Archive for January, 2011

Jan 09 2011

Aims

Published by under Philosophy

“You will seek not a near, but a distant, objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you have done. All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern, which from his separate approach every true scholar is striving to descry.” Aims of the Harvard Society […]

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Jan 05 2011

How Things Happen

Published by under Complexity Theory

D uring an evening patrol two policemen notice an elderly gentleman scouring the ground around a lamppost. Venturing over, they ask him what he is doing. “Looking for my car keys,” replies the gentleman. “Are you sure that this is where you dropped them?” asks one of the policemen. “Actually, no. I think I dropped […]

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