Friday, February 10, 2012 at 08:17PM 
Ezra T. Newman, Emeritus professor of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh and resident Einstein expert for Simply Charly, won the prestigious Einstein Prize which is awarded biennially. For full story, click here.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 03:24PM 
Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago today in the town of Portsmouth, England. According to Claire Tomalin's 2011 biography "Charles Dickens: A Life," his childhood home was happy and comfortable, but his father tended to live beyond his means, and the family was uprooted more than once. On the worst of these occasions, 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a boot-black factory. He didn't like it. But it became material -- there was a boy there named Fagin, a name that will ring familiar to readers of "Oliver Twist." More...
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 06:08PM 
IN March 2009, an eternity ago in Silicon Valley, a small team of engineers here was in a big hurry to rethink the future of books. Not the paper-and-ink books that have been around since the days of Gutenberg, the ones that the doomsayers proclaim — with glee or dread — will go the way of vinyl records. More...
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 06:01PM 
Approaching Gertrude Stein’s writing critically is tricky. Because she strove to reshape literary conventions — syntax, language usage, narrative order and the sense of making sense — any comment on her choices may already be rebuffed in her poetics and practice. Stein is a trickster. This may be why, as I read “Ida” and “Stanzas in Meditation,” both reissued in corrected, authoritative editions from Yale University Press, I remembered a Jonathan Richman lyric I’ll paraphrase as “Pablo Picasso never got called a jackass.” More...
Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 10:13PM 
Whatever art form you're interested in—television, film, theater, literature, cinema, radio—you can't miss Charles Dickens these days. The question is, why? More...
