The Curious Wavefunction

I n the 19th century it was coal and steel, in the 20th century it was oil and gas, what will it be in the 21st century? The answer, accordi...

It’s Thanksgiving weekend here in the U.S., and there’s an informal tradition on Thanksgiving to give thanks for all kinds of things in our ...

A beautifully written account of mathematics lost and found. The author got "estranged" from mathematics in school and now, at th...

There's a rather strange article by Temple Grandin in the Atlantic, parts of which had me vigorously nodding my head and parts of which...

I have been wanting to write about David McCullough who passed away recently and whose writings I always enjoyed. McCullough was admittedly ...

In the history of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos has always been the star, and Hanford and Oak Ridge where plutonium and uranium respecti...

It wasn’t very long ago that I was rather enamored with the  New Atheist  movement, of which the most prominent proponent was Richard Dawkin...

Newton rightly decried that science progresses by standing on the shoulders of giants. But his often-quoted statement applies even more broa...

There's a very nice tribute to Steven Weinberg by Brian Greene and John Preskill that I came across recently that is worth watching. We...

For a brief period earlier this week, social media and the world at large seemed to stop squabbling about politics and culture and united in...