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Size Matters: A brief look at the Milky Way Galaxy

 Here's something that will give your brain a nice seismic jolt.  The size of our own galaxy.  Because light is so fast, speeding though space at 670 million miles per hour, a single light year is...

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The Universe is Flat and Other Improbables

Apparently, the Earth is round, but the universe is flat. On June 30, 2001,  a Delta II rocket launched the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe  or WMAP.  What sounds like a horrible medical procedure...

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The Artistry of the Atom

"... the nature of the perpetual things consist of small particles infinite in number... the particles are so small as to be imperceptible to us, and take all kinds of shapes and all kinds of forms and...

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Shakespeare Quickie

I heard this from Peter Saccio, a Professor at Dartmouth College.  A study of Skakespear's plays from the first printed folio revealed that he had a vocabulary of 27,000 words. In contrast, the King...

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Hans Bethe and the Twinkle

If you've ever heard of Hans Bethe, raise your virtual hand.  Because he is the great unknown in the general public, but a source of admiration in the world of nuclear physics.  To put it on my level,...

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The Little Theater That Could. The Journey of a play: A Man for All Seasons...

A young woman with a bright wedge of marmalade-colored hair nervously puffed on a cigarette and then kissed her boyfriend goodbye.  She quickly passed by me and whispered confidentially, “I don’t know...

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Finding the Perfect Sir Thomas.

Robert Bolt found his ideal More in Paul Scofield, an actor of extraordinary intelligence noteworthy for his stage presence, distinctive voice and for the unmannered intensity of his delivery.  He was...

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Thoughts on EndPoint and Other Poems by John Updike.

John Updike’s prose was so rich and intimate that I never felt compelled to pry into his life beyond the printed page.  But his final book, Endpoint and Other Poems is an invitation to see him beyond...

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Sense and Sensibility. John Updike In Football Season

In late November 1961, a 29-year-old John Updike finished the draft of his short story, In Football Season. Since we share equally aquiline noses, this story has always been among my favorites.  It is...

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Some thoughts on paradox

  Writing about paradox is like experiencing an Escher drawing. Every idea is undermined by the plausibility and inevitability of its opposite.   The word itself usually finds itself in the domain of...

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