ג וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר.

[3. And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light.]

- God, Genesis 1.

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- James Clerk Maxwell (1865), ‘A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 155, p. 459-512.

Red coated leaves like soldiers,

Fall,

In a last salute to the sky,

Dead.

- Camilla Loyd

Appiah’s rather simplistic case is economically naïve, and shallow in places. Still, I think it largely succeeds in attaining what it sets out to do, and is yet worth reading – although the lack of depth will be frustrating to some.

… is about to begin

{Turley, C., Blackford, J., Widdicombe, S., Lowe, D., Nightingale, P.D. and A.P. Rees, A.P., (2006), ‘Reviewing the impact of increased atmospheric CO2 on oceanic pH and the marine ecosystem’. In: Schellnhuber, H J., Cramer,W., Nakicenovic, N., Wigley, T. and Yohe, G (Eds), Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 8, p. 65-70}

(Trans) Transitivity

p □→ q, q □→ r, therefore p □→ r

(Contr) Contraposability

p □→ q, therefore ~q □→ ~p

(Stren) Strengthening

p □→ q, therefore (p & r) □→ q

Stand by me

A cute and simple overview of the landscape.

The classic study.