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Before her husband was taken by a crocodile, amateur naturalist Glenda Jefferies very likely filmed his killer. From the banks of the Normanby River, on Australia's remote Cape York Peninsula, she and husband Barry frequently videotaped the large saltwater crocodiles that prowl the waterways of Lakefield National Park. Last...
...more distant star passing behind it. In his original paper, Einstein doubted that such a thing would ever be seen- but he didn?t count on modern technology. Since 1997, a Polish-led team of astronomers has been using that technology in a project called OGLE, for Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (hence the planet?s name) to search for just such magnifications. They?ve seen hundreds, but one that happened last July was followed a short while later by a smaller flicker- evidence that the magnifying star had a planet trailing behind (the planet?s flicker was actually detected...
It's through the lens of these memories that I watched the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) matter unfold in the Alito confirmation hearings. Judge Alito was an undergraduate at Princeton at the very moment the school went co-ed. It seems that, like many men of his vintage, he...
In a series called Theaters, Sugimoto uses movies and movie houses to probe the nature of light and time. Traveling to some of America's finest Beaux Arts and Art Deco theaters, Sugimoto shoots their interiors by keeping his camera lens open during an entire film screening. Burning a complete...
May says that this program provides a crucial lens that is otherwise missing from theological instruction.