Architecture & Design Entropy | 25 Jul 2011
Manhattanhenge, is the term used to describe a biannual occurrence in New York City when the sun aligns with the east-west streets of Manhattan’s main grid. Adopted in 1811 the famous street grid of Manhattan, the Commissioners’ Plan, was the original design plan for the streets in which the grid plan is offset at 29.0 [...]
Literature &Poetry Entropy | 22 Jul 2011
Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich is one of America’s foremost public intellectuals. Widely read and hugely influential, Rich’s career has spanned four decades.. In our dark times we need poetry more than ever, Eloquent Commentary by Adrienne Rich In “The Defence of Poetry” 1821, Shelley claimed that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”. [...]
Life &Medicine Entropy | 18 Jul 2011
In 1959, the great biologist René Dubos wrote a book called Mirage of Health, in which he pointed out that “complete and lasting freedom from disease is but a dream remembered from imaginings of a Garden of Eden. But, in the intervening decades, his admonition has largely been ignored by both doctors and society as [...]
Life &Medicine Entropy | 01 Jul 2011
Maggie Breslin came to her career as a designer through a love for stories. Presently she is senior designer/researcher in the Center for Innovation at Mayo Clinic, a role she pioneered in 2005 where she leads teams in collecting stories and using them to re-imagining how health care services will be delivered. She also leads [...]