Archive for October, 2003

Journal Quote of the Day

Thursday, October 30th, 2003

“Maybe this is not a subject that would normally be regarded as fundamental”

(M. Marder, “The Shape of the Edge of a Leaf”, in Foundations of Physics, Vol. 33, No. 12, December 2003, p. 1743)

Marder also discusses flowers.

Journal Quote of the Day

Saturday, October 25th, 2003

“Shakespeare is just as little about the brain as Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is about the weather”

(Beatrice de Gelder and Nouchine Hadjikhani, “Review of The Bard on the Brain: Understanding the Mind Through the Art of Shakespeare and the Science of Brain Imaging”, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 7, Iss. 11 , November 2003, pp. 479-480).

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Buffy, Jesus, Buddha. Some Important Moral Considerations.

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003

“After all, the fact that each of us has different abilities and relationships from the paradigm virtuous person (Buffy, Jesus, Buddha . . .) may well affect whether we indeed should do what that person would do. For example, it is not morally right for Xander to take on a pack of vampires alone, even [...]

An Existential Query

Monday, October 13th, 2003

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A Brief Note On Unity

Thursday, October 9th, 2003

Making the news early in 1996 was the revelation that piles of rice behave in importantly different ways to piles of sand (Frette et al, 1996). Alas, thus it was shown that piles of sand cannot model all of the “omnipresent multi-scale structures throughout the natural world” (Creutz, 1997), as many scientists, perhaps trying too [...]