Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones was published in 2002; and released in cinema adaptation in 2010. As a runaway success, doubtless many reviews and discussions would have taken place. This review is experimental: It seeks to consider this popular novel from a perspective about systemicity. My concern here is with the plausibility of transmission of cybernetic ideas and systemic knowledge i...

As I wait in the lounge of Berlin’s Tegel airport, I’m three feet but half a world away from a woman tapping away on her cell phone. We’ve exchanged enough pleasantries to discover that we don’t speak the same language, but I’m convinced I can learn her story from the dance of her ngers across the screen and the movements of her face. Between bursts of action with her thumbs, her right index ng...

Regular variations of the pulse period Her X-1 with X-ray flux observed by Fermi-GBM are examined. We argue that these regular result from free precession neutron star in X-1.