Poetry &Sprituality Entropy | 27 Apr 2009
Wislawa Szymborska‘s poetry speaks about enduring and irreversible coordinates of human fate— love, striving, fear of pain, hope, the fleeting nature of things… Sky.. We should have started from this: the sky. A window without a sill, frame, or pane. An opening and with nothing more, beyond it. I don’t have to wait for a [...]
Science &Thought Provoking Entropy | 24 Apr 2009
This is a fascinating trivia on Time, arguably the most illusive entity.. Time- Space – & Reality .. The beginning, the end, and the funny habits of our favorite ticking force. 1 “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so,” joked Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Scientists aren’t laughing, though. Some speculative [...]
Poetry- Physics Entropy | 23 Apr 2009
Rebbcca Elson was an astronomer. Her principal work focused on globular clusters, teasing out the history of stellar birth, life and death. She took her PhD at Cambridge and started publishing poems while working at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, and researched at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics. I was born in the [...]
Mathematics &Poetry Entropy | 17 Apr 2009
J. V. Cunningham, poet, critic, editor, and general man of letters, gained the high regard of his literary colleagues for his concise, witty, epigrammatic poetry. His epigrammatic lines range from the solemn—”Life flows to death as rivers to the sea / And life is fresh and death is salt to me”—to the humorous—noting that a [...]
“If poems touch our full humanness, can they quicken awareness and bolster respect for this ravaged resilient earth we live on?” writes Stanford professor of English John Felstiner in Can Poetry Save the Earth? As we hover on the environmental point of no return, Felstiner argues that poetry may have a singular capacity to return [...]
Architecture & Design Entropy | 10 Apr 2009
Pl read this a fascinating feature on paradigm shift of Designs in economic crisis by Allison Arieff in New York Times.. At its heart, design is about problem-solving, but it’s also about problem-identifying. Instead of creating a need for things, designers can now focus on responding to things we do need. We may have never [...]