Whole Earth Index

Whole Earth Review, Summer 1986

“This text tries to explain how minds work. How can intelligence emerge from non-intelligence? To answer that, I’ll show that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.”

Sections:
  1. Features
  2. Departments/Reviews
Whole Earth Review, Summer 1986
  1. FEATURES
      1. Dehiscence by Sallie Tisdale
        1
      2. Society Of Mind by Marvin Minsky
        4
      3. Constructing Peace As A Whole System by Mark Sommer
        12
      4. Credit, Debt And Cultural Miniaturization Interview with Paul Hawken
        24
      5. Decommissioning: Nuclear Power’s Missing Link by Cynthia Pollock
        28
      6. Resurrecting Elms by Ken Textor
        38
      7. Traditional Drought And Uncommon Famine In The Sahel by David Tenenbaum
        44
      8. Home Economics by Wendell Berry
        50
      9. Not An Easy Choice by Kathleen McDonnell
        50
      10. Not Killing by Robert Aitken
        63
      11. The Consequences Of Treating The Fetus As A Human Being edited by Kevin Kelly
        64
      12. Backscatter About The Farm
        78
      13. A Commune That Works, So Far by Kathleen Kinkade
        80
      14. Jury Duty: Would You Serve Or Would You Hide? initiated by Joe Troise on The WELL
        88
      15. Mediation by Jake Warner
        91
      16. The Go-Between by Gary J. Friedman
        94
      17. The Lighter Side Of Being Paralyzed For Life cartoon by John Callahan
        96
      18. Navigating Computer Networks by Art Kleiner
        102
      19. Small Town Wages by Lance Tapley
        116
      20. What’s New With You? by David Greenberger
        122
      21. Egyptian Siege by Philip Stewart
        124
      22. Clams On The Lam cartoon by Peter Aschwanden
        145
  2. DEPARTMENTS/REVIEWS
    1. WHOLE SYSTEMS
      1. Archaeology
        11
      2. Biblical Archaeology Review
        11
      3. National Security Through Civilian-Based Defense
        20
      4. Making Europe Unconquerable
        20
      5. Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament Measures
        20
      6. Environment and Conflict
        21
      7. Beyond the Bomb
        21
      8. The World Atlas of Revolutions
        22
      9. Balance of Power
        22
      10. The Biosphere Catalog
        23
      11. Scanning Nature
        23
      12. Filters Against Folly
        27
    2. LAND USE
      1. Landscape Ecology
        36
      2. Color In Your Garden
      3. Tools For Agriculture
        37
      4. Briefbook: Biotechnology and Genetic Diversity
        37
      5. The Herb Gardener’s Resource Guide
        37
      6. A Citizen’s Handbook on Groundwater Protection
        42
      7. Waterlines
        42
      8. Troubled Water
        42
      9. U.S. Water News
        43
      10. International Dams Newsletter
        43
      11. Casa del Agua
        43
      12. Conserving Water: The Untapped Solution
        43
      13. Africa in Crisis
        49
      14. Africa News
        49
    3. HEALTH
      1. You Can Have a Baby
        57
      2. The New No-Pill, No-Risk Birth Control
        57
      3. What Sort of People Should There Be?
        71
      4. New Conceptions
        71
      5. Birth & Life Bookstore
        72
      6. Having a Baby Without a Man
        72
      7. The Tentative Pregnancy
        72
      8. Childbirth Graphics
        73
      9. TIPS
        73
      10. Family Planning Perspectives
        74
      11. The Rubber Tree
        74
      12. Recombinant DNA
        74
      13. Sex selection
        74
      14. Understanding DNA and Gene Cloning
        75
      15. Over the Hill
        76
      16. On Food and Cooking
        76
      17. Exercisewalking
        77
      18. WalkWays
        77
    4. COMMUNITY
      1. Communities
        86
      2. Community Referral Service
        86
      3. Builders of the Dawn
        86
      4. The Road Less Traveled
        87
      5. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
        87
      6. Mediation Quarterly
        95
      7. The Community Conflict Resolution Training Manual
        95
      8. The Mediation Process
        95
    5. COMMUNICATIONS
      1. 2600
        105
      2. Knowing Where to Look
        98
      3. Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary
        98
      4. No Sense of Place
        98
      5. Radio Renaissance
        99
      6. American Pictures
        100
      7. America
        100
      8. Good Movies by Sheila Benson
        101
      9. Out of the Inner Circle
        105
      10. On Cassette
        106
      11. Laser Disc Newsletter
        106
      12. Disc Deals
        106
      13. U.S. Video Source
        106
    6. NOMADICS
      1. Practical Traveler
        107
      2. So... You Want to Be An Innkeeper
        107
      3. Australia: Where Being Alternative Isn’t So Radical by Bird Brenner
        108
    7. SOFT TECHNOLOGY
      1. Folding Bikes
        112
      2. Portable Boats
        112
      3. Logan Hand Matcutters
        113
      4. Threads
        113
    8. LIVELIHOOD
      1. The Secrets of Consulting
        114
      2. Shattered Dreams
        115
      3. Buying and Selling a Small Business
        115
      4. SuperRom
        115
    9. LEARNING
      1. Sabremetrics: A Baseball Way of Knowledge by Steven Levy
        118
      2. The Hidden Game of Baseball
        119
      3. The Baseball Encyclopedia
        119
      4. APBA Major League Baseball
        120
      5. Hardball
        120
      6. Microleague
        120
      7. Rotisserie League Baseball
        121
      8. Baseball America
        121
      9. Major League Monthly
        121
    10. BACKSCATTER
      1. Echoes from readers back to WER
        126
    11. GATE FIVE ROAD
      1. Gossip: A Short History of the First 50 Issues of CoEvolution Quarterly and Whole Earth Review
        128
      2. How This Magazine is Made
        130
      3. How Whole Earth Review Gets To Readers
        135
      4. Your Mailing Label: A Short Course
        137
      5. Recent WER mailing list renters
        137
      6. “Or Whole Earth Access”
        138
      7. Back Issues/Further Issues
        138
      8. Thank You!
        139
      9. Financial Report
        140
      10. Truth in Labeling: The Financial Report Deciphered
        140
      11. Masthead
        141
      12. Unclassifieds
        141
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