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Up Close and Personal: The Stigma of Mental Illness
Nov 15, 2010 — A word to the wise: If you see Glenn Close in the security line at the airport, don’t approach her and say in a small, almost mousy voice: “Excuse me, are you who I think you are?” It’s not that she doesn’t like to meet fans of the many movies in which she’s appeared — The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction and 101 Dalmations among others. Something tells me she’s more than gracious about such things. No, the problem is, the question sends her in...
Big. Daguerreotype Big.
Nov 8, 2010 — Who was the first person ever to be photographed? A president? A general on the eve of battle? An assistant to a tinkerer somewhere, sort of the Mr. Watson of the camera obscura set? We don’t know who he was, actually. We know only that he...
Is Jackass 3D Messing With Your Head?
Oct 25, 2010 — Unless you’ve been hiding under a proverbial rock you’ve heard that 3-D – and the much-vaunted “immersive experience” it provides – represents the future of the movie-going enterprise. Avatar signaled the coming...
Leave a Light On
Oct 18, 2010 — Home has been on my mind lately. Not an actual, geographically defined place. Not really. I mean, rather, the idea of home: Where is it that we feel at ease, accepted and even embraced? And how do we hang on to this as life, in keeping with its...
On the Road with Junior: A tale of optics and driverless cars
Oct 15, 2010 — Once accessible only to the likes of David Hasselhoff and Batman, autonomous driving is now finding its way into a range of consumer vehicles. Here, in following a car named Junior and its various progeny, we trace the recent history of driverless...
The French Connection: Optics in France and the US
Oct 8, 2010 — It wasn’t so long ago, at the centuries-old Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte in the Pessac-Léognan appellation south of Bordeaux, that workers had to stand at long sorting tables manually removing pieces of leaves, raisins and other...
Charles Townes on the Virtue of Tenacity
GLEN ARM, Md., Oct. 5, 2010 — It isn’t every day, is it? It isn’t every day you get to listen to Dr. Charles Townes — inventor of the maser, precursor to the laser, without whom the world would likely look very different today — as he recounts his journey...
Blinded by the Light
Oct 4, 2010 — I like to mess with my siblings’ cats sometimes when I get my hands on a laser pointer, You know: make them tumble over themselves trying to catch the tiny red spot dancing across the carpet, occasionally convince them to run headlong into the...
Look, Ma! No hands!
Oct 1, 2010 — I watch in amazement as the woman in the television commercial pushes a button on her dashboard and sits back, gleeful, while her car parks all by itself. And not a simple diagonal parking job, mind you, but the hair-raising parallel kind. The kind...
How Katy Perry’s Cleavage Could Save Optics
Sep 27, 2010 — How can I not write about the flap over Katy Perry on "Sesame Street"? That story has everything: a scantily clad pop star; charges of exposing children to untoward, even libidinous displays; egregiously bad acting; woolly, pint-size sock puppets....
Coffee, College and Commodity
Sep 21, 2010 — On a balmy afternoon way back in 1992, a friend and I spotted a new storefront as we were strolling down the main avenue in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. In the window was a sign announcing the opening of a shop called Uncommon Ground (I would eventually...
For-profit Education Takes a Hit, and Then Another
Sep 13, 2010 — It’s been a tough couple of months for the for-profit education industry. First, a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a hearing looking into allegations of deception and fraud. Lawmakers railed against for-profit...
Putting the “Eye” in CSI
Sep 1, 2010 — Forensic investigation hasn’t yet achieved the sci-fi type of technological sophistication seen on CSI and other television crime shows, but it’s getting there. Having seen what is possible with DNA, and often feeling considerable...
Telecom Boom in India? Fiber to the home provides welcome boost
Sep 1, 2010 — The telecom sector in India has seen tremendous growth in the past decade, particularly following a series of government efforts in the 1990s. These began in earnest with the announcement of the first National Telecom Policy in 1994 and continued...
We = Rock (You)
Aug 30, 2010 — I’ve listened to “Radio Ga Ga” maybe a hundred times in the past couple of weeks. Sure, most music fans sniff at this 1984 Queen song, dismissing it as an excruciating low point in the band’s otherwise (mostly) distinguished...
The Quantum Leap: Researchers Explore the Clinical Potential of Quantum Dots
Aug 23, 2010 — Researchers have made tremendous progress in recent years in developing optical imaging for the study and management of disease. By taking advantage of the near-infrared window — the wavelength range where scattering and absorption of light...
Retractions and Besmirched Reputations
Aug 17, 2010 — Saturday morning, a shade before 10am. I’m sipping coffee from a tall mug with stylized lions and tigers and what appear to be cheetahs gracing the outside and wondering what in creation I’m going to write about this week. Feeling a bit...
The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be
Aug 9, 2010 — Images of tomorrow, of course, are all about the attitudes of today. Take a look at any comic, TV show or movie set in the future and you’ll see what its creators thought about the prospects of the human race. Will we manage to create a...
Particle Man, Particle Man
Aug 2, 2010 — Don’t tell anyone I said this, but I’ve been learning quite a bit from They Might Be Giants’ latest children’s album, Here Comes Science. I’m vacationing on the north coast of Ohio this week and every time I get...
FaceTime
Aug 1, 2010 — Novel technology and powerful new algorithms have facilitated a range of advances in face recognition systems, leading to improved accuracy in traditional applications – mostly in the areas of surveillance and security – and suggesting a...
Brought to You by the Letter ‘G’
Jul 26, 2010 — We weren’t five minutes into the meeting and I’d already said something I knew I would regret. After asking the other editorial folk what was new and learning that little had transpired since I’d last talked to them, I’d...
“…Cells Shaped Like a Cross”
Jul 20, 2010 — Some months ago I was sitting in a diner in Tucumcari, N.M., a small, shabby eatery on the western edge of town. Like many of the businesses on this lonely stretch of highway – what was once known as the Mother Road, the old Route 66 –...
Rethinking The Big Bang Theory
Jul 12, 2010 — The Big Bang Theory has lately inspired a degree of handwringing in the research community. Not the theory itself; I think scientists are generally OK with that. Rather the TV show named after it, the CBS sitcom about a pair of geniuses – an...
Fruit Flies and the Age of Anti-Intellectualism
Jun 29, 2010 — Scientific research has lately faced an intractable challenge to its legitimacy. It’s not a new threat. The research community has wrestled with it in the past. And it will almost certainly encounter it again. In his 1964 Pulitzer...
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Jun 14, 2010 — On May 24, President Obama delivered the commencement address at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. In his remarks, he noted that “the burdens of this century cannot fall on our soldiers alone” and emphasized the part...
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