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 [...]
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” – Dr. Steven Weinberg We may never know where we came from. We will probably never find that cosmic connection to our lost royalty.. Read this thought provoking essay by Dennis Overbye The Joy of Physics Isn’t in the Results, but in the [...]
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -Albert Einstein, “Geometry and Experience”, -1921 ” Einstein found right again. Heavens not askew! Savants not agog!’ ” Read this fascinating feature by Dennis Overbye in NYT. 7.3 [...]
Nobel Awarded for Harnessing Light Our ubiquitous Digital cameras, YouTube, hi-speed Internet, medical endoscopes —just a few of countless modern marvels made possible by the three scientists who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Charles Kuen Kao and with Willard Sterling Boyle and George Elwood Smith sharing the other half. Kao’s discoveries have paved [...]
Poetry &Science Entropy | 16 Jun 2009
This is an haunting poem by Roald Hoffmann, (1981 Nobel laureate in chemistry ) written when “Nature commissioned him to write on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA,”. The result was a poem titled CODE, MEMORY. Which apparently was not published by them. It’s not a simple poem, neither in structure nor mood. Layered [...]
Science &Thought Provoking Entropy | 24 Apr 2009
This is a fascinating trivia on Time, arguably the most illusive entity.. Time- Space – & Reality .. The beginning, the end, and the funny habits of our favorite ticking force. 1 “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so,” joked Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Scientists aren’t laughing, though. Some speculative [...]