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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Literature &Philosophy &Science Entropy | 04 Aug 2007
Scientist and artist -Alan Lightman remembers when the sense of scientific creativity almost lifted him by the hair and “pulled him out of the water.” He recalled the experience while lecturing an overflow crowd at the Academy on March 22, 2005: I was working on my first big project as a graduate student. I had [...]