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...PHYSICIST Sir Isaac Newton is usually seen as the enemy of athletes. So much of sports, after all, involves battling gravity. But basketball coach Holger Geschwindner, 62, has found a way to turn the laws of physics to his advantage. A former captain of the German national team and a physicist, he has developed a series of formulas that may reveal the optimum arc for jump shots, using a combination of player height, arm length and release point. "Take differential and integral calculus. Make some derivations and create a curve," he recently said. "Everybody...
...chance that Lake Mead could be effectively dry by 2021 if the climate changes as forecast and water use is not curtailed. "I think we're at or beyond the level of water in the Southwest at which civilization can be sustained," says Tim Barnett, a research marine physicist at Scripps who co-authored the study...
...October, Joseph Taylor, a Princeton physicist and Nobel Laureate, lectured before a large Iranian university audience and was lavished with media attention fit for a celebrity. Five Iranian scientists who specialize in food-borne diseases spent three weeks this past November touring U.S. institutions, coast to coast...
...Paris Hilton is a moron.” But Reiss said he has become jaded by the heavy presence of celebrities at the Simpsons office. In fact, he joked that he has walked into the Emmy-winning show’s second-floor office to find wheelchair-bound theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking just sitting there—even though the building has no elevators. After the speech, Reiss was given a Hillel shirt, hat, and necktie. “[The event] was sort of structured, like one of those Catskills comedy acts,” said Simpsons...
...seems to have offered even less in the way of speed, unless the turnover rate of its governments counts. By showcasing the equipment used by Carlo Rubbia, the exhibition provides an interesting - though less than pertinent - reminder that Italy has produced a Nobel-winning particle physicist. And the bulky fax machines, computers and cell phones featured from the 1980s seem largely irrelevant...