In 2017, Australian civil engineer Ramil Nigmatullin (
Ѻ), who relies on
far from equilibrium models, at the engineering and information technologies department at the
University of Sydney, raised
81,000 USD in funding, to support (
Ѻ)(
Ѻ) a 3-year $27K annual stipend allowance for “student undertaking a PhD in social thermodynamics [aimed at] developing a framework to model social systems (e.g. urban development) using the state of the art techniques of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics”.
Thims | MailCubes.comSee main: Department of Physico-Chemical Humanities
In 2017,
Libb Thims began working to bring
MailCubes, a smart package mailbox company, into realization, to become the world's leading home smart technology delivery package receptacle company, an under-girding aim of which, to solve, via the "
funding problem", the issues related to the two cultures "
calls", "
inquiries", and "
tensions", is to found the world's first established and permanent "Chair of Physico-Chemical Sociology", thereafter seeded in such a manner to grow in the world's first department of
physicochemical humanities (see:
course outline).
As of May 2019, Thims, in this direction, had partnered with
Brian Willcox of UK-based BrizeBox.com, had raised about
20,000 USD in capital, was selling units in Chicago, via the online
MailCubes.com storefront (
Ѻ), the main page of which, being footnoted with the curly d symbol “∂”, for the
partial derivative, introduced in 1786 by French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre:

In addition to the online storefront, an established Amazon.com storefront (
Ѻ), with annual US and Canada sales figures in the
5,000 (actual)
to 40,000 USD (projected)
range had been established (a
work-in-progress).
In 2019,
Mirza Beg, during his interview (see:
Beg-Thims interview) with
Libb Thims, Karachi, Pakistan, asked Thims about the
Institute of Human Thermodynamics, which led to a 10-min discussion on the proposed Chair of Physico-Chemical Sociology". [2]
QuotesThe following are related quotes:
“It would be hard to introduce politics or morality into a chemical thermodynamics class (without veering off topic).”
— Gerard Harbison (2016), “Tweet (Ѻ) to @dfreelon”, Aug 4