A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and U niverse
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A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and U niverse
Wiener was as worldly as Shannon was reticent. He was well traveled and polyglot, ambitious and socially aware; he took science personally and passionately. His expression of the second law of thermodynamics, for example, was a cry of the heart: We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization, which tends to reduce everything to
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“When things don’t change any longer, that’s the end result of entropy, the heat-death of the universe. The more things go on moving, interrelating, conflicting, changing, the less balance there is—and the more life. I’m pro-life, George. Life itself is a huge gamble against the odds, against all odds! You can’t try to live safely, there’s no such
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If one were to ascribe a specific date to the dawn of modern climate science, a strong case could be made for August 23, 1856—though its significance went unrecognized for 150 years. Eunice Newton Foote was an artist, inventor, citizen scientist, and early suffragist from upstate New York whose singular contribution to climate science was lost in p
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