Science Musings
The stories below were written by Chet Raymo, a professor of physics at Stonehill College and the author of several books on science. Science Musings appears every Monday in the Boston Globe's Health and Science section. Articles are listed according to their date of publication.
Mr. Computer tackles the Y2K bug, 03/08/99
For wildness,hope lies in reality, not romanticism, 03/01/99
Things too beautiful not to be true, 02/22/99
Washed away in a sea of light, 02/15/99
Getting personal in the lab, 02/08/99
Tiny clues, big answers, 02/01/99
Barred from science, 01/25/99
Trading years for tears, and loving it, 01/18/99
From lousy to worse, 01/11/99
The one who changed the world, 01/04/99
In case you missed it, 12/28/98
The day the Furbies said `no', 12/21/98
Losing it in the translation, 12/14/98
Listening for the music of creation, 12/07/98
Who's what where, 12/06/98
The word from the heavenly gates , 11/30/98
Can we ever make amends?, 11/23/98
Buddhist Monk finds new practitioners searching to fill void, 11/21/98
Mother nature can use some help, 11/16/98
A way of knowing, ways of believing, 11/09/98
The circle widens, much too late, 11/02/98
The moment when life ceased to be microscopic, 10/26/98
From the Pilgrims' axes, an ethic of squander, 10/19/98
Birds, beasts and morality, 10/14/98
Did Darwin make him do it?, 10/12/98
Priestley pops in at Oskar's, 10/06/98
Alone with a sense of wonder, 10/05/98
Thus we behold a deadly beauty, 9/28/98
Cloning humans: it's going to happen, 9/21/98
Flopping into the future -- and past, 9/14/98
Life on the water planet, 9/07/98
Learning at Daddy-Long-Legs' knee, 8/31/98
To nurture or nature, 8/3/98
The bestseller we keep rewriting, 7/27/98
On Mars, it's a matter of saving face, 7/13/98
Adam, Badam, Bo-badam, 7/6/98
We're just one big happy family, 6/29/98
Whatever are grandmothers for?, 6/22/98
Is it mind over matter, or mind over data?, 6/15/98
When your hour is up, 6/8/98
Beauty and the brain, 6/1/98
Kindred spirits, 5/25/98
The discovery of ignorance, 5/18/98
One man: sliced thin and digitized, 5/11/98
From terrible violence came the elements of life, 5/4/98
Out of the darkness, 4/27/98
The hand on the controls is survival, 4/20/98
Hair-brained in space, 4/13/98
Lord of the flies, 4/6/98
The great exterminator, 3/30/98
Survivors from an ancient time, 3/23/98
Science sealed their fate, 3/16/98
The third culture, 3/9/98
Comets, stars, and rock 'n roll, 3/2/98
Computer graphic, 2/23/98
Getting down to the bedrock, 2/16/98
The lore of the flowers, 2/9/98
Galileo gets the last laugh, 2/2/98
Adventure yes, breakthrough no, 1/26/98
The moment we became different, 1/19/98
The end: clearer, but not nearer, 1/12/98
Beauty bare on the spiral staircase, 1/5/98
Glowing mice and other news we missed in '97, 12/29/97
Reconciling the 'Adams' of the soul, 12/22/97
Software, ratware and catware, 12/8/97
Mediocre though it may be, Carbon is the stuff of life, 12/1/97
Not the place to find good science, 11/24/97
The oracle's no match for El Nino, 11/17/97
Get in touch with your inner animal, 11/3/97
This celebrity's a real star - or two, 10/27/97
Firing up the time machine, 10/13/97
Still the best game in town, 9/29/97
Language diversity is languishing, 4/10/95
Teaching a sense of wonder, 7/25/94
What the other half wants, 2/14/94
The loving side of a violent people, 2/11/91
The boy who wouldn't stay 'in his place', 7/23/90
Mr. Toad doesn't live there anymore, 5/28/90
Dipping into a formicary, 1/22/90
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