Beethoven’s 14th String Quartet, a tangled seven movement masterpiece, has been regarded by some as the pinnacle of art music. It was never conceived to be played for an audience (few of his quartets were) but an orchestrated version helped [See the full post…]

The benefits of free association are not so far-fetched–the planets and the sun may not be a perfect analogy for an atom, but the idea has certainly inspired the scientific imagination. The same is true of the computer chip. When [See the full post…]