Wish to share exceptional picture from New York Times, which captures somber spirit of this Christmas.. Wishing all my readers & friends Merry X- mas .. Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.” ~ Joan Mills
This is relevant & insightful Post by an evolutionary biologist, Olivia Judson on her New York Times Blog The Wild Side.. is being reproduced. As such I loved the Carol .. The Ten Days of Newton Some years ago, the evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins pointed out to me that Sir Isaac Newton, the founder [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 22 Dec 2008
As such, this year 2008 has been exceptionally difficult, personally and otherwise- the economic meltdown, planet in peril and terrorism. Feeling cynical & distressed. However one has to keep belief & hope alive, to cope.. “Hope: The following page. Do not close the book. I have turned all the pages of the book without finding hope. [...]
News &Poetry Entropy | 21 Dec 2008
Poet Chosen for Inauguration Is Aiming for a Work That Transcends the Moment. Barack Obama has commissioned Elizabeth Alexander to compose and read a poem for his inauguration, making her only the fourth poet in American history to read at one. This heart warming news in N.Y.Times led me to explore about her and I [...]
Poetry- Physics &Science Entropy | 19 Dec 2008
This is an fascinating ideas cross pollination, which reaffirms my belief that Physics is Poetry.. I’ve got the world on a string. —Frank Sinatra A talk with Lisa Randall HARVARD’S JEFFERSON LABORATORY, home to the physics department since 1884, has seen its share of firsts; 10 Nobel Laureates have made their discoveries there. Today, leading [...]
Poetry &Sprituality Entropy | 15 Dec 2008
Panic attacks your pain-porous skin? Imagine the layers of onion, Sufi-circling and circling until there is no tear-making body. If the issue is anorexia, taking starvation’s dark spirit-flight, or anhedonia, running from the skin’s having fun, consider the mushroom’s fleshy erection, and the pumpkins, earth goddesses and rotund Buddhas sprawled by compost’s funky aerosol. For [...]