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Entropy

"Spaced Out"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 04.01.2013 | Comedy
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Jerry Zezima

I didn't major in physics in college, though I do have a BS in life, but I know that one of the principles of this fascinating science is that any space will be filled -- except, of course, the one between my ears.

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Science's Sacred Cows (Part 7): Reductionism

Dave Pruett | Posted 03.19.2013 | Science
Read More: Quantum Physics, Philosophy of Science, Human Genome, Entropy, Epigenetics, Psychology, Human Genome Project, Religion Science, Higgs Particle, Science Spirituality, Science News
Dave Pruett

Reductionism has its limitations. Is a human being -- one who bristles at injustice, weeps at Pachelbel's Canon, loves her children, is awestruck by beauty, and craves chocolate -- simply the product of Pavlov's conditioned reflexes to stimuli?

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Can Black Holes Tell Us Something About Digital Computers?

Mario Livio | Posted 03.10.2013 | Science
Read More: Hawking Radiation, John Archibald Wheeler, Digital Computer, Entropy, Einstein's General Relativity, Black Holes, M87, Albert Einstein, Jacob Bekenstein, Science News
Mario Livio

Until the early 1970s, no one could see any relevance of these curious objects to what one might call everyday physics.

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God As Ordering Force Of The Universe

Joshua Stanton | Posted 11.09.2012 | Religion
Read More: Religion, Confusion, Rabbi, Vietnam, Atheism, Entropy, Science, Spain, Belief, God, Understanding, Judaism, Universe, Kaplan, Religion News
Joshua Stanton

How and why would God speak to me personally when there might be infinite other creatures on infinite numbers of other planets likewise seeking connection to the Divine?

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Life, Death And Entropy

Matthew Zaro Fisher | Posted 10.23.2012 | Religion
Read More: Eastern Religions, Entropy, Philosophy, Death & Dying, Jainism, Death, Religion News
Matthew Zaro Fisher

What is the purpose of existence? In the face of existence we ask God, ask ourselves: Why is the path from life to death adorned by both the joys of creation and the sorrows of corruption?

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Have Scientific Questions? There Are No 'Answers in Genesis'

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.04.2012 | Religion
Read More: Thermodynamics, Entropy, Creationism, Presidential Politics, Ken Ham, Evolution, Biblical Sin, Answers in Genesis, Science Education, Religion and Science, The Clergy Letter Proejct, Religion News
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.

When we permit theology to define our science, we end up with gibberish, but not even consistent gibberish.

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Entropy, Negentropy And Our Moral Imagination

James O'Dea | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Religion and Science, Religion Science, Moral Imagination, Entropy, Negentropy, Science and Spirituality, Holy Order of Nature, Environmental Destruction, Morality, Consciousness Shift, Conscious Evolution, Social Healing, Healthy Living Spirit, Healthy Living News
James O'Dea

The moral core of the universe produced the exquisite balance for life on Earth. Only a moral imagination can restore what our immoral greed and flagrant excess has wrecked.

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Corroded infrastructure 2010/Robert Smithson's Writings on Entropy, 1966-67

Mira Schor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Idealism, Entropy, Bob Herbert, New York Times, Infrastructure, Robert Smithson, Activism, Samuel Beckett, Arts News
Mira Schor

This week my graduate seminar students (at Parsons Fine Arts MFA) and I had a great discussion leading from Robert Smithson's writings on entropy to i...

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Black Holes: Universe To End Sooner Than Thought

Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Heat Death, Black Holes Universe, End of Universe, Entropy, Black Holes, End of the World, Technology News

Space is getting to be a nasty place: not only did NASA bomb the moon, but new scientific research suggests the universe will end sooner than previous...

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