The Discovery of Radioactivity – That Time the Sun Didn’t Shine In Paris
- Space & Physics, Today in History
- March 1, 2017
On December 3, 1993, Lewis Thomas passed away at the New York Hospital in Manhattan. Thomas strived to tell the stories and mysteries of biology to a broad audience. It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that
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READ MOREMay 3, 1993: The United Nations members sign the Declaration of Windhoek, in Namibia. The document encourages an independent and pluralistic press in African countries and channels funds to make this happen. In addition, the UN declares censorship a major violation of human rights and hurries leaders to release jailed journalists. Twenty-five years later, the
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