Literature Entropy | 24 Feb 2010
Literature Nobel laureate Isacc Bashevis Singer -(1902 -1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement. Singer wrote autobiographical and fantasy tales for children which are deeply rooted in the lost cultural tradition of his native Poland. The stories he [...]
Literature Entropy | 15 Dec 2009
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 is awarded to the German author Herta Müller– “Who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”. Writing as Living Herta Müller has lived through the kind of vicious absurdity that most can only imagine. A member of Romania’s German [...]
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 [...]
Literature &Poetry Entropy | 23 Nov 2008
I’ve once again returned to Szymborska’s Poem. This is one of her signature poems where she playfully investigates the nature of the poetic imagination. It muses about the relationship between words & things, and illuminates the character of poetic making.. As such this my fifth post on her work.. Why does this written doe bound [...]
Economic Behaviour &News Entropy | 14 Oct 2008
I was pleasantly surprised and deeply moved to read the News of one of my favorite New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman receiving the Noble Prize in Economic Sciences. Essentially reading his columns for many years, makes me feel connected. In fact NYT has been my daily diet since it became accessible on the Net. [...]
Economic Behaviour Entropy | 20 Sep 2008
The recent Economic & financial market turmoil has prompted me to post this. It is relevant & enlightening as it deals with the irrationality of the human mind, especially related to our economic choices. In fact, in reality, we are anything but rational beings. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to give the Noble [...]