“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. […]
Tag: Soft Is Hard
Carmen Miranda and Her Hat
’The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat’: Carmen Miranda, a Spectacle of Ethnicity,” Shari Roberts, Cinema Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, Spring 1993, pp. 3–23. (http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1225876). (That’s an except from the article “Soft Is Hard,” Published in AIR 15:3.)
Booze: Business Benefits
“No Booze? You May Lose: Why Drinkers Earn More Money Than Nondrinkers” Bethany L. Peters and Edward Stringham, Journal of Labor Research, vol. 27, no. 3, Summer 2006, pp. 411–21(http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12122-006-1031-y). (Thanks to Kristine Danowski for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, who are respectively at Analysis Group, Dallas, Texas and at San Jose State […]
Nomenclature Quiz: Lure or Band?
Fish lures often have evocative names. So do rock bands. Can you discern or detect which of the following names belongs to a fish lure and which to a rock band? (You may find hints by consulting the published philosophical literature on the question “What’s in a name?” And you may not.) The answers appear […]