HUNGARIANS FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/25/hungarians-rally-against-government-push-for-sweeping-anti-terror-powers#img-1 Viktor Orban’s government is seeking broad powers to deal with ‘terror threat situations’ in Hungary. Photograph: Jure Makovec/AFP/Getty Images Hundreds of people have rallied in Budapest against government plans to bring in anti-terror measures including restrictions on the internet and curfews. “The plan would put an end to democracy once and for all,” protest … Continue reading HUNGARIANS FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

OUR TOWN, Thornton Wilder

http://writersalmanac.org/ Friday, Jan. 22, 2016 It was on this day in 1938 that Thornton Wilder's (books by this author) play Our Town was premiered at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. Our Town is about the fictional town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. In the first act, Emily Webb and George Gibbs are children together; in the second act, they … Continue reading OUR TOWN, Thornton Wilder

Not All Gravitational Waves Are Created Equal

Not All Gravitational Waves Are Created Equal The LIGO experiment hunts for gravitational waves that are different from those sought by BICEP2. Although both types are elusive, they differ in age and strength—and come from very different places By Clara Moskowitz on January 14, 2016 The LIGO Hanford Observatory in Washington State. LIGO In physics circles a … Continue reading Not All Gravitational Waves Are Created Equal

TRUMP AND AUTHORITARIANISM

  THE AUTHOR, Matthew MacWilliams is founder of MacWilliams Sanders, a political communications firms, and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he is writing his dissertation about authoritarianism. Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-2016-authoritarian-213533#ixzz3xoHoJKYj If I asked you what most defines Donald Trump supporters, what would you say? They’re white? They’re poor? … Continue reading TRUMP AND AUTHORITARIANISM

Pentaquark Particle Spotted

Forsaken Pentaquark Particle Spotted at CERN Exotic subatomic particle confirmed at Large Hadron Collider after earlier false sightings By Matthew Chalmers, Nature magazine on July 14, 2015 CERN / LHCb Collaboration An exotic particle made up of five quarks has been discovered a decade after experiments seemed to rule out its existence. The short-lived ‘pentaquark’ was spotted by … Continue reading Pentaquark Particle Spotted