Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural ...
On the top of the whole was fixed a wreath of gold and precious stones; and within this, the symbol of the Saviour's name, two letters indicating the name of Christ by means of its initial characters, the letter P being intersected by X in its centre...(Eusebius. The Life of Consta...
Students attending marginal schools bear the greatest burden. Their schools use a business model that relies on federal student loan dollars to fill classrooms. Because schools have no accountability for their graduates’ poor employment outcomes, they are free todip ever deeper into the well of unq...
Wild animals were ferocious brutes, native people were "savages" and adventurers carried the white man's burden of civilizing the natives. All this was greatly exciting to the intended audience, though The Times retrospectively described the magazine as being about "brave chaps with large moustaches...
Mother Teresa's letter started our second 15 minutes of fame. The newspaper reporters, TV crews and DJ calls started all over again. The Big Time this time was a call from the producers of CNN's Burden of Proof. They wanted us to debate Mother Teresa's attorney on the show. Mother Te...