Archive for the ‘Models and Metaphors’ Category

July 13, 2011 0

Downside Up

By in Models and Metaphors, Science

I don’t know about ya’ll but I think we’re in the middle of a big change. It’s as if for the last 1000 years we’ve been looking for the smallest possible answer to solve everything. Post-modernism didn’t change a thing. We’re still looking for the main point; the true meaning; the vaccine.

February 23, 2011 0

Cultural Ground Zero

By in Articles of Culture, Models and Metaphors, Seeing Our World

When I was growing up in Schenectady, New York, my mother would ask me to attend her symphony orchestra concerts. She played the flute. With the request, she would add, mockingly, “You need to get yourself some ‘culcha.’” I had no idea who or what she was mocking, but growing up in the 60s and [...]