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The original top quarks supposedly emerged from the roiling sea of primordial radiation less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Then, as the universe expanded and cooled, they all but disappeared. Now they occur naturally only under certain conditions. To conjure them up, scientists have to...
It is these reasons and so much more that make it necessary to plan time for Filene's Basement into your schedule, for it is in The Basement where you are confronted with the best and worst of primordial self.
MW: (pensively): Ah, yes. "Jurassic Park: The Rock Opera." I like the way that sounds. It conjures up images of majestic beasts long extinct reappearing to tread the primordial swamp, but with one important distinction: this time they've got rhythm!
In Earth and Sun and Moon the wages of justice remain the same, but the lyrics are sharper, the music deeper. The band, which has been influenced by the Aboriginal cultures of the Australian outback, has forged a passionate yet never preachy style that expresses its activist instincts in elemental...
If the basic rules of chemistry are any guide, life should not exist. Scientists showed in the 1950s that shooting an electric spark through a soup of chemicals -- thus simulating lightning strikes on the primordial planet earth -- could produce simple organic compounds. But complex, self-reproducing chemicals like dna? They...