by Charles Cameron | Nov 21, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — glimpsing the Necker Cube effect, when the weapons of war meet the prayers of peace ] . Necker cube image credit — youramazingbrain.org . A while back I co-authored a book with a physician friend, Cleaves Bennett MD, on the control...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 16, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on the difficulties that may be posed when “reading” graphics ] . ** The question I want to ask in this post is: how much can you safely read into a political cartoon? Here is the particular cartoon I have in mind: It was...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 10, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — now the election dust has settled, let’s hear it for Nate Silver, Megyn Kelly, Zeynep Tufekci and xkcd ] . . I’m about as Qualit as you can get on the Qualit vs Quant side of things, and if I had a bête grise, it might well be...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 26, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — two forms of creativity: far out and close in ] . . Some of the most obvious things aren’t obvious at all, until you think of them. The things my friend Derek Robinson talks about as being in the beforeground. Too close to notice /...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 12, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — numbers as analytic categories, one, self-reference ] . Is that a self-eating watermelon? Not exactly. It’s the ourobouros, the serpent in many mythologies which eats its own tail… ** The thing about one is that it’s...
