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Physicist Melissa Franklin would love to have a dream dinner with Samuel Beckett or Richard Feynman, but she’s afraid she’d get nervous and make a fool of herself.
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Physicist Melissa Franklin recommends you avoid trying to control where your ideas take you—instead, let them do their own thing.
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Empirical scientists won’t stop making fun of popular science icons like Brian Greene, but that doesn’t mean they don’t love them.
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Melissa Franklin stays up at night concerned mainly about how her son is doing in Little League; though she worries about bigger problems, they aren’t tangible enough to make her […]
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Why is a group of brilliant scientists spending millions to find the smallest particles in the universe? As it turns out, they will be able to teach us a lot […]
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Will the new Large Hadron Collider create an earth-consuming black hole? Highly unlikely, says the Harvard physicist, but if it did, “it wouldn’t be so bad.”
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Supercolliders are expensive to build and maintain, slow to get going, become obsolete as soon as a new one is built, and are shooting for discoveries that even physicists are […]
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Melissa Franklin had her share of challenges n the male-dominated world of physics: colleagues made passes at her, they asked her not talk, and were generally “less evolved socially.” She […]
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Melissa Franklin never had any intention of becoming one of the world’s leading particle physicists. She says went into the field because “she wasn’t smart enough” to do anything else, […]
Andy Dunn was sick of the way that his pants fit. So he and a friend from Stanford Business School started an online pants company called Bonobos. They make reasonably […]
Extracts from Sarah Palin’s ghost writer’s diary detailing her dealings with the former governor have been published in Salon.
Are the seven seconds it takes to complete the average Grand Prix pit stop the longest seconds in sport?
The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has failed to appear in court in The Hague charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Drivers in Dallas have been being illegally ticketed by police officers for not speaking English.
The super rich could evolve into a different species from the poor, according to American futurologist Paul Saffo.
The mantis shrimp’s capability to see a wider color spectrum than a human’s could inspire a new generation of DVD player, scientists have found.
A leader of Bosnia’s dwindling Jewish community has published a book celebrating the many Serbs, Croats and Muslims who helped Bosnian Jews during the holocaust.
A school in China has outraged critics by teaching its pupils to salute every passing car on their way to school.
Now that the US has an African American president what does civil rights activist Booker T. Washington still offer?
Is signing a petition a public act or a secret ballot? And should signatories be subject to exposure?