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Archive for April, 2008

Science | 12 Apr 2008

The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments

Beauty is truth, Keats declared, and truth beauty. Many prominent scientists have wished a version of this famous equation described their own work. The British quantum theorist Paul Dirac, for one, called his career “a search for pretty mathematics.” Most scientific aesthetes gaze fondly upon equations or arrangements of facts. A few, like the science [...]

Thought Provoking | 10 Apr 2008

Pencil & Eraser

It’s been 150 years since the eraser attached itself to the pencil. We can only assume that Hymen Lipman was a man who made his fair share of mistakes, but we all benefited from them when he got a patent for sticking the eraser on the pencil, on this date in 1858. Lipman’s early version [...]

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