Center for Strategic Communication

Making Historical Analogies about 1914

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Independent has a short, quasi-sensationalist, article featuring historian Margaret MacMillan discussing what is likely to become the first pop academic cottage industry of 2014….making historical analogies about...

Jeff Jonas, Nada Bakos, Cindy Storer and Puzzles

[ by Charles Cameron — at the intersection of filmcraft, tradecraft, and gameplay ] . ** IBM Fellow Jeff Jones has a powerful insight into puzzles and analytics which I explored in one of my early guest posts here, A Hipbone Approach to Analysis III. I quoted...

The Abel Prize for a great Sembl move

[ by Charles Cameron — cross-posted from Sembl ] . You don’t have to be playing a Sembl or Hipbone game to make a great Sembl move — you just have to see a rich semblance between two concepts in (previously) widely separated fields of thought. Thus...

The cloak, mantle and authority of the Prophet

[ by Charles Cameron — the symbolic importance of Mullah Omar with the cloak of the Prophet, comparative, frankly long, and IMO worth it ] . Mullah Omar in Kandahar; Elijah & Elisha from the Nuremberg Chronicle. I would like to give you a sense of the...