Recent content by William Madden

Minor point: Arsenic is not a metal.

I don't remember the exact answer, but it is at least double (and that is probably understated by a factor of two). Mauna Loa means "Long Mountain" in Hawaiian. Perhaps that should be "Loooong Mountain". From certain directions, such as driving up the Saddle Road from the west, the two...

Yes. As scientists (or even journalists), we certainly would not want to waste time getting our facts straight. That's for the Fake News crowd. Nor would we want to acknowledge that Einstein, fleeing from Hitler's pogroms, did not exactly come into a Jewish Nirvana. The United States (and the...

Albert Einstein was never, ever a "professor of physics" at Princeton University. At the time, Princeton, like most Ivy League universities, was highly anti-Semitic and either forbad the hiring of Jewish faculty or enforced a quota on their number. Einstein accepted a position at the newly...