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Your article seems to imply that there is something worse about spending 10 hours a week surfing the Web than other pastimes. Why isn’t 10 hours a week spent reading books, watching television, doing crossword puzzles, listening to music, or other solitary hobbies just as “socially isolating”? The sports fan who watches 10 hours of […]
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If large black holes are at the heart of most galaxies and they are dark by definition and we have no way to tell what their size is, couldn’t they be hiding enough mass to make up the missing mass in the universe? Georges KaufmanTampa, Fla. A central black hole would not cause the visible […]
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From the February 22, 1930, issue
THE “BARREL” OF CORONA When high voltage surges on electric transmission lines jump an ordinary string of insulators, arcs form from one insulator to the other and destroy them.
