Several years ago, I was invited by a colleague of mine to join in an effort to teach a brief summer course entitled “The Secret City”. The few-day course, taught at a satellite university campus in New Mexico, explored the story of the Manhattan Project and its aftermath. It was […]
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Join me for a series of posts that explores the development of the material for my public lecture on Thursday, March 14, entitled “Catch a Dying Star: Astronomy Deep Underground”. Today, I explore the origin of the title and the material that is the rough foundation of the lecture.
So the story goes, at least as Carl Zimmer recounts it, during a debate between Thomas Huxley (a staunch defender of Charles Darwin’s then new Theory of Evolution by means of Natural Selection) and Bishop of Oxford Samuel Wilberforce (a staunch opponent of the theory) in the Natural History Museum […]