POETRY MONDAY: JUNE 1, 2020
By Categories: Literature

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JIM HABA            

Good morning, everyone.  A bit cooler today, in our new two-seasons-only weather here in the northeastern U.S.  I hope you’re still well.
Full disclosure: Our poet today is one we’ve featured before  (back in 2010, actually), and also my co-editor for an anthology just released by IPBooks: What They Bring: The Poetry of Migration and Immigration.  But there’s a bigger reason for my re-introducing you to Jim Haba today.  When you see the book you’ll note that the striking cover is from a painting by Erica Barton Haba, Jim’s wife and longtime artistic partner, a dear person lost to all of us just a few months ago.

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Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order
By Categories: Science

Click Here to Read: Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order: By chewing on the problems posed by “extremal” black holes, physicists have exposed a surprising and universal connection between energy and entropy by Natalie Wolchover on the Quanta website on May 28, 2020.
Extremal Kerr-Newman black hole  Image: Yukterez (Simon Tyran, Vienna). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.