[NOTE: This post originally appeared at our new home at Scientific American.] A few years ago, soon after moving to Los Angeles, an old grad …
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[Note: This post originally appeared at our new home at Scientific American.] One day in 1969, the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy convened in …
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[Cross-posted from our new home at Scientific American.] Imagine, if you will, a secret community dwelling beneath the streets of New York City, its inhabitants …
We are madly traveling about the world at the moment, en route to Doha, Qatar, for the World Conference of Science Journalists. So there is …
There's a lot of celebration, a lot of sorrowful remembrance, a lot of analysis and political posturing, a lot of heated opinion, and far too …
Over at Wired, David Dobbs has a very nice post on famed pitcher Sandy Koufax — excuse me, "the greatest pitcher ever" — and the …
One of the coolest things about physics is that the same basic concept can pop up in several seemingly unrelated things — say, a compact …
It's Halloween! Jen-Luc Piquant has donned her usual vampire costume for the occasion, although she was tempted to dress up as Lady Gaga this year, …
Co-blogger Lee might not have time to blog much these days — hey, she's swamped doing double teaching duty, with uber-long commutes — but she …
In 2002, cyberpunk authors William Gibson and Bruce Sterling collaborated on a historical thriller, The Difference Engine, in which the 19th century inventor Charles Babbage …
