In 1946, Albert Einstein was in sombre mood. Gone was the euphoria of his annus mirabilis forty years earlier, when his paper on the equivalence of mass and energy was first published. Now, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki fresh in his … Read the rest
A short history of C
In the bustling Cairo markets of 3,000 years ago, when the earliest Egyptian pyramids were well into their second millennium, eggs were being sold pretty much as they are today, i.e. in dozens and half-dozens. The reason for this, then … Read the rest