It’s a perfect picture of what this blog is about: serious fun. It’s also one of my favorite pop culture photos and there’s a good story behind it. Word is that when a UPI photographer asked good old ...

Albert Einstein, whose theories exploded and reshaped our ideas of how the universe works, died on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and cremation were intensely private ...

Einstein's Big Idea homepage. When you hear the name Albert Einstein, what do you think of? Many people picture a brilliant but absent-minded man with wild white hair.

Think of a picture of Albert Einstein. Any picture. It was probably the one of him sticking out his tongue, wasn’t it? That iconic photo by Arthur Sasse is about to become an icon on your phone.

So it’s funny to learn that he changed his mind, 20 years after suggesting the idea. ... Albert Einstein and Relativity in the Pages of The Times Jan. 17, 2017; Best of 2016: ...