The heart-shaped boxes are empty. The milk chocolate hearts have been divested of their red foil wraps. Valentine’s week has come and gone.
Articles with 1993
Elementary particles — is that all there is to us?
Songwriter Meredith Willson thought he knew why the sky is blue and birds sing. Nobel-prizewinning physicist Steven Weinberg thinks he knows too.
Out of the office, but never out of the loop
Later this week, thousands of scientists from around the world will gather in Boston for the [1993] annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They will lug to the meeting laptop computers, modems, fax machines, cellular telephones, beepers. Circuits in and out of Boston will be humming.
Just dial ‘N’ to order an offspring with ‘niceness’
Are you ready for this? Sperm sorting. I’m not kidding.
Particle accelerators and matters of faith
It is a common conceit among high-energy particle physicists to compare their giant accelerating machines to the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages.
The passing of the venerable slide rule
My father’s slide rule. I found it at the back of a bureau drawer during a recent visit to my mother’s home in Tennessee.
The shifting spectrum on animal rights
My walk to and from work each day takes me through land administered by the Natural Resources Trust of Easton. It was there I met the deer.
Australia’s furry little beast could be the perfect symbol
News from Down Under: Koalas are under siege.