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 of modern [...]
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.
Perhaps hope is [...]
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 share her [...]
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 theoretical physicist Lisa Randall [...]
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 social phobia, desensitize among the rows
of corn’s parade, [...]