Email Author Margaret Wertheim

2004 Stories by Margaret Wertheim

• The Terrorists Within

  published November 11, 2004

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• When Worlds Collide

  published October 21, 2004

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• The Future Is NOW

  published October 14, 2004

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• Einstein’s Sky

  published September 23, 2004

  Photo courtesy The Lotte Jacobi Archives In 1950, a young boy named Frank Felleman penciled a note to Albert Einstein: “I want to kno... More >>

• Water Torture

  published September 9, 2004

  Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/UNEP In the midsummer mayhem of The Day After Tomorrow, Manhattan is monstered by a wall of... More >>

• Geometric Figuring

  published July 1, 2004

  Photo (top) by Romulo Fialdini Throughout the history of Western art, mathematics has enjoyed a schizophrenic reception: revered at... More >>

• Quantum Mysticism

  published June 10, 2004

  Photos ©Lord of the Wind Films, Inc. In the pantheon of modern myths, few have wrought more damage than the one which asserts tha... More >>

• The Visa Vise

  published May 20, 2004

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• Evolution on the Desktop

  published April 15, 2004

  Ed Burton doesn’t like being compared to the Creator, but it’s hard not to see him in that light. Burton is the architect of an onli... More >>

• Flow, Baby, Flow

  published March 18, 2004

  Photos courtesy of CLUI It is growing. Silently and swiftly beneath our feet, it is coming into being. The neurons of its brain are... More >>

• The Great Race

  published March 4, 2004

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• Dangerous Liaison

  published February 19, 2004

  Illustration by P. Jay Fidler As Bush’s proposed military budget — $401.7 billion, not counting Iraq and Afghanistan — sickeningly reminds ... More >>

• Beyond the Fold

  published January 22, 2004

  Photos by Anthony Scoggins, Mingei International Museum Satoshi Kamiya’s wasp is so technically perfect it almost looks as if it could fly... More >>

• Animating Mars

  published January 8, 2004

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