This article was extracted from one I wrote for Gift of Fire, issue 133, 46-47 (November 2002). There is more to knowledge than a vague familiarity, or lexicographical and…Read more
February 2025
February 2025
When a unique concept such as a ‘useful hole’ has been shown to help in understanding the workings of nature in one field, it is natural to consider analogous…Read more
It can be shown that there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible permutations, i.e., ‘states’, of the 3×3 Rubik’s Cube. This is a huge space of possibilities, but there are approaches to meandering…Read more
I think it is fair to say that if Donald Trump were ever to become aware of, and then bestow his brilliance on, the subject of entropy, he would…Read more