From: "jeffrey E." <[email protected]> To: David Grosof < Subject: Re: USVI Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 21:11:19 —0000 no i hve not , note the crows are also black :) On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:10 PM, David Grosof < > wrote: That reminds me....Have you stayed abreast of Robert Sapolsky's research and writing (baboons and people, mostly, but informed by other social animals, like New Caledonian crows)? d. On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 10:58 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: blacks turn into chimps. its amazing to see On The, Sep 12, 2017 at 7:54 PM, David Grosof < wrote: Thank you. As you undoubtedly noticed, there's a standard script for reports oflooting': describing white people as requisitioning supplies in an emergency and describing non-white people as looters (especially if they're at the jewelry store and not the supermarket...). Rebecca Solnit (a SF-based lefty whose influence has soared after 11/9) researched and wrote an interesting book on how well and spontaneously many groups of people behave after disasters. It makes anarchism, on a small scale, seem a lot more plausible. But this article you sent has a level of texture and detail that makes me truly concerned about what will happen in another couple of days, especially if roads and phone communication stay so poor that MREs and data cannot move. The 'survival mode' in quotes in the headline will be replaced with survival mode, not in quotes.... Do you have any idea what happened to your staff and how they are doing? d.. PS Solar-powered batteries and ham radio (in portable rigs) clearly ought to be more deployed in the Caribbean. On The, Sep 12, 2017 at 2:49 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: hups://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/us/virgin-islands-irma.html On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:17 AM, David Grosof < > wrote: If you can stand an emoji: Q d. On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:05 PM, jeffrey E. [email protected]> wrote: Better than being married . Or simila