Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: "The Revolving Boy" - and Girls 'one day soon'?

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Friday, December 11, 2015

"The Revolving Boy" - and Girls 'one day soon'?

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group

"Derv soon discovers that he has an extraordinary sense of direction: he is also acutely uncomfortable unless he is able to "unwind" before going to bed each night the number of times he has turned during the day. Some of all this he understands when he learns how he had been born - weightless - in space. But it is not until a friendly teacher gains the family's confidence and takes him to a group of scientists that he begins to fathom the true explanation of his unique capabilities." (sleeve notes, 1967).

space medicine, birth in space,
 radiation sources,
DNA-RNA,
safety, low Earth orbit, high Earth orbit, weightlessness, microgravity, birth,
conception, speculation,
sex in space: apogee-perigee?
Why? Love?
Newton's Laws of Motion?
Einstein: Line of Sight?
"Where there's a will...."
 minerals, growth - development,
bones, diet, mobility,
space-Earth: 'Home'?
Species - Homo ?


Book cover: Friedberg, The Revolving Boy, 1967
human rights, unborn child,
guardianship,
non-nationality: Citizen of the World,
parenthood,
friendship
freedom
choice
Law:
Individual:Group
Earth challenges:
Space & Antarctica Treaties...
'top and tail' - Arctic




Additional links:

Sagan, C. (1973) Communication With Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Ceti). M.I.T. Press.

Vakoch, D.A. (ed.) (2011) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence, New York: NY, State University of New York Press.

Ack. Thanks to my friend Paul Brown who told me about this book c.1973.