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Maira Kalman is an illustrator, author and designer whose last online column in the Opinion section, “The Principles of Uncertainty,” ran from May of 2006 to April of 2007 and has been published as a book .
May It Please the Court
The global recession has brought us a slew of numbers so large, with so many noughts attached, that it's getting difficult to put them into any kind of perspective. The Bank of England recently announced it was injecting up to £150 billion of new money into the British economy, an unimaginable amount - yet now we hear Barack Obama is proposing to splash out a further $1trn (one trillion dollars) to rescue Wall Street's floundering institutions. And even that's not as much as Britain's national debt has been recalculated at - £1.5trn - following the classification of Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland as public corporations.
The Trillion Dollar Question
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Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. Part of the Khan Academy, we use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art. We are seeking contributors—especially for canonical non-Western material and other survey topics not yet covered.
smARThistory
Is time an illusion?
IT IS the invisible presence that governs your world. Trailing you like an unshakeable shadow, it ticks and tocks incessantly - you can sense it in your heartbeat, in the rising and setting of the sun, and in your daily rush to make meetings, trains and deadlines. It brings order to our lives through the categories of past, present and future.
Read the press release on the new Healthy Eating Plate from September 14, 2011.
Healthy Eating Pyramid - What Should You Eat?
The Annals of Improbable Research (also known as AIR ) is the magazine about research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK.
The Annals of Improbable Research
In the pursuit of scientific truth, even widely held medical beliefs require examination or re-examination. Both physicians and non-physicians sometimes believe things about our bodies that just are not true.
Festive medical myths
Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. This page describes the science behind Foldit and how your playing can help. What is a protein?
The Science Behind FoldIt
A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat
Oscar the Cat awakens from his nap, opening a single eye to survey his kingdom. From atop the desk in the doctor's charting area, the cat peers down the two wings of the nursing home's advanced dementia unit. All quiet on the western and eastern fronts.Eric Schulman is a PhD astronomer and science humorist. Dr.