“In a lily-white sport…Althea Gibson, a Black woman, was a whirlwind of energy and determination, shattering the color barrier at one marquee event after the next.” —Sasha Abramsky
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Ahead of the Game | Sasha Abramsky
Althea Gibson was a tall, strong, and exceptionally hard-hitting tennis player. Her serve was a rocket, her volleys forceful, aimed not at continui...
“Everyday language can actually convey cutting-edge physics concepts very well, if only we can let go of the everyday connotations that some terms carry with them.” —an interview with Sean M. Carroll
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Far Out | Sean M. Carroll, Willa Glickman
As scientists and researchers make sense of some of the major discoveries from the turn of the twenty-first century, “the present moment in the s...
A new exhibition pays “frank attention to the financial incentives that motivated the operators of ocean liners, railroads, and airlines to...use oysters, beef Wellington, kale salad, and martinis to edge out the competition.” —Lora Kelley
The New York Review of Books
‘A Moment of Pleasant Indecision’ | Lora Kelley
In the summer of 1957 a young woman named Shirley Kubik got a job attending to passengers on Trans World Airlines. After the company determined tha...
In 1978, an English librarian discovered “two strips of paper” which “proved to be fragments of an old letter. There was no clue as to who had written it,” Charles Nicholl writes, save for the name of its recipient: “Good Mrs. Shakspaire.”
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Who Is Mrs. Shakspaire? What Is She? | Charles Nicholl
On a summer’s day in 1978, Frederick Charles Morgan was at work as usual in the ancient library of Hereford Cathedral. He was a hundred years old...