Benjamin Labatut

Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work.

When We Cease to Understand the World

Noreen Farsai

Stephen Schenkenberg

This point really helped me to grasp that sometimes, even the most intellectual of individuals find things that are accurate and factual but don't hold any relevance in our lives whatsoever.

Jordan Parker

physics is rife with infinities that are nothing more than numbers on paper, abstractions that do not represent real-world objects

Syrina

In a medical examination on the eve of the Nuremberg Trials, the doctors found the nails of Hermann Göring's fingers and toes stained a furious red, the consequence of his addiction to dihydrocodeine, an analgesic of which he took more than one hundred pills a day. William Burroughs described it as similar to heroin, twice as strong as codeine, but with a wired coke-like edge.

 The liquid form of then poison, known in Germany as Blausäure or blue acid, is highly volatile: it boils at twenty-six degrees Celsius and gives off a slight aroma of almonds, which not everyone can distinguish as doing so requires a gene absent in forty per cent of humanity.

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