ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Roy Lisker's Ferment Magazine</TITLE> </HEAD> <STYLE type="text/css"> <!-- .box {width: 600; text-align: justify; margin-left: 40} .emph {font-family=Arial, Espy Sans, Helvetica, SansSerif; font-size: large; color: black; font-style: bold} A:link {font-family=Arial, Espy Sans, Helvetica, SansSerif; color: darkblue; text-decoration : none; font-style: normal} A:active{text-decoration : none; background : transparent;} A:visited { background : transparent; text-decoration : none; } A:hover{ color: yellow; background:maroon;} --> </STYLE> <BODY BGCOLOR="blanchedalmond" LINK="darkblue" VLINK="darkblue"> <DIV class=box><P CLASS=emph> <H1 ALIGN="CENTER" style ="color:maroon">Ferment Magazine</H1> <H2 align ="center" style ="color:purple">Editor: Roy Lisker,PhD</H2><P> <img src="berkeley003.jpg"><P> <H2 align ="center" style="color:red">Welcome to the<br> Ferment Magazine Home Page</H2><h1 align="center"><A href="folders.html">Folders</A><P> <hr> </h1> <h4>This photograph of myself was taken by activist Gene Keyes, at the 50th Anniversary Reunion of the Committee for Non-Violent Action,held in Voluntown, Connecticut, June 11-13, 2010.<P><img src="voluntown.jpg"><P>For other photos of persons present at the reunion, several of whom are very famous in the anti-war movements of the 60's and since, go to <A href="http://www.genekeyes.com/CNVA/CNVA-Reunion-2010-p.2.html">CNVA</A><hr></h4> <h1 align ="center" style ="color:turquoise"> Bulletin Board</h1><h2 align ="center" style="color:green"><hr></h2> <h3 align ="center" style ="color:maroon">January 17,2012: A New Essay</h4><h4 align ="center"><A href="essays2/trees.html">A Rapture of Trees</A><hr></h4> <h4>The review of Roger Penrose's "Road to Reality" that has been on Ferment Magazine since 2006, has been replaced by the text of the version in the <I>Mathematics Intelligencer, Summer2006, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p61.</I> This version is better written and better edited, and owes much to the editorial guidance of Osmo Pekonen.</h4><h4 align ="center"><A href ="essays/penrose.pdf">pdf version</A><br><A href="essays/penrose.docx">docx version</A><hr>Placed on Ferment Magazine December 14, 2011<br><A href="essays/bbchamlet.html">Gregory Doran's Hamlet</A><br>Notes on the BBC2 2009 Production</OL> <hr></h4> <h4 style ="color:red">(2)August 12,2011: A file describing my numerous fool-hardy antics around the "Novelists of the Americas" symposium at the University of Colorado in September 1992, may now be read at</h4><h3 align ="center"> <A href="Bio4/Boulder92.html">Boulder 1992</A><hr></h3><h4 style = "color:green">(3)The first two installments of a report on the Evariste Galois bicentenary conference at the Institut Poincar&#233,October 24-28, 2011, can now be read at:</h4><h3 align ="center"> <A href="Galois/GaloisI1.html">(1)A Visit to the Institut de France, October 19</A><br> <A href="Galois/Galois2.html">(2) Monday Oct 24: Opening Ceremonies</A><br> <A href="Galois/Galois3.html">(3)October 25-28</A></h3><h4> <hr> I do appreciate it when someone notifies me to report a broken link. I welcome all forms of communication that correspond to any enlightened definition of sanity.<P> For the background to the on-going debate about the right to call myself <I>Dr.</I> Roy Lisker, go to</h4><h4 align="center"> <A href="cass.html">Council of Autonomous Scholarly Support</A><P>(<I>I am sometimes at a loss to decide the field in which my degree has been earned. My latest choice is "Doctor of Apeironology" (Doctor of Infinity Studies)</I>) <hr> </h4> <h2 align ="center"><A href="citations.html">Endorsements and Cavils</A></h1><h4><hr></h4> </h5> <h4 align ="center" style="color:red">This website is made possible through the<br> active support and encouragement of<br> <img src="benjamin.jpg"><br> <A href="http://www.smullyan.org">Jacob Smullyan and family: <br>Anne-Marie, Benjamin, Jeremy and Gabriel</A><br>(These names overlap but are not co-extensive with the persons in the picture) <hr></h4><h3 align="center"><A href="earnings.html">Financial Statement 1955-2005</A><hr></h3> <h2 align="center" style ="color:green"> New Editorial</h2><h3 align ="center">January 24,2012<A href="Editorial2010/edit9.html"><br>Don't Let Us Down, President Obama!</A><hr></h3> <h2 align="center" style ="color:maroon" >New Science Editorial</h2><h3 align ="center">March 26,2011<br> <A href="Editorial2010/sciedit12.html">Astronomy for the Masses:Building Telescopes in North Korea</A><hr></h3> <H3 align ="center" style ="color:purple"><A href="Consultant.html">Mathematics Consultant for the Arts and Humanities</A><hr></h3> <h4 style ="color:green">This photograph of me was taken in the winter of 2000. As president of the <I>Middletown North End Action Team</I>. I was doing my part in cleaning up the grounds of what has since become the neighborhood's pride and joy:</h4><h3 align ="center"><A href="http://www.neatmiddletown.org">The North End Community Garden.</A></H3><h4 align ="center" style ="color:green"> <img src ="garden.jpg" align ="absmiddle"><P> A report on the 8-year struggle of the North End Action Team to obtain decent living conditions for the residents of Middletown's North End, may now be read at</h4><h3 align ="center" style ="color:maroon"><A href="NEAT/nehi1.html">History of the North End Housing Initiative</A></h3><h4 align ="center"> <HR></h4><H2 align ="center" style="color:red">A Life in Pictures:<br> Ages 2 to 70<P><A href="Photobiography/lpictures.html">Photographs of the Author</A><hr></H2> <h2 align="center"><A href="newsletter.html">Ferment Newsletter</A><hr></h2><h3 align ="center" style="color:green"> Browse the<br><A href="catalogue.html">Ferment Press Catalogue</A><hr></h3> <h3 align="center" style ="color:purple" >Address and E-Mail</h3><h4 align="center" style ="color:maroon">Roy Lisker<br>8 Liberty Street#306<br>Middletown, CT 06457<br><A href="mailto:rlisker@yahoo.com">rlisker@yahoo.com</A></UL> <HR></H4> <H3 align="center"><A href="home2.html">Editorials</A><br> <A href="home3.html">Travelogue/Biography</A><br> <A href="home4.html">Ferment Press</A><br> <A href="home6.html">Links</A> <HR> </h3><H3 style ="color:indianred;text-align:center;font-style:italic">Go To<br><A href ="home2.html">Editorials</A></H3><HR> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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