Center for Strategic Communication

Sunday surprise

[ by Charles Cameron — fun and games — as if you’ll ever really catch me doing much else ] . I like to do something a little special on Sundays, to keep Zen and his readers amused in the absence of legitimate work. The “animated .gif”...

Geometry aka logic as an analytic tool

[ by Charles Cameron — reflections on cognitive empowerment by selective noticing ] . . I just realized that I take notice of details at the level of “geometry aka logic” which I would miss if I were more focused on content. In effect, I treat...

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...

Don’t ask me — I’m a Qualit!

[ by Charles Cameron — Christmas pudding UK circa 1950, math, banks, and moral authority ] . . As I recall, the plum pudding served in our family on Christmas day was not only rich in raisins, sultanas, currants and candied peel, it not only had brandy poured...

Unequal equations

[ 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…...