In 1943 Biuku Gasa—shown recently on the shore near his home—was one of the first two people to make contact with a shipwrecked Lt. John F. Kennedy. Kennedy and his crew had been stranded for days on deserted islands after a Japanese destroyer sank their boat PT-109.

During World War II Gasa and other Solomon Islanders [...]

If…, a book by the California artist, Sarah Perry, introduces children to an imaginative look at our world. Picture whales flying through the expanse of space, or fish hanging from branches as leaves. Every page of this book presents a new and creative possibility.

This book has been a favorite of my class and has inspired [...]

Quantum theory is the most successful scientific theory of all time. Many of the great names of physics are associated with quantum theory. Heisenberg and Schrödinger established the mathematical form of the theory, while Einstein and Bohr analysed many of its important features. However, it was John Bell who investigated quantum theory in the greatest [...]

Theoretical physicists have recently been frustrated by a bold hypothesis concerning black holes—specifically, that they don’t exist.

George Chapline, an applied physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, gave a talk based on ideas he’s been incubating for several years.

Source: Seed Magazine

Gwyneth Paltrow plays Helen in this 1998 film. Helen is fired from her job at a PR company and when the sliding doors of the tube car close on her, we start to see what would have happened if she’d made the train, and if she hadn’t.

Source: IMDB