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 net [...]
Nature & Poetry Entropy | 07 Oct 2009
What chemistry!” The rapt poet Walt Whitman contemplates the mystery by which humans and animals rot into the life-giving soil. “It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops, / It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.
While composting is a practical chore we suffer to [...]
Mathematics & Nature & Poetry Entropy | 14 Jan 2009
Inger Christensen, a distinguished Danish poet whose work — lyrical, philosophical, self-referential and exquisitely mathematical — was a cornerstone of modern Scandinavian poetry, died on Jan. 2 in Copenhagen. She was 73 and lived in Copenhagen. Read N.Y.Times obituary
Inger Christensen wrote her masterpiece poem “Alphabet” in 1981.(Being reproduced below) She uses the alphabet (from a [...]
Nature & Science Entropy | 06 Jan 2009
The year 2009 is the bicentennial of Darwin’s birthday, and sesquicentennial of publication of his seminal book in Nov -1859 “The Origin of Species“… ( The Origin with a literal rendition of Genesis )
Source: Nature News
The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Robert Darwin falls on 12 February 2009. Darwin was arguably the most [...]
Globalisation & Life & Nature Entropy | 19 Aug 2008
The recent passing away of Masanobu Fukuoka, the pioneer of ‘‘natural’’ farming, which eschews plowing, weeding and the use of fertilizers or pesticides, led me to connect and reproduce the this under noted article , which was published in Oct 2007 Orion Magazine . Fukuoka was the author of ‘‘The One Straw Revolution,’’
The heart warming [...]
Nature & Science Entropy | 15 Jun 2008
Galileo invented it, Einstein understood it, and Eddington saw it.
1 Who invented relativity? Bzzzt—wrong. Galileo hit on the idea in 1639, when he showed that a falling object behaves the same way on a moving ship as it does in a motionless building.
2 And Einstein didn’t call it relativity. The word never appears [...]