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On Tuesday at 6:14 am, Wikipedia contributors created the very first entry for Donna Strickland, the University of Waterloo laser physicist who, just minutes earlier, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. With that announcement, she became just the third…
The 2018 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists — including one woman — for advancing the science of lasers and creating extremely useful tools out of laser beams. The winners include Arthur Ashkin, 96, a retired…
But the Soviet one is different; parts of it are altered. Photographer Yevgeny Khaldei superimposed dark smoke from another photo and manipulated the contrast to give the scene more drama. The comparison below shows the original and the altered version…
This Saturday, October 6th, at 10 A.M., at the SVA Theatre, I’ll have the privilege of interviewing the documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman as part of The New Yorker Festival. Wiseman, it is safe to say, has the most illustrious career…
When I was seven or eight years old, my mother’s father, Gene Ellis, bought a large pontoon boat, which he docked at a remote cove on Kaw Lake, not far from the small town where we lived, Ponca City, Oklahoma.…
The news comes a day after a German court ruled to extradite Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi, who is suspected to be an intelligence agent, to Belgium, as he had allegedly attempted to stage a terrorist attack. France decided to seize the…
