Capricious Electron
An engaging stranger named Peter Buchanan came into the office, apologized for taking my time, handed me a typewritten half-sheet of paper and asked me to read it and perhaps check it.
It was a theory he had spent 15 years developing, he said, and he felt it was vital for the world to know.
“As American scientists study the electron,” it began, “the electron will become more capricious, defiant of observation and measurement because
American scientists start with the wrong hypothesis.”
That’s as far as I got because the rest of it was about wave mechanics, quantum
phenomena and mathematical equations, including Einstein’s. He lost me. Continue reading
Postscript to a tragedy:
And so we complete our journey through the official documents telling the unfortunate saga of Walter and Christine Collins. I heard from a number of Daily Mirror readers who enjoyed the trek (scanning all these documents was more labor than I expected), one author working on a Collins project who was not terribly pleased that I was posting them on the Internet and from at least one reader asking “who cares?” 
January 10, 1909: If you strip away the moralistic tone used by the anonymous Times reporter, the problems of the young men caught up in gambling (in this case horse racing) a century ago are quite modern.
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