Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: thermodynamics

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Showing posts with label thermodynamics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thermodynamics. Show all posts

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Radiating mechismo...

soul - self - person - individual - person - body - systems - organs - tissues - cells - atp ...
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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dyad ... family - group - community - population - Gaia::Earth - Cosmos


Blush




 

"Blush is a radiator by Icelandic designer Thorunn Arnadottir that is covered in thermochromatic paint and both looks like and simulates capillaries. She says, 'Blush is a very important organ of the house. Regulates the temperature and keeps it warm and alive. Blue when cold, but blushes with red when warm.'"

https://laughingsquid.com/blush-a-radiator-that-simulates-capillaries-blushes-red-when-warm/

 My Source:

IDN, 2012. Volume 19, NO. 3. 080.

See  also:

Book: The Vital Question


Monday, May 16, 2016

Information? Let me introduce you to Empathy! (New Scientist #3073)

This week's New Scientist asks the question: "What is Information?". Its neighbouring article is on empathy. I've bought a copy to add to my small library on 'information' (and its analogue?).

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ---------------------------------------  mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group
"I feel your pain." 
pp.32-35.

New Scientist: What Is Information? pp.28-31.






Battersby, S. (2016) The unseen agent. New Scientist, 230: 3073, 14 May, pp.28-31.

Young, E. (2016) I feel your pain. New Scientist, 230: 3073, 14 May, pp.32-35.