QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Mentioned in Trimtab Book Club
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Mentioned in Trimtab Book Club
Talking Circles
This topic came up during Trimtab Book Club today, 1 February 2025.
During one-third of a century of experimental work, I have been operating on the philosophic premise that all thoughts and all experiences can be translated much farther than just into words and abstract thought patterns.
This experiment is a digital research library for R. Buckminster Fuller and his ideas.
Created by Brett Elmendorf, a member of the Trimtab Book Club, as an extension of the group’s affinity for R. Buckminster Fuller, the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and Design Science Studio.
This experiment is a digital research library for R. Buckminster Fuller and his ideas.
Created by Brett Elmendorf, a member of the Trimtab Book Club, as an extension of the group’s affinity for R. Buckminster Fuller, the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and Design Science Studio.
Shared by Curt McNamara with the Trimtab Book Club
We are meeting Siobhan Roberts in our Trimtab Book Club today.
A Fuller Explanation
The Hidden History of the Geodesic Dome - Part 3: The Teamwork of Walter Gropius
The Hidden History of the Geodesic Dome - Part 3: The Teamwork of Walter Gropius
Understanding one’s limitations leads to a recognition of the power of relationships in an interconnected and interdependent world.
Because of his handicap, Walter Gropius achieved his goals by working through other people, and harnessed their abilities to produce efficient and practical architecture.
Understanding one’s limitations leads to a recognition of the power of relationships in an interconnected and interdependent world.
Alicia Boole Stott
Alicia was the only Boole sister to inherit the mathematical career of her parents, although her mother Mary Everest Boole had brought up all of her five children from an early age 'to acquaint them with the flow of geometry' by projecting shapes onto paper, hanging pendulums etc. She was first exposed to geometric models by her brother-in-law Charles Howard Hinton when she was 17, and developed the ability to visualise in a fourth dimension. She found that there were exactly six regular polytopes in four dimensions and that they are bounded by 5, 16 or 600 tetrahedra, 8 cubes, 24 octahedra or 120 dodecahedra.
Team syntegrity and democratic group decision making: theory and practice
Stafford Beer created Team Syntegrity as a methodology for social interaction that predisposes participants towards shared agreement among varied and sometimes conflicting interests, without compromising the legitimate claims and integrity of those interests. This paper outlines the methodology and the underlying philosophy, describing several applications in a variety of countries and contexts, indicating why such an approach causes us to re-think more traditional approaches to group decision processes, and relating Team Syntegrity to other systems approaches.
Shared by Kirby Urner in the Trimtab Book Club
Kirby Urner’s site on Synergetics
Lionel Wolberger, member of the Trimtab Book Club.
Daniel Friedman, a member of the Trimtab Book Club, is inviting people to be facilitators in Complexity Weekend.
Fuller’s Earth
The next book for the Trimtab Book Club.
Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD)
Shared by Curt McNamara with the Trimtab Book Club.