by Charles Cameron | Aug 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — insight — from the artistic eye via the ayat of the Qur’an and poetic and scientific “readings” to the craft of intelligence analysis ] . You might think this was an image taken from some art book by EH Gombrich...
by Charles Cameron | May 28, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — following a lead from Adam Elkus, a little more on the (Hindu) theological side of the Trinity test ] . ** WHen Oppenheimer saw the first nuclear fireball — apart from those supposedly recorded in legend, the sun in the sky, and...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 30, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles and Emlyn Cameron — my thousandth ZP post, and his first — in which my son schools me in making my games more responsive to the requirements of decision-support ] . Alexander Calder, "Yellow Sail", 1950, Weatherspoon Art Museum,...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 29, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the warnings, the lack of response, the tragedy, and a diagnosis of the underlying, near-universal human condition ] . Devastation wrought by the Lesser Sludge, Snohomish County, WA, March 2014 ** Hear ye! Hear ye! The most stunning...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — from intuitive leap to confirmation in a celebrated paper by neurophysiologist and cybernetician Warren McCulloch ] . As I mentioned in my earlier post, Close reading, Synoptic- and Sembl-style, for parallels, patterns, there are times...