Only one universe to observe
Theoretical cosmologist Roberto Trotta talks to SCOPE about the anthropic principle, slow data, and his science’s happy similarity to art
A joyful soup
Fernando Jaramillo Vélez is an artist who seems to live in a world in which surfaces have a teeming layer of organic detail that the rest of us cannot see. In his Oxidente series he uses oil and acid to mar…
Twice as bright, but half as long
Recent improvements in the ability of the oil industry to successfully drill for oil in “tight” non-porous rock formations like shale, using methods like hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and horizontal drilling, have revolutionized the conversation about energy in the United States….
Touch the lightning
How to describe the California band He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister? As a combination of several things, really. A sound that’s part blues and part folk and — not by definition — draws on rockabilly too. A visual style…
Everyday Africa
Like their wordy colleagues, photojournalists share an instinct for finding and documenting “the story” — which, in the case of Africa, typically results in emotionally-jarring images of war, famine, and poverty. Freelance documentary photographer Peter DiCampo is no stranger to…
Dying here is forbidden
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks,” Queen Gertrude dryly observes to her son Hamlet after watching a play he has staged about the murder of a king and the remarriage of his wife — a play meant to echo…
