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I more usually tend to present my dis-avowal of smoking as a kind of glorious epiphany.
Why the cosmology may not start or end with a big bang.
When I was a boy, my family was small: my parents, my mother’s parents, and my older brother.
Sixty years ago the world was staring at a nuclear cataclysm.
It is now doubtful that the Kremlin would be able to set up a solid “separation line”.
Holonyak left GE in 1963 to become a professor of electrical and computer engineering and researcher at his alma mater.
Of all the endless questions children and mathematicians have asked about infinity, one of the biggest has to do with its size.
An elusive form of matter called a quantum spin liquid isn’t a liquid, and it doesn’t spin — but it sure is quantum.
The renowned literary critic famously withheld his imprimatur from the books of peers and students, with two notable exceptions. What do they reveal?
The story of a working-class radical from Ireland who became a celebrated monk and challenged the British Empire in Asia.
Arguing well isn’t just about winning. A philosophical approach will help you and the other person get much more out of it.
Today, in a new era of war and geopolitical rivalry, it is energy once again — this time gas — that’s threatening to tear that unity apart.
Those of us who are able to see what is in front of our eyes acknowledge the vast gulf between humans and even our nearest primate kin.
A man was walking ahead of us, a tall man wearing a cap and black leather jacket.
This dramatization of what could happen as 1999 became 2000 was obviously ridiculous.