Talk:Iben Browning

message: As of the 19th of Nov 2008 the article starts by stating he was born in England, then in the next paragraph says he was born in Edna Texas. In April 2006 this article was a non-stub that didn't discuss his birthplace; then on 10th of April 2007 "a relative" changed the article to a stub lacking a great deal of details. By January 2008 it was "rewritten" bringing back text from the old article and aparently this [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
res=9D0CE5DA1F38F933A15754C0A967958260&sec=&spon= NYT.com obituary] on the 20th of April 2008 it was randomly interjected that he was born in England. Actually the linked obit. states he was born in Texas, thefore I will edit this article to remove the other claim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.254.120.236 (talk) 04:53, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The preponderance of the facts is with you and against the New York Times's fact checkers; Browning himself (in Robots on Your Doorstep) describes himself as growing up in Texas, though it's not absolutely disprobative of his having been born in England and brought to Texas by his parents.  But fact checkers these days are often lazy and use the Internet, which opens the possibility that a NYT staffer pulled the wrong "Iben Browning"'s obituary up on the Net. loupgarous (talk) 18:19, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

text: just searched "Iben Browning" in the New York Times' Web site and found this article 
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/20/obituaries/iben-browning-73-researcher-studied-climate-and-quakes.html giving his birthplace as Edna, Texas. loupgarous (talk) 18:26, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthplace 

message: Why is it "astounding" that a large earthquake can occur so far inland? Earthquakes are caused by the shift of geological plates and have nothing to do with proximity to the shoreline... right?
Yes, it should not be that it is inland, but distant from a tectonic boundary. The fact that the New Madrid Earthquakes occured inland had little to do with their astounding qualities (think of inland earthquakes in India), however, because the area where the earthquake occured had older, colder bedrock than coastal California, the Earthquake was able to propogate much farther than an equivalent EQ on the San Andreas Fault. JKillah 14:33, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Astounding? 

message: In the paperback book Robots on Your Doorstep (Iben Browning and Nels Winkless, Robotics Press, Albequerque NM, 1978) Dr. Browning described an ambitious scheme for categorizing human learning called the Anlage of Human Knowledge, as an illustration of how robotics, biology and medicine are contextually related.  There is a set of schematic diagrams of the Anlage of Human Knowledge in the book which is valuable in and of itself, because it shows how Browning related the entire body of human learning as a compact three-dimensional structure.
I have a copy of Robots on Your Doorstep.  Can we reproduce the line drawing depicting the Anlage of Human Knowledge for this article and a related one specifically on the Anlage of Human Knowledge, or would it be permissible to create a new drawing reproducing the Anlage?  I think it would be good encyclopedic content to reproduce and make available Dr. Browning's addition to the systematization of human knowledge. loupgarous (talk) 00:34, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't believe you can do either, both would be copyright violations. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:56, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Browning's "Anlage of Human Knowledge" - permissible under "fair use" to reproduce the drawing illustrating the Anlage's structure?