December 09, 2003

Scientifically speaking

The New Scientist can be a joy to read. For example, if you don't like new things in life, your life expectancy may be diminished. Also, Homer was right; men really are irrational enough to risk entire kingdoms for beauty. Apparently Helen was more rational than Paris. Damn, imagine the loss to literature had the Trojan War not been fought.

I'd dearly love to see this: the new annex to the National Air and Space Museum has just opened. I haunted the museums in DC one summer in high school, and Air and Space on the Mall was one of my favorites. This new one is huge. A 760,057-square-foot hangar? Whew! It contains a Concorde, a shuttle prototype, and an early 707, among other things, and there's a shuttle bus back and forth to the other Smithsonian museums downtown.

Posted by Linkmeister at December 9, 2003 03:13 PM
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