A New Life: Introduction; The Evil Eye
Introduction: The Wave of Change When I looked at the old photograph of my “happy family,” buried for years in a forgotten album (see illustration),
Introduction: The Wave of Change When I looked at the old photograph of my “happy family,” buried for years in a forgotten album (see illustration),
1. Give up the dream of Paradise on Earth. The sight of the rubble of Hiroshima killed the comforting narrative that the progress of science
As you all know, the theme of this year’s Colloquium is Student as Journeyman: Education, Formation, and Transformation. Mr. Powers asked me to talk on
No Historical Memory Yesterday, I watched the superb movie Oppenheimer, written and directed by Christopher Nolan. The movie is historically accurate, with one caveat. Nolan
The Starting Point Most of us are children of unhappy marriages, so we knew from suffering in early life, say by the age of seven
A friend of mine, a fellow theoretical physicist, after seeing Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer, asked for my take on Los Alamos National Laboratory, which in