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[ by Charles Cameron — and yes, they are a-changin’ — or not? ]
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I guess that answered that. pic.twitter.com/3nU0AIblqQ

— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) April 13, 2016

h/t @pmarca.

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I’d probably have reversed the order here, so cause was followed by effect — but maybe I’m just being too “stick in the mud / stuck in the box” conventional.

Fine work.

[ by Charles Cameron — tree-climbing, and what to do in the utter absence of trees ]
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Both these papers — which together make an amazing study in contrasts in terms both of play and risk, adult and child — come from the American Journal of Play, Volume 8, Number 2:

Take care you don’t fall off that space station and scrape your knee..

[ by Charles Cameron — Dabiq vs the Qur’an — again, it’s the formal precision of the reversal that inrerests me ]
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It is not the fact that the Islamic State delights in killing infidels that surprises me, it’s the utter reversal of the Qur’an’s own emphasis on the value of a single life that catches my eye.

For the Qur’an, a single human life is worth the world, unless that life is subject to the death penalty for murder or mayhem; for IS, the lives of a world of infidels are worth less than a single Muslim life.

The one and the many, an individual and the whole world — how differently they are regarded in these two texts.

[ by Charles Cameron — two matters concerning naval intelligence ]
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Here’s a chewable DoubleTweet:

Amid Shocking Chinese Spy Case, Our Navy Can No Longer Be Trusted https://t.co/lk7LO1JhkO

— J. Scott Shipman (@jscottshipman) April 11, 2016

Correlate that with:

The Director of Naval Intelligence does not have a security clearance. Has "less access to secrets than an ensign." https://t.co/2yY0fmfKPE

— Michael Bayer (@mbayer1248) January 29, 2016

— and you just might glimpse what Carl Jung termed an “acausal connecting principle” or “acausal parallelism”.

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For dessert, how’s this for a serpent biting its own tail?

This is pretty nuts. The Director of Navy Intelligence can't even read his own reports. https://t.co/2yY0fmfKPE pic.twitter.com/hveL2eVnGK

— Michael Bayer (@mbayer1248) January 29, 2016

[ by Charles Cameron — further education & elucidation in matters scientific and legal are welcome ]
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Full disclosure: Forbes‘ headline in its entirety reads Federal Court Rules On Climate Change In Favor Of Today’s Children — and that’s not a bad intro to the topic of this quite exceptional ruling.

Other reading:

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, Victory In Landmark Climate Case

US District Court for the District Of Oregon, Kelsey Cascade Rose Juliana, et al v USA, et al

Scientific American, Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago