Joel Kowalewski, PhD Linkedin The princess’s objection May 6th, 1643, The Hague. She writes in French, puts ink to paper. Plainly, for all who watch, her arms move like clever machines. But something hides in the mechanism. Motion is transferred by contact, pen to paper — one body

Joel Kowalewski, PhD Linkedin The brain that broke time Your browser does not support the audio tag. A beam of light cuts the darkness, illuminating the boy who runs to keep pace. The light beam runner moves and moves fast, until matching the light exactly. He watches the

Joel Kowalewski, PhD Linkedin Lucretius and the hooked atoms Around the middle of the first century before our era, the Roman poet Lucretius set out to explain the whole of nature in verse, and when he came to the senses he gave an account that was, for its

Joel Kowalewski, PhD Linkedin Two letters, one idea, June 1858 In the third week of June 1858, a parcel reached Down House in Kent, carried by the ordinary post from an island in the Malay Archipelago. Charles Darwin opened it and read, in the hand of a younger

Joel Kowalewski, PhD Linkedin A story of the forest and its end It is 1765 in the pinewoods of Prussia and Saxony, the old woodland — a tangle of species, ages, undergrowth, fungi and rot — is the thing that escapes us. We take the familiar and impose

Joel Kowalewski, PhD Linkedin The physicist’s question In February 1943, in a lecture hall at Trinity College Dublin, a physicist exiled from Austria stood up to answer a question that was not, strictly, one he was accustomed to asking. Erwin Schrödinger—one of the founders of quantum mechanics—had titled