It was late 1956, and millions of Americans sat transfixed before their televisions, watching two men locked in soundproof booths pull facts, names, and dates out of their memories to answer questions worth thousands of dollars. One competitor was Charles Van Doren, a handsome 32- year-old English instructor at Columbia University. The other was unglamorous, […] Read more

The basic question is this: given human nature, are any of us really capable of change? The mistakes other people make are usually patently obvious. Our own are tougher to recognize. In most cases, our path through life reflects a fundamental truth about who we are now and who we’ve been since birth. We’re optimists […] Read more

It was a face to remember: a woman in a pink hat crossing the finish line of a Race for the Cure event. The pink hat meant she was a survivor. She’d won her own personal race against breast cancer. And now she ran with thousands of others to let the world know how important […] Read more

She had a face to remember: a woman in a pink hat crossing the finish line at a Race for the Cure event. The pink hat means she is a survivor. She’d won her race against breast cancer and now runs with thousands of others to let the world know how important it is to […] Read more

Let’s say you are at a race track and you want to put money on a horse. Which horse are you going to bet on? A run of the mill Kentucky Trotter or a State of the Art Robot horse that flies at the speed of sound and shoots laser beams out of its eyes? […] Read more

Radiation is a form of energy, released in waves called “electromagnetic waves.” The different types of electromagnetic energy fall into categories according to the size of their wavelengths. Radiation includes gamma rays, x-rays, ultraviolet rays, microwaves, visible light, infrared light, radio waves, television broadcast waves, and radar waves. Radiation at the lower end, gamma rays […] Read more

Radiation comes from both natural and artificial sources. Natural sources include radioactive rock and soil formations, and cosmic radiation from outer space. Artificial sources include nuclear power plants, nuclear weapons, tobacco smoke, radioisotopes, and rays used in medical diagnosis and treatment. Humans are constantly exposed to background radiation which emanates from several of these sources. […] Read more

For many children in New York, Christmas meant the yearly extravaganza at Radio City Music Hall. For some kids in other areas, the holiday season meant Santa Claus and decorated fir trees. But in New York, it was Radio City … the huge resplendent hall, the Rockettes, and the reenactment of the Living Nativity scene, […] Read more

For many children in New York, Christmas meant the yearly extravaganza at Radio City Music Hall. For some kids in other areas, the holiday season meant Santa Claus and decorated fir trees. But in New York, it was Radio City … the huge resplendent hall, the Rockettes, and the reenactment of the Living Nativity scene, […] Read more