Sunday, January 04, 2009
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Salman Rushdie, “The Shelter of the World,” The New Yorker of Feb. 25,2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
Eric D. Schneider & Dorion Sagan, Into the Cool: Energy Flow Thermodynamics and Life
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Eric D. Schneider & Dorion Sagan, Into the Cool: Energy Flow Thermodynamics and Life
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Eric D. Schneider & Dorion Sagan, Into the Cool: Energy Flow Thermodynamics and Life
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Eric D. Schneider & Dorion Sagan, Into the Cool: Energy Flow Thermodynamics and Life (pg. 158-59)
Friday, May 16, 2008
Eric D. Schneider & Dorion Sagan, Into the Cool: Energy Flow Thermodynamics and Life
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Whenever a gradient is applied to a system, insofar as constraints allow, the gradient is spontaneously degraded as completely as possible. Constraints, of course, are not trivial. In life they entail extremely complex feedback loops as energy is channeled through chemical kinetics….Constraints regulate dynamic processes, but they don’t cause them.
Eric D. Schneider & Dorion Sagan, Into the Cool: Energy Flow Thermodynamics and Life (pg. 123)Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Far-from-equilibrium systems pay for their reduced entropy by exporting a concomitant increase in entropy into the surrounding environment….All organisms, not just human technological ones, produce waste.
Eric D. Schneider & Dorion Sagan, Into the Cool: Energy Flow Thermodynamics and Life
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Patricia Marx, The New Yorker of March 10, 2008.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
…the very origins of life can be traced to the energy flows of an energetic universe…Deep in the chemical cycles of present-day bacteria are metabolic pathways, chemical traces repeating, with variation, the steps by which matter came to life…paints a picture of energy-rich matter maintaining and making more of itself before genes evolved….The bodies and selves we consider living derive from complex cycles of energy transformation, cycles that only later developed genes….Life displays directional processes such as expansion, increase of taxa, and increased energy use over time that do not square with … random process.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Robespierre, as quoted by Colin Jones in the NYRB of December 20, 2007.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Quoted by Simon Leys in the New York Review of December 20, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Samuel Johnson to James Boswell, in his The Life of Samuel Johnson, upon being asked for advice on how to speak to the House of Commons.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Slobodan Selenic, Fathers and Forefathers
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Slobodan Selenic, Fathers and Forefathers
Friday, October 19, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Averell Harriman, as quoted by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr, New York Review of Books of October 11, 2007.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Auberon Waugh on his father Evelyn as quoted by John Banville in "The Family Pinfold," New York Review of Books of June 28, 2007
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Albert Einstein as quoted by Lee Smolin in "The Other Einstein" on how he keeps his cool, in the New York Review of Books, June 14, 2007.
Friday, September 07, 2007
Monday, September 03, 2007
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Edmund S. and Marie Morgan, “Our Shaky Beginning’s,” NYRB of April 26, 2007
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Milorad Pavic, Unique Item
Monday, June 04, 2007
Nick Paumgarten, “Elements of E-Style,” The New Yorker of April 16, 2007
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Stephen Greenblatt, "Shakespeare & the Uses of Power," New York Review of Books (April 12, 2007)
Friday, May 11, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Mesa Selimovic, Death and the Dervish
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Mesa Selimovic, Death and the Dervish
Friday, May 04, 2007
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Mesa Selimovic, Death and the Dervish