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Connecting everything - connessione
Meaning connection, for Leonardo connessione was ‘a recognition of and appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things and phenomena’. Today we recognise this concept as systems thinking or what some businesses call interdependence. Much of Leonardo’s output is based on his ability to form new patterns through connections and combinations of different elements.
The magicicada is an extraordinary species of cicada that uses my favourite numbers in mathematics, the primes, for its evolutionary survival. To find them we travelled to Nashville Tennessee, home usually to the sound of blue grass and honky tonk. But every 13 years the banjos and basses get drowned out by the chorus of an insect that has fascinated me ever since I became a mathematician. It might seem strange for a mathematician to be interested in bugs but these cicadas are rather special. Only found in the eastern states of north America the cicadas exploit mathematics to help them to survive. They appear periodically but only emerge after a prime number of years. In the case of the brood appearing around Nashville: every 13 years.
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With the advent of rockets being fired into Isreal from the Lebanon, overnight,
I am sadly reminded of the Pan American pilot who came onto my frequency as an Air Traffic Controller in London, to report in his southern drawl that he had two terrorists in the cockpit who were requesting that he divert his USA-bound flight to Beirut in the Lebanon.
That was when IT ALL BEGAN.
Rather than asking “Can the British Government stick to its story” as Sir Stuart Rose has suggested in his interview with Robert Peston yesterday, I would go further in saying that IT IS TIME for ”the spinned STOP-START policies” of ALL “political factions” on earth to be put on hold.
IT IS these policies by which our new masters of the globe have brought their peoples to the brink of the abyss, in respect of EVERY FUNCTION of the sustained survival of LIFE on EARTH.
ONLY by ”switching” from the political spin of self-interested sophistication, arrogance and greed to the common-sense values and principles of reponsibility of the collective consciousness of ALL the peoples of this planet can balance and harmony be re-established.
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Michael is poetry, and a dear dear friend.
And the world will be our paper, God our pen, as we gather together to beget the one from the two.
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You know Leonardo is one of my favorite people :)
Perfect…the first modern mind…etc etc etc
Through observation… that Mona Lisa is very interesting, isn’t…she.
Thank you, you wonderful weaver of words. :)
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For one whose mind IS predominately visuo/spatial, IT IS an honour indeed to be referred to as a “wonderful weaver of words”.
Appreciatively yours - TOGETHER WE STAND