Medicine & Science & Thought Provoking Entropy | 28 Oct 2006
The Median Isn’t the Message by Stephen Jay Gould
Prefatory Note by Steve Dunn
Stephen Jay Gould was an influential evolutionary biologist who taught at Harvard University. He was the author of at least ten popular books on evolution, and science, including, among others, The Flamingo’s Smile, The Mismeasure of Man, Wonderful Life, and Full House.
As far [...]
Peter Atkins, professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford, shares his list of the 10 great ideas of science.
1. Evolution proceeds by natural selection
Natural selection is one of the greatest ideas of science, for it is so simple to express but has consequences of boundless complexity. That organisms accumulate changes as they adapt to [...]
Poetry- Physics & Science & Sprituality Entropy | 25 Oct 2006
Read this interesting excerpt from: – A Tagore Reader, edited by Amiya Chakravarty…
Tagore and Einstein met through a common friend, Dr. Mendel. Tagore visited Einstein at his residence at Kaputh in the suburbs of Berlin on July 14, 1930, and Einstein returned the call and visited Tagore at the Mendel home. Both conversations were recorded [...]
Philosophy & Science Entropy | 19 Oct 2006
Almost all human reasoning is approximate in nature.
It is the approximate rather than exact reasoning that accounts
for the remarkable human ability to recognize distroted speech,
decipher sloppy handwriting and more generally make rational decisions
in an environment of uncertainity and imprecision
-Dr. Lotfi A. Zadeh – Father Of Fuzzy Logic
Metaphysical Poetry Entropy | 17 Oct 2006
Blake, reason and the passions by W.B. Yeats.
The reason, and by the reason he meant deductions from the observations of the senses, binds us to mortality because it binds us to the senses, and divides us from each other by showing us our clashing interests; but imagination divides us from mortality by the immortality of [...]
Life & Music Entropy | 16 Oct 2006
When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees,
well they’d be singing so happily,
joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so [...]