Anne’s, Professor Forrant explained that geographically it was amid other places notable in Lowell’s struggles over slavery. Across the street from the church, today’s Enterprise Bank building was then Lowell City Hall with a function room on the upper floor the was the frequent site of ...
…and one fromNed Hilton, and a new perspective on flying… …on to Sept. 29, 1934, with a cover byArnold Hall, who produced at least twelve covers forThe New Yorkerbetween 1933 and 1939… Sept. 29, 1934 cover byArnold Hall. …and we go straight to ads, beginning with this alarming...
In the fall, Dave McCall stopped me in the hall and said, ``Hamming, that remark of yours got underneath my skin. I thought about it all summer, i.e. what were the important problems in my field. I haven't changed my research,'' he says, ``but I think it was well worthwhile.'...
The context is the recent flap over a poster presented by Kevin Hall which has started re-trying the case of whether all diets have the same metabolic efficiency, a question which, in my view, has been adjudicated several times. I put it this way because frequently I have made an analogy...
It is a common put-down of audiophiles: "You're imagining things." But is this a meaningful criticism? Is there a real difference between "reality" and "illusion"? Or was Professor Dumbledore on to something? I have been interested in human perception almost as long as I...
In the fall, Dave McCall stopped me in the hall and said, "Hamming, that remark of yours got underneath my skin. I thought about it all summer, i.e. what were the important problems in my field. I haven't changed my research," he says, "but I think it was well worthwhile." And...
Ironically, about 45 years ago and a few years before her death, I happened to be at Boston University’s Hayden Hall, when a fellow named Bill Baird was arrested for giving out birth control information. And, for what reason was he arrested? It was against the law in Massachusetts to ...
It's just as if you have a bowl (**) and are trying to climb a hall where there' a hole you can go into -the volcano hole- a deep one, it's rolling along and doesn't go down in the deep hole because it starts to climb the hill and goes away again. But if you make it ...
mobility by measuring the Hall Effect with an enormous magnet—I once stuck my hand in the magnet but felt nothing, despite all the ions in my nerves presumably pressing against one side. I later worked for a mineral-processing laboratory, where I learned to pan for gol...
There were no steps to go up, there was no entrance hall, no space specially provided for crowds of visitors; simply nothing but an ordinary street-door opening directly on the street, and very little, if any, broader or higher than those of the private houses adjacent. There was not ...