The Writer's Almanac from Monday, January 8, 2001 "The Early Morning," by Hillaire Belloc. ORIGINAL AUDIO - 2001 ORIGINAL TEXT - 2001 It's the birthday of British physicist Stephen Hawking, born in Oxford, England (1942), who pursues what physicists call a Grand Unified Theory, or a "Theory of Everything." As Hawking puts it, "My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe." His most important work in physics has explored the nature of "singularities," anomalies in the space-time continuum commonly known as "black holes." In 1988, he published
On Jan 8, 2024, at 7:00 AM, The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor wrote: It's the birthday of English novelist Wilkie Collins, born in London (1824), author of Antonina (1850) and other novels, and a lifelong friend of Charles Dickens'.
Collins’ more import contribution to literature was The Moonstone, which established many elements of the modern detective novel and police procedural genre.
On Jan 8, 2024, at 7:00 AM, The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor wrote: It's the birthday of English novelist Wilkie Collins, born in London (1824), author of Antonina (1850) and other novels, and a lifelong friend of Charles Dickens'.
Collins’ more import contribution to literature was The Moonstone, which established many elements of the modern detective novel and police procedural genre.