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Any Officer Who Goes Into Action Without His Sword is Improperly Dressed

In 1940, some of the German commanders who were overseeing the push into France began to receive seemingly random rep...

Written by Jason Bellows • 06 May 2006 • Read →

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Eyewitnesses to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On 6 August 1945, a number of eyes in the Japanese city of Hiroshima turned skyward at the drone of a US B-29 bomber...

Written by Alan Bellows • 03 May 2006 • Read →

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Earth’s Artificial Ring: Project West Ford

At the height of the Cold War in the late 1950s, all international communications were either sent through undersea c...

Written by Anthony Kendall • 02 May 2006 • Read →

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Baseball and the Physicists

Without a doubt baseball has had more serious study behind it than any other major sport. It's hard to say why this i...

Written by Greg Bjerg • 29 Apr 2006 • Read →

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Pathological Laughing and Weeping

Dr. Schiffer’s patient was thirty-seven when he laughed his way through his best friend’s funeral. At that time he ha...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 26 Apr 2006 • Read →

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The Artificial Prison of the Human Mind

In 1971, a study about prisons was funded by the U.S. Navy to try to better understand problems in the Marine Corps.'...

Written by Daniel Lew • 21 Apr 2006 • Read →

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The Balance of Risk

Let’s suppose your child wants to take a martial arts class. Being a conscientious parent, you check out the local do...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 20 Apr 2006 • Read →

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Musical Torment

When the human ear encounters music, a number of brain systems are engaged by the incoming sound. The music signal is...

Written by Alan Bellows • 19 Apr 2006 • Read →

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America’s Discarded Superconducting Supercollider

Deep beneath the plains of central Texas lies a catacomb of tunnels once meant to house the most expensive physics ex...

Written by Anthony Kendall • 18 Apr 2006 • Read →

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Warm-Blooded Plants

If you live in the Northeastern US, and you walk in the woods on spring mornings, you're likely to see a skunk cabbag...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 15 Apr 2006 • Read →

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