We checked our post office box yesterday and found a letter from New York City. The return address was on Riverside Drive. It was a note from the illustrator, Chris Raschka. We had written him a letter thanking him for allowing us to use one of his illustrations as a logo.
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Commercial use of Cognitive Edge methodology
Yesterday I got a tweet from David Snowden with two links on a new implementation of the SenseMaker software and related methodology of narrative collection. The Brook Besor Consultants have been gearing ourselves up for using both in our evaluation work on the NIH grant to Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach.
The software was designed originally [...]
New look for Brook Besor Consultants
We are excited. We just received permission from Chris Raschka to use one of his copyrighted illustrations as a logo for our company, The Brook Besor Consultants, Inc. We asked if we could use his hands reaching toward one another from the book, Skin Again with text by bell hooks. We’re fans of Mr Raschka. [...]
A video story of “the boy who harnessed the wind,” William Kamkwamba
is on YouTube. William Kamkwamba was 14-years-old when he built his first windmill from a picture in a library book. Thanks to David Brush and Fast Church for their Tweets on this inspirational story of a young man in Malawi.
Apple’s mac & os x used by cognitive-edge folks
Last week at this time I and a bunch of us were winging our way to Raleigh for a three-day Cognitive Edge course on complexity and sense-making. The company has been started by a couple of ex-IBMers and does extensive contract consulting with large corporations and governments. They work with our defense and agriculture departments, [...]
Frank Smith’s Learners’ Manifesto
The irritating, provocative Frank Smith included the manifesto on Page 62 of his book, Insult to Intelligence. It struck me as relevant when I first read it and I’ve had a copy posted on my bulletin boards ever since. It is not perfect and there are a couple of points with which I quibble. Nonetheless, [...]
“Even the scientist’s eye is not innocent”- Hermeneutics & the natural sciences
What we see is shaped by what we believe, or what we want to believe. Here’s a look at making “science” with hermeneutics in the forefront. These paragraphs are on Page 327 in Kevin Vanhoozer’s First Theology: God, Scripture & Hermeneutics (Downers Grove, Il: InterVarsity Press, 2002).
The extension of hermeneutics beyond its original home in [...]
chalk up a “win” for linux as well as the West Point cadets
From Monday’s Slashdot discussions:
Hugh Pickens writes “A team of Army cadets spent four days at West Point last week struggling around the clock to keep a computer network operating while hackers from the National Security Agency tried to infiltrate it with methods that an enemy might use. The NSA made the cadets’ task more difficult [...]
The crisis of credit explained in infographics
This is from this morning’s Radar post (http://radar.oreilly.com). I was so taken with it I just had t0 repeat it here:
The Crisis of Credit explained in Infographics– a great 10m movie explaining the whole disaster from cash to crash, with an infographic-meets-Flash-game feel to it. This is the future of educational films. I’ve embedded it [...]
Okay, okay. I’ll get rid of some books, Martha
This by David Dalla Venezia. One of his pictures is used as the cover for Ray Pawson book, Evidence-based Policy: A Realist Perspective (London: SAGE, 2006). I picked it up today to reread some passages. Pawson included some links to Venezia’s work and I saw this. It captures what others have described and what I’ve [...]