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...this result in one of the most evil men in history? I still don’t know, because Mailer’s answer is that it didn’t—it didn’t even matter.As the narrator explains, there are three kingdoms in the cosmos: the divine, the satanic, and the human. And while the third one presumably has some sort of influence, it seems to be rather insignificant, especially when Satan decides to make you evil nine months before your birth. “Even as the Angel Gabriel served Jehovah on a momentous...
...Hubble camera used to capture images of the deepest cosmos is likely lost after a malfunction last week. But a new camera set to be installed during an '08 spacewalk should restore some capabilities...
Tymoczko's answer, which led last summer to the first paper on music theory ever published in the journal Science, is that the cosmos of chords consists of weird, multidimensional spaces, known as orbifolds, that turn back on themselves with a twist, like the Mbius strips math teachers love to trot out to prove to students that a two-dimensional figure can have only one side. Indeed, the simplest chords, which consist of just two notes, live on an actual Mbius strip. Three-note chords reside in spaces that look like prisms--except that opposing faces connect...
...were first venturing into outer space, TIME explored those efforts and traveled with astronauts, through launches from Sputnik to Apollo and far beyond. Humanity is on a similar quest now, inward rather than outward, and just as readers decades ago came to count on us for news from the cosmos, so can today's readers look to us for dispatches from the brain. We will be putting together a team of reporters, writers, and scientists--our own brain trust--to regularly explore this great inner horizon...
Enfolding physics into the formative tale, Spitz writes, “Thanks to a confluence of geography and the cosmos, Radio Luxembourg...had a signal that by some miracle could sprint its semidirect way to the United Kingdom.” Three of the four future Beatles simultaneously listened by night to that station’s brand of American rhythm-and-blues, stricken from conservative British-owned radio stations...