Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Brief Glimpses of the Sun

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Mathematics and Science: Last Essays 8 Last Essays But it is exactly because all things tend toward death that life is an exception ...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Oh Dear!... How Technology has Changed Things

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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beautya beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal t...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Nature is the Architect

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.....and we are it's builders? So beyond indeed, is the static realization of the structure of things. This is a more definable recognit...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Stargazers and Hill Climbers

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AS with Einstein, who was Socrates daemon?:) In Plato's Apology of Socrates, Socrates claimed to have a daimonion (literally, a "di...
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Saturday, February 07, 2009

Fulleranes and Allotropes

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"Composition VI", 1913, Wassily Kandinsky The term "Composition" can imply a metaphor with music. Kandinsky was fasc...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Bringing the Heavens Down to Earth

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" We all are of the citizens of the Sky " Camille Flammarion The Flammarion woodcut. Flammarion's caption translates to ...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Formation of Gravity

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Wegener proposed that the continents floated somewhat like icebergs in water. Wegener also noted that the continents move up and down to mai...

Permanence of Fact in Literature

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John Updike in 1955. John Hoyer Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Voxels

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A generalization of a voxel is the doxel , or dynamic voxel. This is used in the case of a 4D dataset, for example, an image sequence that r...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Where were you in 1969 or ....?

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The Introduction A man points to where the original Woodstock stage was in 1969. (Photo taken October 2006) I was twelves years old then. My...