For most of its being, mankind did not know what things are made of, but could only guess. With the growth of worldken, we began to learn, and today we have a beholding of stuff and work that watching bears out, both in the workstead and in the daily life.
Minglingken is mixing knowledge. In one sense, probably the sense meant by the Poul Anderson essay excerpted above, minglingken means chemistry, the science of how atoms and molecules mix. My own personal expertise is chemical engineering and biotechnology, but my interests are so much broader – from organic chemistry to microbiology and geology to engineering and public policy.
The goal is that minglingken will also come to carry a more general meaning: a place for others with similarly narrow expertise but broad interests to come to share (and test) what they know. Only time will tell how well we can advance this goal.
The opinions I espouse here are mine and mine alone. Nothing I write here represents the official position of any other individual. Neither does it represent the official position of any institution or professional society, regardless of any affiliations I may have in other spheres of my professional life.
