creativity

by Douglas Mercer FOR THOUSANDS and thousands of years, the fastest a man ever traveled was on a horse: 12 miles per hour. Finally it was Europeans, as always, who moved us forward, creating the train going some five times that fast. Then along came cars and then planes. When jet engines arose around 1930…

by Helmut Stuka EVERY TIMELESS truth seems obvious in retrospect. It is the mark of supreme genius to first discover or synthesize a truth which is beyond the ken of they who know it not, yet obvious to all who know it already. This principle holds true in abstract mathematics, in the natural sciences,…