May 19, 2019 | Letters, Non-Fiction |
The brilliant physicist and nobel laureate Richard Feynman lost his wife and high-school sweetheart, Arline, when she was 25, and he 27. This is the letter he wrote to her 16 months after her death. It was sealed and never opened until his own death in 1988. October...
Jun 30, 2018 | Geekery, Non-Fiction |
Probability, Time and the Heat of Black HolesOne of the biggest mysteries in modern physics is something that we experience literally every moment of our lives. Physics describes the world by means of formulas that tell us how things vary as a function of time, but it...
Jun 2, 2018 | Geekery, Non-Fiction |
The Most Beautiful of Theories In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You don’t get anywhere by not “wasting” time—something, unfortunately, that the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget. He was in Pavia. He had joined his family,...
