February 2025

Kennen, Wissen, Können*

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

Significant Roles for Holes

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

An Exercise in Phase Space

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

A Notable Failed Effort To Explain Entropy

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