Something Positive In A Neutron Star
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 13:50
in Psychology & Sociology
One night last October, I arrived twenty minutes early to a Science College lecture at Concordia’s Oscar Peterson Hall. I noticed that the Hall connected to their library and walked in. It was years since I had stepped into the reference section of a university library. The feeling was akin to what you would experience if you had finally bathed in a tropical lagoon after years of living in the desert. There was a 65-volume reference set on heterocyclic chemistry, a CRC handbook that focused only photobiology and photochemistry, a gorgeous astronomical atlas, a brand new textbook on Chinese herbal medicines. read more