September 19, 2007
The Heartbeat Heard Round the World
This fall marks the fortieth anniversary of the first human heart transplant. In 1967, four men stood on the cusp of...
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September 19, 2007
This fall marks the fortieth anniversary of the first human heart transplant. In 1967, four men stood on the cusp of...
June 20, 2007
The difference between an invention that succeeds and one that fails can often be traced to the character of the...
March 21, 2007
The world’s greatest chess player lost to a computer ten years ago, in a match widely purported to portend the rise...
January 3, 2007
This winter is the centenary of the first mandatory sterilization laws in the United States, a major milestone in the...
September 20, 2006
Thomas Edison died seventy-five years ago this fall, with “a rack of eight empty test tubes close to his bedside.”...
June 21, 2006
Five years ago this summer, in his first major address to the nation, President Bush announced his policy on the...
March 21, 2006
In this age when the chief objections to the consumption of meat involve concerns about animal cruelty and an...
January 4, 2006
I am not a real astronomer,” Clyde William Tombaugh told the Associated Press on March 14, 1930, the day after...
September 21, 2005
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Albert Einstein’s death, and the centennial of his most astonishing...
June 21, 2005
This summer marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Allied victory in the Second World War. That victory followed the...