Still, this is only part of the story, for the correspondences between synthetic cell diagrams and mandalas not only pertain to the object pole (the end product of the synthetic cell endeavour), but also to the subject pole (the researchers of research teams involved, Zwart 2017).
The various projects to organize regional poles or communities of research, innovation, and teaching have failed and will fail in the near future because they intensify conflicts of interest and power at all levels.
If the scientific system is one pole of participatory (futures) research, the practice fields that are characterised by the pragmatic logic of everyday life are the other pole.
Do we have any field offices on glaciers?" Maybe you're too low on the totem pole to define your own area of research: If you're a grad student and your principal investigator (PI) says, "Today, you will research the impact of your car on picking up my dry cleaning," you can't exactly disagree.
There followed many years of research near the south pole, in what was at first called the Falkland Islands Dependency Survey and was later renamed the British Antarctic Survey.
It is possible to imagine, as did our influential participants themselves, that a better balance between the practices of research associated with each of the two poles and the introduction of new disciplines could improve the quality of research.
In December 1958 Soviet scientists responded to the US's construction of the Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole by building a research station at the Pole of Inaccessibility - the Antarctic's most remote spot.
(Incidentally, the record coldest temperature measured on Earth was at the Russian South Pole research station of Vostok, Antarctica (-128.6 deg. F) on July 21 , 1983.
The measurements were collected as part of the High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research HIAPERR) Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) research aircraft campaign [ Wofsy et al., 2011, 2012] with a single-particle soot photometer (SP2, Droplet Measurement Technology, Inc., Boulder, CO) during five 3 week measurements series mainly over the Pacific.
Depression is the predominant pole of illness disability in bipolar disorder and, compared with acute mania, has less systematic research guiding treatment development.
