Forty-one years ago today [in 1953], James Watson and Francis Crick published a paper in the journal Nature announcing their discovery of the structure of DNA.
Articles with 1994
Getting there not half the fun it once was
A few weeks ago, I noted the lack of a high-speed travel link between Boston and New York, and proposed several solutions, some serious, some whimsical.
Are you reading this, aliens?
Professor John Mack is going big time.
Life among the whatchamacallits
What is a fluglebinder? OK, it’s a trick question. There is no way you could know the answer unless you happened to see a Tom Cruise movie called “Cocktail.”
Is this any way to run a railroad?
Bostonians deserve better. They deserve a better way to travel to their bigger neighbor 200 miles away.
Natty Bumppo’s early warning
“…the immense piles of snow that, by alternate thaws and frosts, and repeated storms, had obtained a firmness which threatened a tiresome durability.”
Bumping down the information highway
Dear Mr. Computer, I’m thinking about buying a laptop computer.
Chicago, December 1942
Physicist Albert Wattenberg was poking about in the Chicago branch of the National Archives recently. He was looking for artifacts used by Enrico Fermi and his team of nuclear physicists in achieving the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction in a squash court under the University of Chicago’s football stadium in December 1942.
In defense of the dull and boring
This from a correspondent: “I suspect that science makes scientists happier than it does other people.”
What the other half wants
“Ah, women. What do they want?” asks GQ magazine on the cover of the February [1994] issue. The question has been on male minds at least since Valentine’s Day, one million B.C.