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  He took the long diagonal that went past Watts's monument to, or of, Physical Energy: the huge-thighed horseman reining back and gazin...

  There were very few women, a lot of racket, empty beer bottles all around and cold sweaty cans in the hands of almost everybody.   I real...

  (that photon) that doesn´t know what light is and that itself is light   So, photons are involved in the wave-particle duality and in...

 Then he understood that here, so far from the city proper, the smoke was dispersed, and the stars were visible. He nearly lost his balance,...

Serendipity. From Serendip, a former name of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. A word coined by Horace Walpole, who had invented it based on a folkta...

  Pam had already established her own interest in science and she saw society as one large organism working with its million, billion cells ...

  It was one day as I listened to baseball that it occurred to me how the moon actually moves, in a spiral, because while it orbits the eart...

  I sat for a very long time and the night got cooler, degree by degree, ticking them off like a clock.   The only way that degrees can drop...

  A nd this was my favorite rocking chair, said Woolly to no one. He was standing on the porch, a little while after Duchess had...

  Plants turned energy-poor materials into energy-rich. Animals did the reverse. We just weren’t autotrophic. Day after day, in every little...

  The wood was stacked, chopped, weighed and carried down to the water again, probably weighed again. Each cremation required a ton of wood....

 “ The list of prime numbers begins with two, three, and five, as you say. But prime numbers grow increasingly rare the larger they become. ...

 On the terrace of my bedroom, with lights off, in midnight, watching the firmament. Startling spectacle. In the clear sky, millions of sta...

  They looked and made quick calculations: a 7 percent chance of con artistry, 4 percent chance of prostitution, 50 percent chance of mental...

  T hey were terribly headstrong. Half of them would even drop dead rather than submit to training: they stand there in the yard—they’re bew...

 “All kinds of vitamin deficiency, B12, folic acid, iron, et cetera, thrombocytosis, that’s excess platelets, thrombocytopenia, that’s low p...

  His head immobilized with some straps, the test Subject had viewed the Entertainment twice at gratis, without the application ...

 Lucio nodded, seeming to appreciate the macabre balance sheet, and uncapped the beer bottles, levering them against a branch. ‘When you pi...

  What then happened was that new interpreters emerged, to communicate between the soil and the trees. Little mushrooms appeared at the base...

  What did she know about precautions? Vi awoke over the next month with vomit already in her mouth, and felt lethargic and heavy and sick. ...

  Of the roads. Of the cars, of Mazda and Ford, of Opel, of any brand at all, of manuals and automatics, of petrol-powered cars and cars tha...

  As I shut it, Saint Paul’s, and all the many church-clocks in the City - some leading, some accompanying, some following - struck that hou...

  The effects of cyanide are so swift that there is but one historical account of its flavour, left behind in the early twenty-first century...

 And with a simultaneity that can only be explained using principles of quantum mechanics, specifically, the properties of so-called entangl...

  Afterward, his parents had joint custody, so Abbott moved between their residences every two weeks. These transfers occurred on Sundays, i...

  But they never returned again. Instead, after a year, the twins scattered, their lives splitting as evenly as their shared egg If this blo...

  The tree on which you are set is called here rain tree . They give it this name because it collects the dew on its flowers and when it daw...

  He told us tha if you put a toad in a boling water pan, the toad Will jump quickly out of the pan for salving itself. But if you put the t...

  Andrew was given the lesson plan in biology. It was simple enough and he used the occasion of the frog dissection, and a reprise of Galvan...

  I became intrigued about how he had managed to get in. He told me. He had seen that the door could be opened with the keyboard system that...