The useful distinction is between materials that store energy in their shape and materials that store it in their disorder. A spring does the first and rubber does the second,…
Maya Linton
The design problem is not producing light. It is producing light that carries a specific identifiable message to somebody several miles away who needs to know exactly which coast they…
There is a question that sounds unanswerable and turns out to be a geometry problem.
How far away is a star? You cannot go there. You cannot bounce anything off…
There is a persistent belief that some people speak with an accent and others speak normally.
It is not true in any technical sense, and the belief itself is worth…
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Medieval chronicles contain a great deal of material that is obviously not literal. Portents, marvels, signs and wonders appear regularly, and historians read them as they were meant —…
There is a specific social awkwardness that everybody has encountered from one side and nobody from both.
Visiting an unfamiliar house, you register its smell immediately — not unpleasant necessarily,…