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Tony Rothman

Tony Rothman is a cosmologist and writer. His latest book is Everything's Relative and Other Fables from Science and Technology.

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What Einstein Knew

One year and five papers that changed physics forever

by Tony Rothman | Wednesday, December 01, 2004

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Going Viral

by Priscilla Long

Nearly a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s hard to remember that at one time most of our virus-related worries were limited to such seasonal maladies as the common cold. In this essay from 2012, Priscilla Long ponders the invasive nature of viruses—which, whether or not they are considered to be alive, “are a part of life.”

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