To Invent The Future You Must Build Upon The Past

Choreographer and dancer Guy Thorne carries the baton forward with with his troupe, FuturPointe Dance.

Adam Frank

It was a warm summer night in the sleepy Dutch town of Leiden. Along with a handful grad students and faculty members from Leiden University, I was standing in the courtyard of my professor's beautifully restored 16th century townhouse. We had just finished an amazing dinner
(he was as good a cook as he was a carpenter and a theoretical physicist) and the conversation was turning to stories of the great ones.
This often happens when scientists get in a certain kind of reflective mood.
The gathered professors were telling stories of their encounters with luminaries like..

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