J. Robert Oppenheimer teemed with contradictions. He was shy and bold, naïve and brilliant, a loyal husband who cheated, a gentle man whose bomb could kill millions. That he loved quantum physics may be no accident. The field holds that some basic phenomena of the material world have opposing features …
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Christine Marlier was angry when President Emmanuel Macron called a snap election this summer. She’s even angrier now that he appointed a right-wing prime minister, despite the fact that a leftist bloc won the most seats in Parliament. But Ms. Marlier left that anger behind at home in the far …
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