Impossible Kisses

Faraday has left a strange legacy. On one hand, everybody admires him both as an individual and as a scientist. A recent, affectionate biogr...

It is not to be supposed for a moment that speculations of this kind are useless, or necessarily hurtful, in natural philosophy. They shoul...

That the metal of the magnet itself might be substituted for the moving cylinder, disc, or wire, seemed an inevitable consequence, and yet o...

But it is not altogether satisfactory to contemplate a material that is inactive magnetically. ... And in general—what is the relation bet...

This is Ximena Gonzalez . She is the exercise girl for Telemundo’s morning show, Cada Día . This is Rex Grossman . He is the exercise girl...

Normally on Friday I like to put up a post that is some kind of summary or conclusion or final statement of topics for that week. Today, ho...

This morning I got up a little earlier than normal. I forced myself to my feet, forced myself out into the backyard, because I wanted to ch...

The colored pastel stick will bewitch you, without question. It is particularly satisfying to the minds of those curious types for whom the...

Mischa has wardrobe malfunction at charity show Bang! Showbiz Tuesday, 11 September 2007 Mischa Barton shocked guests at a children's ch...

This is a photo of Capricornus I found on the Web. It was taken with a wide angle lens so the stars appear much closer together than they d...

I certainly think it'll be an interesting--almost metaphysical--moment if we finally have a simple rule which we can tell is our univers...

Indian scholars predated Newton find by 250 yrs 15 Aug 2007, 0015 hrs IST,PTI LONDON: A little-known school of scholars in south India disco...

The most famous mathematical mystic was no doubt Blaise Pascal. In answering those of his contemporaries who objected to reasoning with inf...

If Isaac Newton had known Britney Spears , would he have died a virgin?

Isaac Newton’s first great work appeared in 1687—on Halley’s dime—under the title Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy . Its succe...

This weekend our suburb is having its big Fall festival. This is when we thank the Gods for our bountiful harvest. So far as I know, howev...

If you read just about any book about oil pastels published for the art market, you get a ‘history’ of the medium built around Pablo Picasso...

Bee dates orchids back to time of dinosaurs Mark Henderson, © Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. The earliest evidence of orchids shows th...

I did some cool star hopping over the weekend. (No, sadly, I don’t mean I went dancing with Lindsay Lohan and Tara Reid.) Star hopping is ...

So Michael Vick has been suspended by the NFL. The Falcons want him to repay a ton of money they gave him. And his lawyer bills look like ...