Cosmic Embryo #1: My Erdös Number Is 2i

Cosmic Embryo #1: My Erdös Number Is 2i

Icon for Cosmic Embryo: Erupting star V838 Monocerotis  ”On 2010-09-26, at 5:01 AM, Frithjof A.S. Sterrenburg wrote: Dear Richard! Sorry to hear you have been in the claws of the barber-surgeons…
8 year olds published in peer-reviewed journal

8 year olds published in peer-reviewed journal

Some detractors believe science is an 'old boys network' resistant to outsiders - if that were true, a group of young boys and girls wouldn't have their first journal publication.  At age eight…
Calculating The Speed Of Mess

Calculating The Speed Of Mess

Equations relating speed and mass go back to Newton and beyond. But what about relating speed and MESS? Simply, how fast should you expect a clean kids' room to get messy? Friends Jonathan Liu and…
Two Wrongs Making A Right?

Two Wrongs Making A Right?

Here we have two words, one in Arabic and one in Hebrew, which scholars of those languages will have no difficulty in recognizing as descending from the same ancient Semitic source. In Arabic the…