Center for Strategic Communication

Today’s DoubleQuotes 1: in the wild

[ 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...

Of literal and metaphorical readings

[ by Charles Cameron — from “whistleblowers” via the interpretation of hadith to Aztec sacrifice and Christian Eucharist ] . Whistleblowing in Thailand (upper panel, above), which I wrote about in my previous post, is a literal matter, and whistles...

Gladwell on Waco and worldviews

[ by Charles Cameron — in hope that improved mutual understanding across a range of conflict situations will provide some viable alternatives to needlessly violent solutions ] . ** Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article published in the New Yorker at the end of last...

Leap Worlds: my 3QD attempt

[ by Charles Cameron — another runup to the glass bead game ] . Below you can read my submission to the wonderful 3 Quarks Daily “web aggregator” site as a candidate to join their regular Monday blogging team — it didn’t even make their...