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Science News
April 27, 2002 |
TimeLine: April 23, 1932 Welding offers camera striking field of beauty... Most effective insect killer yields formula to chemists... Drug made from Indian plant produces movielike visions...   |
Salon.com
April 24, 2002
Timothy Davis |
Who was Hannah Crafts? When Henry Louis Gates Jr. discovered a handwritten manuscript purported to be the first novel by a fugitive African-American woman slave, it was time to call in the literary detectives... |
Salon.com
April 22, 2002
Jeff Galipeaux |
Brady's portrait of Grant On a June afternoon in 1864, Mathew Brady invented candid portrait photography -- and changed our vision of American masculinity... |
Science News
April 20, 2002 |
TimeLine: April 16, 1932 New Indian tomb yields striking artifact... Sugar plays leading part in pneumonia germ's activity... Lonely magnetic poles may change ideas of universe... |
Science News
April 13, 2002 |
TimeLine: April 9, 1932 issue Spiders' eggs form pattern like mosaic of pebbles... Super-sensitivity of new research tool is confirmed... Light velocity is key to other numerical constants... European scientists study neutron, latest atomic part... |
Wired
April 2002
Evan I. Schwartz |
Televisionary In a stroke of genius, Philo T. Farnsworth changed the way we see the world. Then corporate America pushed him out of the picture... |
Science News
April 6, 2002 |
TimeLine: April 2, 1932 Teletypewriters can now be used in home... Einstein and de Sitter return to Euclidean idea of cosmos... Cannot know universe's shape without more observations... Entire universe still young, little older than earth itself... New long-time clock is rotation of Milky Way... etc. |
Reason
April 2002
Chris Bray |
Torturing History A military historian abuses the past in Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power, by Victor Davis Hanson... |
Reason
April 2002
Mark Goldblatt |
America's Black History Given the history of slavery, is black patriotism possible? Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism, by Roger Wilkins, tries to answer that question... |
Science News
March 30, 2002 |
TimeLine: March 26, 1932 Easter lily unfolds tale to x-ray's piercing eye... Giant blast felt as quake by distant seismographs... "Modern" bath towels used in egypt 4,000 years ago... |
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