Last week I was invited to give a talk in New York, as part of a series called ¡°Geeking Out,¡± intended for a lay audience interested in science.
Somewhat to my surprise, the talk took place in an art gallery in
Brooklyn. Talks about science in an art gallery? Were we not told by popular psychologists that the artistic types rely more on the right side of the brain, while the mathematical geeks rely more on the left side?




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British archaeologists are seeking to authenticate what could be a landmark discovery in the documentation of early Christianity: a trove of 70 lead codices that appear to date from the 1st century CE, which may include key clues to the last days of Jesus' life. As 















I have always argued that no person is truly irreplaceable. I still believe that to be the case. However, my colleague and friend Rodger Doxsey came probably as close as anyone ever could to being irreplaceable. I know of no one who had a deeper and more thorough understanding of the workings of the Hubble Space Telescope than Rodger. Rodger passed away on October 13, 2009, at the age of 62.


