The Curious Wavefunction

Ignaz Semmelweis We seem to live in a time when skepticism of science and its experts runs deep and where political mandarins of all persuas...

Werner Heisenberg was on a boat with Niels Bohr and a few friends, shortly after he discovered his famous uncertainty principle in 1927. A b...

I was quite saddened to hear about the passing of Steven Weinberg, perhaps the dominant living figure from the golden age of particle physic...

Two men walking in Princeton, New Jersey on a stuffy day. One shaggy-looking with unkempt hair, avuncular, wearing a hat and suspenders, loo...

Billionaire-mathematician Jim Simons has been called the most successful investor of all time. His Renaissance Technologies hedge fund has r...

A superb book on the last year of the war in the Pacific Theater, full of incredible details about underappreciated leaders like Raymond Spr...