Mayor Bloomberg wants to slash $1.75 billion from city spending over the next 18 months - leading to almost 12% cuts in many city agencies. His budget director yesterday ordered $550 million in cuts by next July, and an additional $1.2 billion in the ...
Muni-meter receipts tell ticket agents when to set their watch to swoop down, if drivers can figure out signs such as one at left, to begin with. Should drivers get a five-minute grace period on parking tickets? Now that the elections are over, ...
Cosmologists are not your run-of-the-mill thinkers, and Max Tegmark is not your run-of-the-mill cosmologist. Throughout his career, Tegmark has made important contributions to problems such as measuring dark matter in the cosmos and understanding how ...
For Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok, the Big Bang ended on a summer day in 1999 in Cambridge, England. Sitting together at a conference they had organized, called “A School on Connecting Fundamental Physics and Cosmology,” the two physicists suddenly ...
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