BEN BOVA: It's only science fiction until technology catches up

It seems that whenever somebody disagrees with my opinion, they bring up the fact that I write science fiction.

Goings on About Town: Classical Music

PageBreak -- CONCERTS IN TOWN “THE HERITAGE AND LEGACY OF CHOPIN AND SCHUMANN” Beginning this week, Dicapo Opera Theatre will be the unlikely but accommodating venue for a ten-concert series by the pianist Ian Hobson, who will perform not only works by this year’s bicentennial . . .

The philosophy of astronomy - Simon Schaffer

What is the ideology that propels scientists to go to so much trouble? Think, for example, of the hazards involved in a voyage from Europe to our part of the world in the 18th century. Why would you go to all that effort just to observe the transit of Venus? For Science Week, we explore the philosophy of northern astronomy in the Southern Hemisphere with Simon Schaffer, Professor of the History ...