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Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick was a prolific science fiction author who ditched bug-eyed monsters and spacemen to explore the nature of reality and paranoia on a cosmic scale. In spite of winning a Hugo Award…Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) (U.S.)
Destination: Solar orbit. Launched: June 30, 2001. Arrival: Oct. 1, 2001. Mission: To reveal conditions as they existed in the early universe by measuring the properties of cosmic microwave…Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote dozens of satirical novels whose central theme was life's cosmic joke on humanity. A modern-day Mark Twain, right down to the bushy mustache and black humor, Vonnegut was often…Raymond Davis, Jr. 2006 Deaths
Raymond Davis, Jr.Age: 91 chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 for the detection of cosmic neutrinos—tiny particles that are created by nuclear reactions on the Sun. Died:…U.S. Societies & Associations (P)
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (1981): 1726 M St. N.W., Ste. 400, Washington, D.C. 20036. 77,000 households. Phone: (202) 467-8180. www.pflag.org. Parents Without Partners (1957…Karlheinz Stockhausen Biography
composerDied: Dec. 5, 2007 (Kuerten-Kettenberg, Germany) Best Known as: German composer of operas and innovative compositions Stockhausen was a German…pion
(Encyclopedia) pionpionpīˈŏn [key] or pi meson, lightest of the meson family of elementary particles. The existence of the pion was predicted in 1935 by Hideki Yukawa, who theorized that it was…David Carradine
Name at birth: John Arthur CarradineActor David Carradine shot to stardom in the early 1970s as the star of the television series Kung Fu (1972-75). He played Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest in…2006 Nobel Prize Winners
Peace: Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh) and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh for “their efforts to create economic and social development from below”Literature: Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) “who in the…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Invocation to Misery
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Song for 'Tasso'Stanzas Written in Dejection, ...Invocation to Misery Published by Medwin, "The Athenaeum", September 8, 1832. Reprinted (as "Misery, a Fragment")…Trending
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