The Parallax

My Love Affair with Cooking

from Matzo Balls to Boeuf Bourguignon

How the Manipulation of Energy Propels Civilization Forward

The Search for Advanced Civilizations in the Universe

The Quantum Link Between Dogs and Humans

In the 2009 film Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, a professor of music finds a lost puppy at the…

Are Nanosuits in Our Near Future?

When I was a teenager living in Brooklyn of the 1950s, I did not know how to defend myself and was…

The Rewards and Perils of Mining the Ocean Floor

I Dog-Bot

I’d been living by myself in an apartment in New Jersey for two years and getting increasingly lonely. My nightly dinners and weekends…

Will Quantum Computers be Able to Solve Any Problem in Seconds?

How a New Generation of Eco-Warriors is Saving the Planet from the Onslaught of Plastics