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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...play is an admirable attempt to integrate science and literature, but it quickly descends into an endless pun about uncertainty—as in Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle—which the play itself never quite cognizes. The work suffers from an overabundance of mere observations of the ways human behavior can correspond with anthropomorphic interpretations of QM. This method is inherently problematic; the physics can really only tell us the outcomes of experiments concerning the quantum world. At best it allows room to imagine what subatomic particles do, but that has nothing to do with what humans...

Author: By Adam L. Palay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Keats & Quanta: The Cat Is Dead | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...grammatical rule governing phrasal adjectives compounds the confusion (no pun intended); multi-word descriptors (such as “health care”) must be hyphenated when they appear before a noun (as in “health-care reform?...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: The Battle Over “Healthcare” | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

Sick! Yeah. We know. That was a terrible pun. Let the rush begin...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna | Title: We're Saved! But Only Sort Of... | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

Sick! Yeah. We know. That was a terrible pun. Let the rush begin...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna | Title: We're Saved! But Only Sort Of... | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...react because they have a safe base. They make a lot of money, so why challenge that? The other aspect is that whiskey, as a whole, is seen as a very traditional drink. So if you do something innovative you're going against the grain, if you pardon the pun. (See reviews of 50 American wines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whiskey: A Travelogue | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

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