Word: discoverer
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Perhaps one day the starry-eyed young man with his head immersed in a book, oblivious to the genocide in Sudan, will turn out to be the next Proust, who wrote what might be the twentieth century’s greatest novel about pastries. Or perhaps that smelly science nerd...
A decent thumbnail sketch of the past decade, sure--but also, as I was repeatedly flabbergasted to discover while researching my new novel, which takes place from 1848 to 1850, a perfectly accurate reckoning of the late 1840s as well. And while it's an excellent parlor game to point...
The professor, who helped discover the “top quark”—the last quark to be uncovered—was modest about her accomplishments.
It turns out that despite its 1.7 million lines of computer code on board, there was nothing telling the jets what to do when they crossed the International Date Line. That sent their avionics into a electronic tailspin. GPS receivers on the planes use signals from orbiting satellites to determine...
One of Granta magazine’s “Best Young Novelists,” Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04, is venturing to Columbia’s medical school next year. But he has no plans to stop writing. “My next book is non...