Russian-born Max Weber grew up in New York, studied art there, and then went back to Europe to familiarize himself with contemporary artistic developments. On returning to the United States, Weber worked in the new style he had discovered in Paris and soon became recognized 5 as a pioneer of American abstract painting. an example [...]

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Magnesium is anther mineral we now obtain by collecting huge volumes of ocean water and treating it with chemicals, although originally it was derived only from brines or from the treatment of such magnesium-containing rocks as dolomite, of which whole mountain ranges are composed. In 5 a cubic mile of seawater there are abut four [...]

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When some nineteenth-century New Yorkers said “Harlam” , they meant almost all of Manhattan above Eighty-sixth Street. Toward the end of the century, however, a group of citizens in upper Manhattan- wanting, perhaps, to shape a closer and more precise sense of community-designated 5 a section that they wished to have known as Harlem. The [...]

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Sound moves form its source to the ear by wavelike fluctuations in air pressure, something like the crests and troughs of ocean waves. Once way to keep from hearing sound is to use ear plugs. Another way is to cancel out the sound with anti-sound. Using a noisemarker 5 controlled by a microprocessor, engineers have [...]

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For Emily Dickinson there were three worlds, and she lived in all of them, marking them the substance of everything that she thought and wrote. There was the world of nature, the things and the creatures that she saw, heard, felt about her; there was the ” estate ” that 5 was the world of [...]

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