ave you seen this man?”, the Italian newspaper Domenica del Corriere asked its readers on July 17, 1938. The photograph of the missing young professor Ettore Majorana — black hair, droopy eyes, pale, ordinary-looking face — suggested a dull, colorless substitute...
ren’t you glad you don’t have to go outside, chop down trees, hack them into chunks, haul them into the house (bringing in mice, spiders, and all kinds of crawling insects) and shove them into a woodstove to stay warm? Do you ever think about what it would be like to...