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Both what you run from and what you yearn for are within you

Archive for July, 2006

Literature & Poetry Entropy | 31 Jul 2006

Poetry In Search of Me

“Poetry is like bread,” he wrote. “It should be shared by all, by scholars and peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.”

POETRY And it was at that age…Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don’t know how or when,
no, they [...]

Life & Meditation-Introspection Entropy | 30 Jul 2006

Aphorism

Life is short,
art is long,
opportunity fleeting,
experimenting dangerous,
reasoning difficult.
- Hippocrates

Economic Behaviour & Thought Provoking Entropy | 24 Jul 2006

Money Does Not Buy Much Happiness

Your next raise might buy you a more lavish vacation, a better car, or a few extra bedrooms, but it’s not likely to buy you much happiness.
Measuring the quality of people’s daily lives via surveys, the results of a study published in the June 30 issue of journal Science reveals that income plays a rather [...]

Science Entropy | 23 Jul 2006

Intense Hunt for Signs of Damage Could Raise Problems of Its Own

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., July 26 – Now that the Discovery is in orbit, the examination begins. Its 12½-day mission will be the most photographed in the history of the shuttle program, with all eyes on the craft to see if it suffered the kind of damage from blastoff debris that brought down the Columbia in [...]

Economic Behaviour & Life Entropy | 23 Jul 2006

Homo Economicus Vs Homo Sociolus

This is a relevant & thoughtful piece by columnist Sanjeev Pandya
Biology has a name for our specie, Homo Sapiens. Mostly, this definition captures certain physical characteristics (the size of the brain, mammals, etc) by which we, the human race, is clubbed into a single basket of ’similar’ living beings.

As I explained in an earlier column, [...]

Metaphysical Poetry & Philosophy Entropy | 15 Jul 2006

The Island

And God said, I will build a church here And cause this people to
worship me, And afflict them with poverty and sickness
In return for centuries of hard work
And patience. And its walls shall be hard as Their hearts,
and its windows let in the light Grudgingly, as their minds do,
and the priest’s words be drowned By [...]

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