I'm going to take you to an old blog post (archival) in case you have an interest in this topic: Avogadro's Number.
American Literature replaced the BCC and SCP with the CCP in Transcendentalism, when representing "the holodeck" (archetype: land before time, firmament, matrix) before some schools of engineering even knew what that meant (not being crystallographers by training).
At CSN, we're into providing the best in "STEM reveries" meaning as you cram for that exam, over coffee, just staring into space, at one of our LCDs, may get you remembering Organic Chemistry.
We're not limited to "STEM reveries" by legal contract or deal, just that's an area of weakness in some Coffee Shops, which may tend to cater more to idle tourists or flaneurs as some prefer.
Hard-working eco-tourists are a different category entirely (not idle, for one thing).
If you've been following the Oregon Curriculum Network Youtube channel, one of mine, you'll see where I break into the dot RU domain via ok.ru -- think "Russian Facebook". I'm not using bitcoin to send those flowers quite yet, but if you're in Moscow and somebody rings your doorbell... that might mean I'm learning.
The 2020 retrospective goes back through some show and tell recaps, hoping to trigger at least some memories out there. If you're a student, you know that "cramming" may just mean it all falls out of your head a lot faster. What is it we get to keep? Mnemonics is your friend.
The new word at Wanderers (a local meetup, Linus Pauling House based) is
FLÂNEUR
an art term. It means "wanderer with no purpose" (or "with a purpose to be purposeless"). "Not All Who Wander Are Lost" may be a slogan familiar to you. Think "tourist". Visit Portland "Keeping It Weird" Oregon someday?
With the close of Lattice Gallery, right behind Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), came the end of Phase I: public awareness. The press release to the Sculptors Conference net us a key audience, and a footprint in Art World at last.
However, Phase II is likely to focus on marine biology in some dimension, with neutral buoyancy sensors held in stasis by slender "stalks" per the famous Lanahan Flextegrity design -- what Lattice Gallery was all about. Marine Habitats. Ecotourism. What's down there?
How do we address CCP lattice balls uniquely? Why not use coordinate addresses. The stalks have sufficient diameter to carry insulated cable. We don't have to use 5G or even 4G, thereby interfering with signal. We'll have an underwater matrix able to sense schools of fish, unaffected by the cabling, and render them in 3D in real time.
Some of you may be imagining a much more spaced-out matrix with room for larger objects, pre-programmed to dodge nodes (hubs) and stalks (connectors).
Better yet, we're free to communicate on public frequencies, i.e. use WiFi so 5G or 4G might be just the ticket.
The underwater buoy matrix, in CCP conformation, will depend on C6XTY-like buckyballs (macro-sized) holding their own positions. This might require battery power only for the duration of the tournament or other sporting event. Think of drones, but underwater.
Have you seen our technical journaling about (a,b,c,0) addressing for these pods? Popular mechanical engineering themes weave through this (x,y,z) fabric of lattice elements. Do we call it Cartesian? Our high schoolers start to study these topics well before students in most states (of mind). Would you like to accelerate along a learning curve?
I'm looking to India and other ancient cultures for some feedback on this question, regarding the IVM as an archetype. What's the etymology of "isotropic" in ancient Greek? Do we find the IVM in the Vedas in some precursor form? Some Buddhist have said it means Void (in translation). That sounds fine, but let's not wait for someone in California to figure it all out, OK? Oregon Curriculum Network has more direct sources.
IVM has many meanings of course, as my PhD friend Dr. Potkin reminds me. Of course this being CSN, home of those synergetics hypertoons, I'm using the namespace of Dr. Fuller: isotropic vector matrix.
That's the CCP (or FCC) to you chem heads (Linus Pauling's preferred stomping ground). Check OCN's stash of Jupyter Notebooks for more info (School of Tomorrow meme).
I'm imagining a billboard, kind of funny, with people pulling off the road to satisfy their curiosity.
The booth brochures (freeway rest stop?) given a sense of it: don some VR googles, kick back, and see how much organic chemistry you might learn in an evening, a meal included, and a badge or certificate, that you were a player.
School of Tomorrow.
You'll recognize The House of Tomorrow theme perhaps.
Nana lives with her ward and believes in a future imagined by Buckminster Fuller, whom many (well, a few) dismiss as a CIA kook, I mean spook. I mean, look at whom he hung out with. A cold warrior, right?
But then, keeping wars cold is not always a bad calling. Hot warriors want to end the experiments.
Anyway, the movie doesn't look at Fuller especially critically, but nor does it really have much time for any curriculum.
So I made up a School of Tomorrow to serve as a companion guide to the Bucky stuff, meaning Synergetics and the "omnidirectional halo" style of thinking (holistic) it trains us in (No More Secondhand God).
FAQ:
Question: So why is my "VR glasses" scenario fixated on organic chemistry instead?
Answer:
(A) It's not either/or and
(B) I'm living in the old stomping grounds of one Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of organic molecular structures.
Dr. Pauling (Oregon State University, Cal Tech) paved the way for people to imagine, and find, buckminsterfullerene as a molecule (C60). That's a condensed version of the story, and a segue to the Bucky chapter.
He was on on the trail seeking the structure of DNA. One of his published papers got it wildly wrong, but he wasn't afraid to speculate. Science would get nowhere without people risking being wrong about stuff.
He wanted to be a part of the DNA party in the Europe, but the Feds denied him a visa. The letter denying him said visa is still on display in the special collection at OSU.
Linus was regarded as subversive, as he was always questioning the "atomic program" i.e. being honest about the real health effects. His Peace Prize traces to all that in large degree. He also spoke out against the internment of Americans of Japanese heritage during WW2, and tried to protect some friends from the wartime paranoia (the mental illness of his peers).
Douglas Strain was very impressed by Pauling's integrity and for that reason committed estate resources to preserving both his and his wife's Ava's papers, and keeping the Linus Pauling House on Hawthorne in decent shape. I mention that house in my video.
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