Month: January 2021

From The New Republic of March 9, 1932, we can read the following, rather surprising note: “A young woman has been appearing at the Warner Brothers’ Theatre, in Hollywood, California, about whom there is an unusual fact. She is a professional prophet; her name is Eugenie

When I first arrived in Argonne, more than a quarter of century ago, I was a visiting professor, and obviously (noblesse oblige…) I could not sit in the communal students’ rooms. Short of individual offices, the only solution was to

Leonardo da Vinci was used to pull brilliant ideas out of nowhere, with a depth of thinking that is still astounding today. Even if some of his scientific and artistic intuitions were just wrong, so many others came so close