With appearances on comedy shows, books in the best-seller lists and the unforgettable image of a brilliant mind in an ailing body, Stephen Hawking has earned the title of the world's most famous ...
Bob Dylan won the the Nobel Prize for literature in October and had until Saturday 10 June to deliver the lecture or forfeit the prize money. Thankfully, he made his lecture just in time. In his ...
Stephen Hawking, the "world's most famous scientist", is giving this year's BBC Reith Lectures. As a guide for the "interested but perplexed", I have added a few notes (in italics below) to the ...