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 [...]
Life &Literature Entropy | 30 May 2011
In the words of Eduardo Malleaan an Argentine essayist and writer “Each man’s destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen resemble what is already in his memory” This post is for my friend Nimesh, a restless incorrigible traveler.. I am sending you postcards from a place where I am not. We’re not tourists, [...]
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy– Václav Havel Entropic Thoughts – which seems to be apt title for my post to mark end of 2010 and beginning of [...]
Wishing all entropy’s readers & friends Merry Christmas .. “There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more difficult than you thought.” This is the muse of form. It may be [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 02 Nov 2010
This Deepavali, festival of lights, wish to share this prophetic poem by Wendell Berry a poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher and farmer.– ” To be Sane in a Mad Time is Bad for the Brain, Worse for the Heart “. Questionnaire… 1.) How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free [...]