Quote of the Day by Blaise Pascal: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

French thinker Blaise Pascal observed humanity's aversion to stillness, suggesting our constant busyness stems from a fear of ...
The Spectator Australia

An intellectual farce: Rapture of the Deep, by Robert Irwin, reviewed

If Robert Irwin had not existed, then Dan Brown, or better still Umberto Eco, would surely have had to invent him. In his Memoirs of a Dervish, the roller-blading, pinball-playing polymath reported: ...
Eureka

Terapascal Pressures Reached In Compact Fusion Experiments

Researchers at First Light Fusion have reported a breakthrough that allows terapascal pressures to be generated using compact laboratory equipment, a capability previously restricted to large and ...