“Rich Pictures on the Path Towards Systemic Being,” Mark Campbell Williams, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, vol. 16, no. 4, July–August 1999, pp 369–73. The author, at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, explains: I interpret some of my own rich pictures from a five-year investigation of teaching reform in a university business computing course. […]
Month: September 2009
He got a prize; he’ll be a prize
Then, the phone really started ringing. It was a reporter from The A.P. who said she was in front of our apartment and wanted to get a picture of me. I said, “I’m in my pajamas.” She said, “That’s exactly the photo I want.” I said, “But you’re not going to get it.” —from Claudia […]
An opera NOT without risk
The image below shows a solicitation mailed to noted attorney William J. Maloney, who every year serves as the V-Chip Monitor in the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The solicitation advertises “3 RISK-FREE ISSUES” of the magazine Opera News. Ha. Mr. Maloney is not afraid of operatic risk. On Thursday night, October 1, he will play […]
A Crusade Against the Quest for the Holy Grail
EDITOR’S NOTE: The unusual format and to some degree the content of this article, including personal and even interpersonal commentary, reflects the persistent, entangled nature of the subject. Notes Of A Humble Grail Watcher Regarding New Hope On The Horizon, by Steve Nadis (“SN”) For the past 15 years, I’ve been tilting at windmills bearing […]