Science & Thought Provoking Entropy | 30 Aug 2007
Gut Reaction Gains Credibility
Published: August 28, 2007- New York Times.
In a conversation with Gerd Gigerenzer, this German psychologist looks at intuition and how we use it.
Pl refer and read
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/science/28conv.html?ex=1345953600&en=6320
Meditation-Introspection & Poetry & Poetry- Physics Entropy | 28 Aug 2007
“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 can [...]
Photography Entropy | 24 Aug 2007
There are few achievements in the history of man that rival our explorations into space. And few images as unifying, moving, and widely recognized as those photographs taken during these journeys. Photos that have changed the way we see our world and ourselves. Photos taken with Hasselblad cameras.
Pl refer link and explore…
http://www.hasselblad.com/about-hasselblad/hasselblad-in-space.aspx
Meditation-Introspection & Music & Thought Provoking Entropy | 22 Aug 2007
The colonization of silence is complete. Its progress was so gradual that even those who watched it with alarm have only now begun to take stock of the losses. Reflection, discernment, a sustainable sense of tranquility, of knowing where and how to find oneself—these are only the most obvious casualties of marauding noise’s march to [...]
Literature & Poetry- Physics Entropy | 17 Aug 2007
After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics
As the son of a physicist, Auden had an enduring interest in science and the moral issues surrounding it.
If all a top physicist knows
About the Truth be true,
Then, for all the so-and-so’s,
Futility and grime,
Our common world contains,
We have a better time
Than the Greater Nebulae do,
Or the atoms in [...]
FREEMAN DYSON
Sixty years ago, when I was a young and arrogant physicist, I tried to predict the future of physics and biology. My prediction was an extreme example of wrongness, perhaps a world record in the category of wrong predictions. I was giving advice about future employment to Francis Crick, the great biologist who [...]