Tag: Sunday Special
ON ARTIFICIAL SKIN
If you hold this page between your fingers, a layer of cells about that thick, called the epidermis, is all that stands...
THE CHEMISTRY OF GREENHOUSE EFFECT
Our earth would be a very cold place, with an average temperature of about 0 degree F instead of the more livable...
Puzzles That Fox You
A puzzle is anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of. It is a problem or question that you have...
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EULER
Leonhard Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland, on April 15, 1707, to Margarete Brucker and her husband, Paul Euler. A Calvinist pastor...
A DREADFUL DISEASE AND A MIRACLE HORMONE
Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin (the hormone it produces) or when...
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL – PHYSICIST NONPAREIL
James Clerk Maxwell, the man who discovered Electromagnetism one of the four fundamental forces of the Universe (the other three being Gravity,...
The King of Antibiotics
Millions of lives have been saved by Penicillin, the first efficient antibiotic, since its introduction during World War II. Penicillin was not...
THE FATHER OF QUANTUM THEORY
Twentieth century physics can be divided into two parts- Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Relativity is the result of the work of one...
The pacifist who made the Atomic Bomb
Robert J Oppenheimer was born in 1904 in New York City to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Germany to America in...
Sean Connery – the gold standard against which all other Bonds...
Ours is an age when we are inundated by the results of "opinion polls" in every sphere of human activity.