Roller Derby Struggles To Retain Its Identity

Members of the Quabbin Missile Crisis huddle together, skating slowly around the flat track. Each player takes a turn standing taller than the rest, acknowledging the applause from the crowd as Drew Danger announces their names: Jack A. Lope, Chewbecca, Ro$han...
When (Subatomic) Worlds Collide

When (Subatomic) Worlds Collide

In September 1941, as Nazi Germany consolidated its hold on most of Europe, two of the century’s indispensable physicists met in Copenhagen, Denmark. Former colleagues, both of them key figures in the development of quantum theory, Niels Bohr and Werner...
Cultural Fusion

Cultural Fusion

Sheng Dong is a Taiwan-based troupe whose name means “A Moving Sound”—a fitting moniker for a company that not only blends music and movement, but moves, so to speak, between the worlds of Chinese and other Asian traditions and modern Western forms....