Books &Philosophy &Science Entropy | 23 Jun 2007
Interesting NY.Times Book Review.. June 2007 FAUST IN COPENHAGEN- A Struggle for the Soul of Physics.By Gino Segrè. As though their knowledge of the quantum secrets came with the power of prophecy, some three dozen of Europe’s best physicists ended their 1932 meeting in Copenhagen with a parody of Goethe’s “Faust.” Just weeks earlier, James [...]
From the June 18, 2007, Princeton Weekly Bulletin Significant portions of the working manuscripts and notebooks of four well-known books, including “The Prophet,” by Kahlil Gibran have been donated to the Princeton University Library. The library’s Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is now home to the William H. Shehadi Collection of Kahlil Gibran [...]
Economic Behaviour Entropy | 19 Jun 2007
Modern economists have assumed that people in auctions behave rationally. Then came eBay. In Rome, they called it calor licitantis, or “bidder’s heat.” If you got swept up in the passion of an auction and paid way too much for something, you could plead a form of temporary insanity, and the judges might step in [...]
Poetry- Physics &Science Entropy | 12 Jun 2007
I came across brilliant under noted article by William L. Hosch – on Blog Britannica, which I am reproducing with all the hyperlinks. Essentially it encapsulate underlying profound & mysterious connections between metaphysical poetry of William Black with Mathematics, calculus & physics.. Contemplation of Benoit Mandelbrot’s famous fractal oft brings to my mind the opening [...]
Medicine Entropy | 07 Jun 2007
Whether drawing a mental blank on a new A.T.M. password, a favorite recipe or an old boyfriend, people have ample opportunity every day to curse their own forgetfulness. But forgetting is also a blessing, and researchers reported on Sunday that the ability to block certain memories reduces the demands on the brain when it is [...]
Philosophy &Poetry Entropy | 03 Jun 2007
The phrase used by the English poet John Keats to describe the quality of selfless receptivity necessary to a true poet. In a letter to his brothers (December 1817), he writes at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously—I mean [...]