Chaos

With mathematics properly contextualized, I want to enliven a small section of the discipline that is relatively young called chaos theory. Specifically, I want to examine the theory with a focus on the metaphysical problem of determinism.

Taylor Parra | Vanderbilt Synesis | Fall 2017

Order, Disorder, Reorder

Why does work feel like work? Here is the end at the beginning: work is frustrating. It can be extremely satisfying to produce something, but it can be simultaneously excruciating – but what excellence and beauty can come from deep suffering. Early on in the semester, a man named Jeremy Begby spoke at Cornell.[1] He […]

Emani Pollard | Cornell Claritas | Spring 2017