Monthly Archives: October 2024

The woman known to the world as Madame Curie entered the world on November 7, 1867, as Marya Salomea Sklodowska. The youngest of five children, she … The Elements of Marie Curie | Dava Sobel

Found this in my book cupboard with no idea how it got there. A fat 500+ page 2019 paperback from apparently a proper British publisher, but … Life, Love, Death in Maria Popova’s Book “Figuring”

What is the size of a single molecule of oil? What may initially seem like a trick question – answerable only through the use of complicated, high-… Estimating the Size of a Single Molecule of Oil Using Water

Five hundred thousand miles an hour we all turn arounda black maw at galactic central that swallows worldslunches on stellar archipelagoes. Sixty six… Chaos and the Void