http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPJ6GMXM3E&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:36:30 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPJ6GMXM3E&feature=youtube_gdata http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/eureka/article6934963.ece There is something stirring in the world of science writing. Since it emerged as a labelled corner of the bookshop, the genre has been dominated by practising scientists who also write; Dawkins way ahead of the pack, then Steve Jones and Richard Fortey. Bill Bryson, of course, is the great exception but he is sui generis — millions would buy his take on the history of beer mats if that’s what he wrote about. But this year’s winner of the Royal Society science book prize, science’s Booker, was Richard Holmes for The Age of Wonder. He is our great Romantic… ]]> Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:07:00 -0700 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/eureka/article6934963.ece http://users.belgacom.net/wagnerlibrary/prose/wagartfut.htm AS Man stands to Nature, so stands Art to Man. When Nature had developed in herself those attributes which included the conditions for the existence of Man, then Man spontaneously evolved. In like manner, as soon as human life had engendered from itself the conditions for the manifestment of Art-work, this too stepped self-begotten into life. Nature engenders her myriad forms without caprice or arbitrary aim ("absichtlos und unwillkürlich"), according to her need ("Bedürfniss"), and therefore of Necessity ("Nothwendigkeit"). This same Necessity is the generative and formative force of human life. Only that which is un-capricious and un-arbitrary can spring… ]]> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:37:00 -0700 http://users.belgacom.net/wagnerlibrary/prose/wagartfut.htm