Link Magnets?

Hundreds of millions of people now know that today (August 14) is Hans Christian Ørsted’s birthday. Today many of them even know, that without his 1820 discovery that electric currents induce magnetism, long-distance communication in 2009 might be conducted via megaphone and carrier pigeon. Yesterday, most of those hundreds of millions had never heard of Hans Christian Ørsted. So what happened?…

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Minding Your Ps and Rs

When did you learn your ABCs? Easy,  right? Just like love…  Michael Jackson thought he knew that at 12. Had he forgotten by the time he turned 50? The thing about love is, it’s tricky. Most of us, when we talk about love, have no idea what we mean, or even what we want to mean. Just last Sunday, our…

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