Latin and the Emergence of the Space-Time Continuum Last night I attended a layman-oriented talk by Paul Davies on quantum physics and the big bang. He mentioned that, for Einstein, time and space are n
Backdating Chocolate WASHINGTON – Residents of Central America were enjoying chocolate drinks more than 3,000 years ago, a half millennium earlier than previously thought, Continue Reading →
Ancient Quotation Marks? I was startled to read the following in the article linked above (emphasis mine):’Instone-Brewer radically reinterprets the first passage using, of al Continue Reading →