To The Barricades

We inhabit an age of walls, the journalist Tim Marshall observes in Divided. Half of all border barriers erected around the world since 1945 have appeared in this century.

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The Spooky Quantum Universe

Brooks is drawn to Cardano the man: the superstitious gambler, the chaser of fame, the astrologer who dared to cast the horoscope of Christ. He’s also drawn to Cardano the thinker. “We are both rational, both seeking to understand the universe, both convinced that nobody has a good grasp of it yet.”

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