Meditation-Introspection & Philosophy Entropy | 24 Sep 2006
If you travel northwest from Athens, on the road to Corinth, you will come to the ruins of the once great city of Delphi. Delphi is the place once thought by the Greeks to be the center of the world. Here, in the 6th century B.C., the Oracle in the Temple of Apollo, was at [...]
Philosophy & Poetry Entropy | 22 Sep 2006
W.H. Auden has been admired for his unsurpassed technical virtuosity and an ability to write poems in nearly every imaginable verse form; the incorporation in his work of popular culture, current events, and vernacular speech; and also for the vast range of his intellect, which drew easily from an extraordinary variety of literatures, art forms, [...]
Poetry- Physics & Science Entropy | 21 Sep 2006
Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Keplar, Isaac Newton, Galileo, Albert Einstein
These are the men who paved the superhighway to the cosmos.
The earth and the moon…is the force down here the same as the force up there?
Of course, Newton will tell you the force goes as the inverse square.
Maxwell, Max Planck, Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, Bohr, Dirac and I [...]
Poetry- Physics & Science Entropy | 21 Sep 2006
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is “mere.” I too can see the stars on a desert night,and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye [...]
Economic Behaviour & Thought Provoking Entropy | 17 Sep 2006
This is an interesting take on our Risk taking behavior..
Human Behavior Time to Hit the Panic Button? How we decide what’s risky Modern life requires us to be risk analyzers. Every day we size up our chances of being killed by terrorists, epidemics, and vicious All-U-Can-Eat buffets. At Who Knew? our policy is to ward [...]
Art & Photography Entropy | 01 Sep 2006
The present state of creative photography in the country is very confused and leaves a lot to be desired. Inevitably, India becomes the recipient of outdated technologies, fashions, and ideas from the West. This gets reflected in photography too. Photographers are expected to entertain through their work. But we are not visual entertainers.
Of course, there [...]