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Perspective
An ordered perspective on a chaotic system, words and sentences, numbers and tables, precipitate from raw unkempt haphazard nature. Patterns settle out kaleidoscopically, a desk, pen and paper, concentration, review and edit making sense at least superficial. A changed perspective on … Continue reading
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Tagged humanity, learning, life, nature, order, perspective, randomness, research, science, understanding
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Phase Transition
Sublimation, Glass transition, Sintering and liquefaction, Substance changes In extremis, All predictions are but guesses. Observation, Experimentation, These reveal what alteration <> <> <> Has taken place, What new-formed face Appears upon each change of phase. © Samuel Birrer and … Continue reading
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Tagged change, change of state, chemistry, experiment, humanity, life, observe, phase transition, rhyme, science, thoughts, transition
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Crystalline
But “defects” do not damage the design:
Each merely adds its own imprint… Continue reading
Posted in Free Verse, Poetry, Unsorted Thoughts
Tagged art, chemistry, crystal, education, learning, models, nature, science, structure, thoughts, truth, uncertainty, understanding
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IF ONLY
The greatest thought
In the universe
Once formed, was soon forgot Continue reading
Verne’s Mysterious Island
A review of Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island. Following in the footsteps of Daniel Defoe, Jules Verne wrote his own ship-wreck novel, The Mysterious Island, the tale of a group of castaways in the southern Pacific. In this novel, however, … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, classics, island, Jules Verne, mystery, science, science fiction
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Twenty Thousand Leagues with Jules Verne
A short review of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea for any fellow bibliophiles! The first book on my reading list for this summer (at least the first one I got around to reading – I don’t have a specific … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, classics, Jules Verne, mystery, science, science fiction, sea
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