Marie Curie and Her Incredible WWI X-Ray Wagon
Physicist and Nobel prize-winner Marie Curie organized pioneering mobile x-ray units to go to the front during World War I.
Posts tagged: World War I
This Week in Biography: From Mozart to Mitty
From the death of the Salzburg Stallion to the birth of America’s greatest Secretary of Transportation, it all happened on this week in history.
Throwing Einstein on the Bonfire?
Neutrinos have been measured going faster than the speed of light. (Maybe.) Does that mean sweet old Uncle Albert Einstein was wrong about everything?
The (Deadly?) Origins of ‘The Road Not Taken’
Many were the walks when Thomas would guide Frost on the promise of rare wild flowers or birds’ eggs, only to end in self-reproach when the path he chose revealed no such wonders.