by Charles Cameron | Jul 24, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — at least three ways of looking at a pair of tweets ] . If there can be Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, there are at least three or four ways of looking at these two tweets: The similarities are eerie, the differences are enormous....
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jul 18, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeWherever I was posted during my quirky tenure with U.S.I.A., my colleagues and I had to take an annual inventory of all our equipment. It was time-consuming and boring and we grumbled a lot, but the result was worthwhile: we knew what we had and...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 1, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — tasking Heuer’s ACH theory with the old question of revelation vs scientific discovery? ] . For a very pithy take on the pivotal question facing those who adhere to the literal interpretation of a given scripture as God’s...
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 | May 3, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — fascinated to see the uses others make of the juxtapositions I call “DoubleQuotes” ] . This first one was suggested to me by Scott Shipman as a “match” for my DQ about Von Karman’s mathematics of flow in...