“Seeing is believing”: an approach to life that works well in many endeavours, including mechanical engineering, fishing, and perhaps dating. It’s also good, apparently, for residents of Missouri. But it doesn’t make for good science. Science is not just about seeing, it’s about measuring, preferably with something that’s not your eyes, which are inextricably conjoined […]
Symbols are inventions
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer who has published 58 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction
The Politics of Natural Disasters by Daniel Aldrich
This paper was published in June 2012, well prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. This summary quote is lengthy, very academic, and insightful. Mentally extending the findings stated below to our current global health disaster and future global warming disasters is useful as it implies realtime and future reaction at many societal levels. Art Hunter, CACOR […]
Partnership in all science …
Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party. Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure—but the state ought […]
Open to Uncertainty
We need leadership that is open to uncertainty, acknowledges an unknowable future, and fosters processes to adapt and create policies and institutions that are robust and fit for purpose in a rapidly evolving world. Robert Hoffman, Principal, Founder, whatIf? Technologies, Inc. Observation made at CaCOR’s Zoom presentation, 2020 June 3