Books &Science Entropy | 22 Jul 2010
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world.– Primo Levi Most people [...]
Nature &Science Entropy | 04 Jun 2010
We are star stuff ,which has taken its destiny into its own hands. -Carl Sagan The genome pioneer J. Craig Venter has taken another step in his quest to create synthetic life, by synthesizing an entire bacterial genome and using it to take over a cell. Dr. Venter calls the result a “synthetic cell” and [...]
Meditation-Introspection &Science Entropy | 04 May 2010
This is an eloquent and inspiring essay by Adam Frank, noted astrophysicist and author.. Appreciating life quality (dwelling in situations of inherent value) rather than adhering to an increasingly higher standard of living. There will be a profound awareness of the difference between big and great. – Deep Ecology Being Human Is Different, Or What [...]
Architecture & Design &Science Entropy | 12 Apr 2010
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. – Charles Darwin-(1809 –1882) The new Darwin Centre, recently opened to visitors, it is an extension of the famous Natural History [...]
Science &Thought Provoking Entropy | 07 Mar 2010
This is an eloquent and thoughtful essay by Dr.Marcelo Gleiser, Brazilian physicist and astronomer. He is also Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College, is the author of THE DANCING UNIVERSE: FROM CREATION MYTHS TO THE BIG BANG. Pl care to share your thoughts .. It’s easy to bash humans. We are making a [...]
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 [...]