Physics Lecture News Today

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?” -Carl Sagan

Translation: here, we can get patchy i internet and attend online lessons. . around ten to 20 students come here every day, even if its raining. we just sit here with an umbrella and a notebook and a phone so we can attend the classes. limber is one of 154 villages in the region which have no means of communication. as the pandemic hit and all schools closed, these young people found themselves struggling for an education. translation: every day, | we walk about three km just to access the inter...

2 hours ago I entered Stanford University in the fall of 1966, majoring in Physics and looking forward to a career in the emerging computer industry. I had read how the Stanford Provost, Frederick Emmons Terman, Jr., had pioneered the concept of a “Community of Technical Scholars,” combining campus brainpower with local industry to create what later became known as Silicon Valley.  Unfortunately, the narrative failed to mention a third partner, the U.S. Department of Defense. Stanford’s ...