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 [...]
Books &Poetry &Science Entropy | 11 Feb 2009
Darwin in Song. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of “On the Origin of Species,” The New York Times profiles Richard Milner, a singing Darwinian scholar. Refer to my previous post The year of Darwin to explore further.. The origin of the Origin Also on [...]
Poetry &Science Entropy | 25 Jan 2009
E=Mc2 is arguably most referred, used, abused and least understood scientific equation. The equation’s influence, on both scientific and sociological fronts, is indeed hard to separate from Einstein’s influence as a whole which, like E = mc2-derived heat from the sun, shows no sign of diminishing. Recite this charming poem by Morris Bishop. E = [...]
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 [...]