Indian Pipe

by | Sep 3, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me

Each year I go with a collection of friends, the boarders and the boss to the Adirondacks for a camping and canoeing trip. We’ve been going for years and it has become one of the highlights of the year. This year was the first that the whole Rounds inequitable...
When (Subatomic) Worlds Collide

When (Subatomic) Worlds Collide

by | Sep 3, 2014 | Stage

In September 1941, as Nazi Germany consolidated its hold on most of Europe, two of the century’s indispensable physicists met in Copenhagen, Denmark. Former colleagues, both of them key figures in the development of quantum theory, Niels Bohr and Werner...
Anaphylactic Sticker Shock

Anaphylactic Sticker Shock

by | Sep 3, 2014 | News

Well, maybe the trip is more phlegmatic Fred Thompson than gonzo Hunter S. And maybe we scarf grilled veggies and espresso instead of cocaine and booze (although rum will enter the picture), but we do cop drugs. The adventure began with a rant: “The last time I...

From Our Readers

by | Sep 3, 2014 | News

Gun Control Compromise I want to hunt. I attended my state-mandated hunter education course on April 16, over four months ago, and still haven’t received my license to purchase a firearm. Depending on when it finally arrives, I might miss goose hunting...
Not Just for Laughs

Not Just for Laughs

by | Sep 3, 2014 | News

Robin Williams, who took his own life on Aug. 10, was so multi-talented and so brilliantly funny that it is hard for most of us to imagine him sad, much less depressed. Part of it, of course, is that he was a movie star, far removed from our “normal”...