'Report on Tait's Lecture on Force:— B.A., 1876', reproduced in Bruce Clarke, Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics (2001), 19. Maxwell's verse was inspired by a paper delivered at the British Association (B.A.. He was satirizing a “considerable...
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I was squirming in my seat right up until when the folk artist who was performing before me told the crowd that if we were trapped in a gas chamber she would be the one to start singing “Kumbaya.” And then she sang Kumbaya. My nerves settled almost completely as my purpose for being...
The mere fact that we’re entering an era of commercial space flight is enough to make this a significant milestone, but it gets even more interesting when you break it down: 1. SpaceX was started by Elon Musk, the creator of PayPal and an early internet entrepreneur, who is now ...
To the limitedBavarian evidence we can add an Alemannicparallel, which isfascinating but unfortunatelynomore enlightening: Wetti, in chapter 35 of his lifeof St Gallus (written between 816 and824), also calls the inhabitants of ArbonistiRomani.It is important to note, however,that this phrase ...
Yet from where we currently stand, 17 and a bit years in the clear, you really get a sense of an era of bountiful cultural riches. The decade gave birth to some supreme talents, from Paul Thomas Anderson to Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson. Yet in compiling this survey we’ve chosen ...
He and my great aunt Anne, who was English, traveled extensively and radiated sophisticated late-seventies cosmopolitanism in an era when my own family was scruffily academic. David had the first electronic calculator that I ever saw, a delightful piece of technological sorcery. I will forever ...
Some of the costumes looked as though they owed their inspiration to Bakst's designs for the Russian ballet—or perhaps Bakst obtained his ideas in Djokjakarta; others were strongly reminiscent of Louis XIV's era, of the courts of the great Indian princes, of the Ziegfeld Follies84. The ...