Science & Medicine
Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science -- From the Babylonians to the Mayans, Dick Teresi, Simon and Schuster: 454 pp., $27
Oct. 20, 2002
World & Nation
The ancient library of Alexandria is being revived, 2,185 years after the original was founded to collect “all the books in the world,” and 1,599 years after the last remnant of the first institution was destroyed.
Jan. 7, 1990
Books
For a brief moment, nature gift books foundered.
Nov. 29, 1987
A Texas astronomer spends 30 years finding distances to stars called Cepheids, give or take a few hundred light-years.
Nov. 26, 2007
Big Bang The Origin of the Universe Simon Singh HarperCollins/Fourth Estate: 532 pp., $27.95
March 6, 2005
Varsity Times Insider
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March 10, 2011
A small tsunami struck the Seferihisar district south of Izmir, the city in western Turkey that was the worst affected by the quake.
Oct. 30, 2020
Music
Chris Stapleton’s album “Traveller” and Samo Sound Boy’s “Begging Please” draw the admiration of pop music critic Randall Roberts.
May 2, 2015
A Palestinian woman and her children were granted asylum after reaching Greece in a dinghy. But the 28 others they were with didn’t even get to apply.
June 18, 2021