Wes Phillips

Sitting in Hong Kong harbor one afternoon, I watched container ship after container ship set sail across the Pacific, piled unbelievably high with cargo modules. I asked my host, "How can that be stable?"

Timewise, that is.

That's what Tommy and Stuart Mitchell think. They claim the 15^th century chapel's ornately carved patterns and cubes contain a musical sequence, concealed "because knowledge of harmonics may have been seen as dangerous, even heretical, by 15th Century church authorities."

Scientific American tells you how to construct a quantum eraser at home—a devise that proves that actions in the present can change our basic interpretation of what happened in past events.

According to Huckleberry, it's a good ear scratch.

"A linkworthy piece of musical-cultural criticism," writes John Marks. I agree. Now if John Derbyshire had merely said Saturday Night Fever was the greatest movie ever, I'd have agreed to disagree. His passionate and specific arguments, however, have convinced me to see it again with an open mind.

Joshua Ferris ponders the absence of work in literature. We spend most of our lives doing it, but it's MIA on the pages—unless you're a soldier, whaler, or private eye.