Economic Behaviour Entropy | 29 May 2010
“Human beings have a seemingly fundamental tendency to compensate for lower risks in one area by taking greater risks in another.”- Malcolm Gladwell Although we may not always recognize it, this world view, have had a profound effect not only on science, economics, engineering but also on philosophy, and societal relations. The twenty-first century have [...]
Economic Behaviour &Globalisation Entropy | 26 May 2010
The idea is essentially repulsive of a society only held together by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interests. – John Stuart Mill As always incisive & eloquent piece by NYT Columnist Roger Cohen .. Pl read on .. Toilets and Cellphones I was intrigued to learn the other day that there are [...]
Philosophy &Poetry- Physics Entropy | 25 May 2010
William Bronk’s poetry begins where philosophy leaves off: in the enactment of an idea, in the testing of a proposition. Each poem addresses itself to a central question of existence, not only why we are here but where we are. It seems there is more than one way to argue about the nature of reality. [...]
Books &Meditation-Introspection Entropy | 19 May 2010
Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience- By Stephen S. Hall This Book is a compelling investigation into one of our most coveted and cherished ideals, and the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of this timeless virtue. In the words of Lama Surya Das – Wisdom is an endangered natural resource today in [...]
Books &Music Entropy | 11 May 2010
The Blue Moment Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music.. The critics and jazz fans alike consider Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue an improvisational tour de force. Davis cultivated an atmosphere of creative instability by rolling tape on his ensemble’s first takes and refusing to rehearse. They turned out a collection [...]
Light-years It’s a beautiful world, you said, with these trees, marshes, deserts, grasses, rivers and seas and so on. And the moon is really something in its circuits of relative radiance. Include the wingèd M, voluptuous Venus, hotheaded Mars, that lucky devil J and cranky Saturn, of course, plus U and N and the wanderer [...]