"Moon Fever"

Individual

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      INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC  --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

 SOCIOLOGY  :    POLITICAL 

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Group

"It still holds the key to madness ...	still controls the tides that  lap on shores everywhere ...
still guards the lovers who kiss ...	in every land under no banner but the sky."                                           E.B. White

Gleick, James. Moon Fever, The New York Review of Books, August 15 - September 25, 2019. LXVI, 13. pp.54-58.
(I knew I was saving this for a reason!)

Image: Viewfinder: 'I want! I want!' (1793) by William Blake

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01171/arts-graphics-2006_1171649a.jpg

The astrolabe, programming and big pictures

The astrolabe was a
mechanical implementation of
an object-orientation
model of the sky. p.47.

Eric Evans, (2009). Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software, Model-Driven Design. Addison-Wesley.


Image source: http://planetariubm.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/femei-celebre-in-istoria-astronomiei-1/

Northern Skies: Comet Holmes in outburst

If you've dark skies (and even if you are under urban skies) look out for Comet Holmes, which has brightened suddenly:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071026.html

See also an animated Astronomy Picture of the Day

More to follow in 2008!

What Complex Threads We Weave

Two thoughts spring to mind when I look at h2cm's axes - INDIVIDUAL-GROUP and HUMANISTIC-MECHANISTIC. I wonder where they end and what does where mean exactly?

These questions prompted the combination of the model's axes and the care domains into a 5th domain: the spiritual. Could there be another view of this? Is it sensible to consider that a care concept lies at certain point on the individual axis for example? How does this relate to the mechanistic axis? Maybe this asks too much of what is a model to simplify complexity? Do these axes run-off forever? Do they join up at infinity?

When we think of 'where' we tend to think in concrete (literally) terms. But where are you on this image?

Although this marvellous picture of the analemma helps extend our (physical) notions of where, this photo has its limits in that it captures the view from a certain latitude (a specific context). There are others. Our Earth bound sense of place takes on S-N-E-W, but if we travel far enough ....?

The mobius strip is an object of delight.

Perhaps unknowingly we are all topologists...

Happy equinox! WherEVER you are.

(Holistic care 2 will follow - time wise having to rely on draft post bank)
Analemma image credit: Anthony Ayiomamitis