by Charles Cameron | Jun 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — nightmare of the cartographers ] . Let Yassin Musharbash have the first word: The #ISIS Narrative of eliminating the Sykes-Pikot-Borders? You have to admit: Good choice of a narrative. Resonates with many. #Mosul — yassin musharbash...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 16, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — still trying to cover some of the major feasts and fasts of the world’s religions in calendar time, which can open on occasion into timelessness — Chag Purim Sameach! ] . Jan Lievens, The Feast of Esther, ca 1625 From the North...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 1, 2014 | Monitor
[ posted by Charles Cameron — essentially a guest-post swiped from Cheryl Rofer ] . .Map credit: U Texas Perry-Casteñeda Library Map Collection ** Here is blog-friend Cheryl Rofer‘s latest update on Ukraine, for your reading interest: I’ve been...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 18, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — math, modeling and mapping, in that strange zone where beauty meets understanding ] . The upper equation — Euler‘s — gets as tight and definitional as one can get, yet is profound in the way the greatest haiku are…...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 8, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — not just “thinking outside the box” — how about upending the whole thing and seeing what shakes out? ] . FWIW, this isn't the world, nor is it upside down — it's just a rather different map, eh?. A...
