Books & Thought Provoking Entropy | 26 Jun 2007
By Gregory McNamee – June 11th, 2007 on Britanica Blog
At the beginning of June, I was in New York attending Book Expo America, the annual trade show at which publishers from around the world display their wares and highlight their fall seasonal lists. BEA can be a disorienting swirl of celebrity and vapidity, showcasing [...]
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 Chadwick [...]
Books & Poetry Entropy | 20 Jun 2007
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 (1883-1931). The [...]
Economic Behaviour & Thought Provoking Entropy | 19 Jun 2007
Modern economists have assumed that people in auctions behave rationally. Then came eBay.
By Christopher Shea | June 10, 2007
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 [...]
Metaphysical Poetry & 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 [...]
Flying over the unlit side of Saturn’s rings, the Cassini spacecraft captures the planet’s glow, represented in brilliant shades of electric blue, sapphire and mint green, while the planet’s shadow casts a wide net on the rings.
This striking false-color mosaic was created from 25 images taken by Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer over a [...]