Saturday, January 29, 2011

The Science of Mechanics by Dr. Ernst Mach

The Science of Mechanics by Dr. Ernst Mach is a wildly accepted and a quintessential, intellectual, and scientific work that explores the inner workings and the axioms of science. I recommend this book to anyone who is heavily interested in science or who wants to explore its axioms.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Science-of-Mechanics/Ernst-Mach/e/9781435110670/?itm=3&USRI=the+science+of+mechanics

The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st- Century American Politics with an 18th- Century Brain by George Lakoff

The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st- Century American Politics with an 18th- Century Brain by George Lakoff is a book that explores politics and its correlation to humans from a scientific and/or cognitive perspective. By reading the synopsis of the book I found the book interesting and would recommend it to anyone who would also find this book interesting or who likes politics.
http://www.amazon.com/Political-Mind-Understand-21st-Century-18th-Century/dp/B0020MMBMG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1296320863&sr=1-1

Complexity and Simplicity

In the previous post I expressed my perceptions and conceptions towards science as a whole. This post is a continuation of its predecessor in terms of expressing what I think is the correlation and intertwining nature between complexity and simplicity in terms of intellectual forms as a whole. I think complexity and simplicity intellectually, are interwoven concepts that feed off the characteristics of one concept to create another one. Complexity and simplicity are two quantities and/or entities that are at both ends of a spectrum in which there is a medium between the two seemingly contrasting concepts. I assume complexity and simplicity come together when a ostensibly simple or simple-worded/processed concept actually holds a complex meaning. Complexity and simplicity also interact when a complex concept holds a simple meaning. Profound interpretations and progressions in my opinion form out of the bonding of complexity and simplicity. Complexity and simplicity both hold an aesthetic and disciplinary eminence.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Tool (band)

Tool is a band I deem reputable to the intellectual musical constructs of music. Tool combines unconventional and/or unusual time signatures along with envisioned lyricism and prolific art forms to create a heavy, complex, and stimulating assimilation of music. I recommend anyone who has not heard of this band (which I highly doubt) to give them a listen. 

Science and Complexity

Science and complexity. Two entities that I pursue and deem two of the fundamental axioms that shape nature and the world that all biotic and abiotic constituents inhibit. My perception and/or elucidation of science is a natural, complex, fundamental, and an entity in which it explains not only the origin and formation of the natural world but is also a discipline that requires innovation and accelerated thinking levels. I conceive science to hold a grand and cogent amount of intellectual mass and among other intellectual disciplines/entities a power that resonates among the lines of nature and the very formation of the Homo sapiens.
I deem science along with complexity to hold a sort of aesthetic value in their corresponding pure forms. I consider that society is lacking in the realms of not just science and complexity but just intellectualism in general. I perceive society only pays attention to intellectual realms and concepts only when in dire need of progression. I think the solution to the societal and educational problems of America is obviously to incorporate and promote more intellectualism in society and to see it more as having an aesthetic value than a repulsive value and/or factor.

Article from Scientific American

I read this article on the Scientific American website and deemed it significant and interesting to post the link to the article. Link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=science-that-matters