While Eastern theaters staged plays depicting Mormons as bloodthirsty polygamists, Brigham Young was building a Drury Lane replica in the Utah desert. It would go on to host Oscar Wilde, the Barrymore family across four generations, and Brigham Young’s own son performing in drag to packed houses. It was the most ambitious act of cultural …
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Trusting Smallness in an Infinity-squared Universe
By Frances Lee Menlove Several years ago, I attended the retirement gathering for a prominent physicist. In the middle of his brief speech, he dramatically held out both arms and said: “The most amazing thing, the most awesome thing, in my entire lifetime has been the revolution in astronomy—it is a revolution that is …