in⋅er⋅tia Noun 1.– Inertness, esp. with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness. Physics. 2. The property of matter by which it retains its state of rest or its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force. ” Fix’d like a plan on [...]
Meditation-Introspection &Poetry Entropy | 14 Jan 2010
Linda Pastan’s poems follow this humble equation that from nothing or little comes much to those who look closely and perceive. Pastan’s poems are based on close observation that results often in profound expressions of truth from the human heart. What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: [...]
Nature &Science Entropy | 11 Jan 2010
Each Other — Where We Are The recent Time magazine cover feature Why Genes Aren’t Your Destiny lead me to post this feature on epigenetics by Ecologist, author, poet and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health. May seem long to read on [...]
Books &Economic Behaviour Entropy | 08 Jan 2010
The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades, economists have begun a revolutionary reorientation in how we look at the world, and this has major implications for politics, policy, and our everyday lives. For years, conventional economists told us an incomplete story that leaned on the comfortable [...]
Life &Medicine Entropy | 03 Jan 2010
In the words of Carl Jung – “Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.” At New York [...]