Share this on WhatsApp Originally published in January 1898 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “When Jules Verne wrote his fascinating book, ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ [1873], he aimed to show the utmost that could be accomplished by the means of transportation of his day. A quarter of a century later we are near the […]
Share this on WhatsApp COVID-19 packs its punch largely through uncertainty. If the virus were visible to our eyes, we could have avoided it and conducted the rest of our business as usual. It’s not only that we cannot see the virus itself, but that we also don’t see its symptoms in some of the […]
Share this on WhatsApp My girlfriend, “Emily,” is always telling me I have to read this or watch that. I usually resist. I have my own obsessions to indulge, like quantum mechanics. What’s annoying is that her recommendations, when I grudgingly comply with them, often turn out to be sound. This happened with two of […]
