Your sweetheart calls you by another’s name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy – that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation...
Maybe the search for life shouldn’t restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and...
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we’re building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the...
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. — Edsger Dijkstra Tags: #Success, #Luxury, #Elegance, #EdsgerDijkstra, #Dutch, #ScientistMini who’s who: Edsger Dijkstra : Dutch Scientist Born: May 11, 1930 Died:...
Romantic love is an addiction. — Helen Fisher Tags: #Love, #Addiction, #HelenFisher, #American, #ScientistMini who’s who: Helen Fisher : American Scientist Born:...