An illustrated history of timekeeping from ancient times to the present ...

ENTROPY and the Second Law of Thermodynamics! Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics The second law of thermodynamics is a tendency Obstructions to the secondlaw make life possible The second law of thermodynamics and evolution and Gibbs free energy, DG = DH -TDS These are five big ideas involving the second law of thermo. Questions about them came from readers of http://www.secondlaw.com.

NONZERO THE LOGIC OF HUMAN DESTINY By ROBERT WRIGHT Home Thumbnail Summary Introduction Table of Contents and Excerpts Excerpts from Reviews About the Author Buy the Book Introduction PART I: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND 1. The Ladder of Cultural Evolution 2. The Way We Were 3. Add Technology and Bake for Five Millennia 4. The Invisible Brain 5. War: What Is It Good For 6. The Inevitability of ...

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THEORY REDUCTION: The Case of the Kinetic Theory of Gases Soshichi Uchii, Kyoto University, Japan (Acknowledgments: This paper was written in 1991 while I was a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. I wish to thank the Center for its generosity. This paper was read in a lunchtime colloquium at the Center, and also in Jim Joyce's seminar at the ...

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'Chaos' has rapidly approached 'quantum' as the favourite scientific buzz-word of crackpots, pseudo-scientists, and others of that ilk...

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics Statistical mechanics was the first foundational physical theory in which probabilistic concepts and probabilistic explanation played a fundamental role. For the philosopher it provides a crucial test case in which to ...

Reviews Created: 2000-05-31 Last Modified: 00-12-31 Go to Brad DeLong's Home Page Teaching | Writing | Career | Politics | Book Reviews | Information Economy | Economists | Multimedia | Students | Fine Print | Other | My Jobs Review of Robert Wright, Non-Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny* J. Bradford DeLong delong@econ.berkeley.edu http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/ May 2000 Robert Wright (2000), ...