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Transcript of oral history interview.
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Five of Maxwell's Papers by James Clerk Maxwell
Clerk Maxwell's Matter And Motion. -- Though most of those who have devoted themselves to the subject will agree with the author that Physical Science has now arrived at a stage "in which the energy of a material system is conceived as determined by the configuration and motion of that system, and in which the ideas of configuration, motion, and force are generalized to the utmost extent warranted by their physical definitions," yet few of our writers on elementary physics seem to bear this as much in mind as they should do. So indifferent indeed are many of them to the claims of their readers to be instructed as regards the real state of our knowledge at the present time, that those points ...
How FBI surveillance influenced African American writing Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau’s intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels. Starting in 1919, year one of Harlem’s renaissance and Hoover’s career at the Bureau, secretive FBI "ghostreaders" monitored the latest developments in African American letters. By the time of Hoover’s deat...
Over 130 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his hypothetical "demon" as a challenge to the scope of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted throughout the development of statistical and quantum physics, information theory, and computer science, and links have been established between Maxwell's demon and each of