by Graham Cotter | Jun 20, 2011
Gregory Bateson was a noted anthropologist who later became very interested in the theory of communications. In the 1950’s one of his teaching assignments was with psychiatric residents at a mental hospital in California. His first assignment to his students was to...
by Graham Cotter | Jun 6, 2011
”The Large Hadron Collider, the latest-generation subatomic-particle accelerator, goes online later this year…on the Franco-Swiss border.” So we are told by Richard Panek in his article “Out There” (New York Times Magazine, March 11, 2007). And if the attendant...
by Graham Cotter | Jun 6, 2011
On the weekend of May 27-29, 2011, I enjoyed celebrating years of graduation (in my case, 65) with many college friends, and among them I met Thomas Cotton. On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Thomas Cotton wrote: Graham: as a student of history and quite superficially...
by Graham Cotter | May 30, 2011
We are always forgetting things - and then trying to remember. How do we try to remember? we scrabble around trying to connect something we know with the name or date or person we can’t remember. Then usually we give up, or take a rest, “Sleep on...
by Graham Cotter | May 15, 2011
“JESUS is Lord!” “Lift High The Cross!” These slogans stir me throughout my being. But my mind clicks in, to remember the people who have been forced to proclaim the first, or the people for whom the high-lifted cross was a banner of war and oppression. There is a...
by Graham Cotter | May 14, 2011
“All, or nothing at all,” whined the crooners of our youth: love was demanded fully, no holding back. And this call still goes out in different words from the Storm Troopers of religion, and we are told that if we strip off even a glove or a handkerchief from our...
