Here’s an amusing little video to encourage all American citizens to register to vote by showing five things that are harder to do, from playing the classic kids’ game “Operation” to naming from memory the major characters on Game of … Continue reading
In one of Hitchcock’s best films, Jimmy Stewart is a globe-trotting photojournalist temporarily confined to his Greenwich Village apartment by a broken leg. Grace Kelly is his devoted girlfriend, rich, classy, and heavily involved in the fashion industry. She wants … Continue reading
This is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best films, based on a popular stage play by Frederick Knot, who also wrote the script for the film. Like its even better immediate successor, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder is set almost … Continue reading
Not many years ago most Republican leaders accepted the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming, as this video reminds us: Link: http://youtu.be/ckxLgsUQmHg It’s remarkable that the GOP has shifted so far so fast under pressure from the extremists who tend … Continue reading
(Updated; see below.) I’m surprised that Minute Physics would get this wrong: Link: http://youtu.be/S9dqJRyk0YM It’s true that there’s no wavelength of light that’s pink and that the color magenta is basically white light with the middle wavelengths omitted. But despite … Continue reading
Following is the text of an open letter released last Wednesday and signed by 68 American winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine: An Open Letter to the American People America’s economic future, the quality … Continue reading
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has lately attacked Barack Obama for advocating higher education, John F Kennedy for favoring separation of church and state, and doctors in U.S. and the Netherlands for supposedly being a bunch of rabid serial killers. … Continue reading