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June 24, 2012

Riff on Goethe

By Amit Majmudar

Versatility is the least of poetic virtues. It may seem an impressive sign of poetic prowess to be able to turn out a poem on any subject, in any of […]

June 8, 2012

Poetry and Entropy

By Amit Majmudar

It’s not often that the nuclear radiologist in me shows up on this blog, but Dr. Majmudar—reader of medical images created by measuring positron annihilations and differential tissue attenuation—would like […]