Journalists are supposed to provide unbiased reporting and penetrating analysis. And scientists are supposed to relentlessly probe the fabric of reality with the most rigorous and skeptical of methods. All too often, however, what should be just isn’t so. In a number of scientific fields, ...
were all intended to show feature films in existing movie theaters. They required the installation of wider and larger screens, but rarely entailed other changes to the basic geometry of the auditoriums, which, before the days of the multiplex, were usually quite deep relative to the height of...