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The Education of the Blind - Nature
Nature· 23 hours agoTHE jubilee year of the Institution for the Blind at Illzach-Mülhausen has been celebrated by the publication of a “Festschrift,” which contains addresses and papers by Prof. Kunz and others ...
Putin to send up barrage balloons to fend off drone attacks
Daily Telegraph· 7 days agoPolina Albek, the general director of First Airship, told a conference in St Petersburg this week...
Trent Grisham's 2 RBIs carry Yankees past Rays
Reuters· 2 days agoTrent Grisham drove in two runs to lift the New York Yankees to a 2-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Fla. Grisham had an...
The Thermometer Scale of de l'Isle - Nature
Nature· 24 hours agoIN NATURE of September 7, p. 365, Dr. N. V. Nordenmark is credited with the remark ” that the thermometer of Anders Celsius used the scale of de l'Isle, the freezing point being at 100°, the ...
Discovering the real Modest Mussorgsky
The New Statesman· 3 days agoIn late 1877, at the height of his fame, Tchaikovsky was asked in a letter from his patroness, Nadezhda von Meck, what he thought of a group of largely...
‘Basically Inseparable’ From the Start
New York Times· 1 day agoThirty minutes into her first date with Karli Gray, Ellie Smith texted her friends to let them know she was falling in love. During Karli Nicolle Gray...
Scientific Serials - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoThe most numerous scientific papers in these three numbers of the Berlin Monatsbericht are of a chemical nature, consisting of notes by Prof. Hofmann on aromatic phosphines, on the products ...
Chilling warning we may be just years from World War III
Daily Mail· 4 days agoGeneral Sir Patrick Sanders is clearly a man who believes in going out with a bang rather than a...
The New Element of Atomic Number 61: Illinium - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoHarris, Yntema, and Prof. Hopkins, may be congratulated, I find the statement that “there were no theoretical grounds for supposing that eka-neodymium [sic !] might exist until Moseley's rule ...
Conference for Maritime Meteorology - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoA GENERAL wish having of late been expressed that the measures for the prosecution of Maritime Meteorology, proposed at the International Conference at Brussels in 1853, should be reconsidered ...