluzionaria solo nell’Italia levantina, pseudo-letteraria e provinciale delle nullità che si danno importanza coi paroloni – secondo where people really educated and intelligent, if not draw up a scientific study and are addressed to the profane, written with simple words and style, which is precisely an ability further, the layman.
But we continue to read the article draws a few sentences in the history of the "primordial soup" that is, no less, the origin of life on Earth. "The molecules were then differentiated between them, also through mutations: thus were born as we know the genes, molecules almost immortal, as transmitted from a mother cell to daughter cells and in the case of more complex organisms, from parents to children, along the generations to come. The unit of transmission della vita, o per meglio dire di sopravvivenza, è quindi il gene, che è stato capace di costruire delle vere e proprie "macchine di sopravvivenza" al solo scopo di propagarsi e sopravvivere tra le quali quella umana è la sola a essere dominata dalla cultura e influenzata da idee apprese e trasmesse.
E’ singolare che il termine "meme" sia stato coniato da uno zoologo che si occupa di etologia, ma lo è ancora di più se viene usato da un ingegnere elettronico, docente, tra le tante altre attività, di Automazione del Calcolo e di Computer, ingegneria dei sistemi, gestione totale della qualità presso le Università di Roma e Milano.
Memi è, infatti, il titolo dell’ultima opera di Roberto Vacca, completed in April 2010. In the preface reads: "Tale as I have been and are still in touch with special people I've known: teachers, friends who taught me science, theories, common sense approach, inventiveness, humor, arts, attitudes, and a bit 'of wisdom [...] And because I write these pages? I think I push a meme which became implanted in my mind many years ago during my training: "Learn new things and teach [...] This is a book of my exercises learn to form effective policies. "
There are many anecdotes and many teachers are mentioned: his father John, hardened mathematician (just 17 years invented the magic square) devotee and scholar of religion (the place of discussion for excellence in home Vacca) and Chinese culture, the mother of Virginia where the writer writes, "was a remarkable person. He published his last book when she was 91 years, lover and student of languages foreign and Islamic religion, while his sister, now ottantottenne and resident in Wales and his two wives.
But in addition to the family, Roberto Vacca, recalls many other teachers: Paolo Vita Finzi, first known through his writings and then personally, Wolf Gross, called the "master of masters" and known all'INAC, Primo Levi, to which author 'sent his first manuscript, Alfred M. Kerzner, master of industrial and financial management. But Arnaldo Maria Angelini, a professor of Electrical Machines and first employer, Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, a proponent of "Bring out what you have inside," String Luigi, Mario Lucidi and numerous anecdotes, first to all the wonderful, in my view, intervention in At the show "Porta a Porta" on the miracle of the Madonna of Civitavecchia. A book full, passionate, intense, full of insights on current topics: religion, moral, spiritual, human relations and communication.
A curiosity worth noting: the book can not be purchased in the bookstore to get it ... you need to contact the author via mc4634@mclink.it . Why read it? Why does not disappoint Roberto Vacca ever, because the book contains answers to possible questions, I dare say, from a human universal, because in the communication chaos that surrounds us, the author skillfully manages to teach us how to recognize the messages from those deserving poor and inefficient. "
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JAZZ. An overwhelming passage of the great orchestra of the greatest theoretician and exponent of the style of Big Band, Fletcher Henderson. This is an engraving of 1927 (2:58): Hop Off .
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