by admin | Mar 7, 2013 | News
It’s been 60 years since James Watson and Francis Crick had their groundbreaking insight into the physical structure of DNA. Their model of the DNA molecule established its now-famous double-helix shape, and proposed, for the first time in history, the precise...
by admin | Feb 28, 2013 | News
What kind of family has its own maxim? I remember asking myself the question as I flipped through my high school yearbook in 1984. There, among the senior pages, with their absurdly posed photographs; the long cliquish lists of “likes” and...
by admin | Feb 21, 2013 | News
Any contractor worth his salt will tell you: when floors and walls are open, take plenty of pictures! This is especially true in an old house, where stud and joist bays can hide all manner of sins: frayed knob and tube wiring; cracked cast-iron waste stacks;...
by admin | Feb 14, 2013 | News
Do you know where you were the night of January 28th, 2001? I can tell you where I was: walking south on St. Paul Street in Baltimore as the city erupted in fireworks, the powerful concussions punctuated every now and then by the clatter of celebratory gunfire....
by admin | Feb 7, 2013 | News
I got into an argument with a poet in Lithuania the other day. On Facebook. It started with perfectly normal Facebook behavior. The poet — who, by the way, used to live on Warm Springs Road, but has since relocated to Vilnius — reposted an article from...
by admin | Jan 31, 2013 | News
Our daughter’s classmate, Wenrui (“When-ray”), has now been living with us for a few weeks, long enough to have taught me a few lessons about living bravely in a foreign country. Most of these have had to do with food. Wenrui is an exceedingly polite...
