Complicated or Complex?

Puzzle or Mystery?

Smithsonian

There's a reason millions of people try to solve crossword puzzles each day. Amid the well-ordered combat between a puzzler's mind and the blank boxes waiting to be filled, there is satisfaction along with frustration. Even when you can't find the right answer, you know it exists. Puzzles can be solved; they have answers.

But a mystery offers no such comfort. It poses a question that has no definitive answer because the answer is contingent; it depends on a future interaction of many factors, known and unknown. A mystery

cannot be answered; it can only be framed, by identifying the critical factors and applying some sense of how they have interacted in the past and might interact in the future. A mystery is an attempt to define ambiguities...

Wanna say more on this, particularly some of its examples, but I'll have to come back later.

Innovate? But it's raining, Fouro.

Innovate? But it's raining, Fouro.

Been quite bz around here in the first qtr, so, in lieu of catching up with some lame posts I thought I'd upload some of what we've been exploring and sharing. These are sized down so a click or two to "view image in new window" should make them legible. See any patterns?









































I'll bet your brain hurts after all that.