In the Fall of 1974 I was invited by Steve Reich to join him in Berlin where he was a guest artist of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) (the German Academic Exchange Service). Though ...

You say potato ....and I say spud. A look at the different schools of thought on language usage.

Bell Laboratories, one of the world’s largest industrial laboratories and now part of Lucent Technologies, was originally the research and development arm of the giant telephone company American ...

In 1899 Max Planck became a professor at the University of Berlin, after nine years at the University of Munich and Kiel University, in Germany. In his research there, he turned to a thermodynamic ...

To play the Waterloo Interactive Battle Simulator, you must first choose whether to play as Napoleon (French side) or as Wellington (Allied side). The computer will play as your opponent. The game is ...

William Shockley was born in London to American parents who were in England for several years on business. His father was a mining engineer and his mother a federal deputy surveyor of mineral lands.

"When God wants to speak with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents." (Martin Luther) Martin Luther was named after St Martin by his parents Hans and Margarette Luther, a pair of ...

The universe tells us its story mainly through light and other wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. We learn about the planets, stars, and galaxies by their light—visible light, and also ...

Jim Gates' father had a 24-year career in the military, so the family moved often when Gates was young. His mother died when he was 11. Perhaps these events encouraged his interest in comic books, ...

There are different types of home care service providers. Each provider offers a different level and/or kinds of care, may vary in price, and may require more or less of your caregiving time.

Most long-term care expenses are not covered by Medicare or other health care insurance plans, and the costs can be staggering when elders require round-the-clock care. Long-term care insurance, ...

Timothy Ferris was interviewed at Rocky Hill Observatory in 2007 about astronomy and the making of Seeing in the Dark by Roy Eisenhardt, a polymath who among other attainments was president of the ...