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From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

In a first-of-its-kind large-scale study, scientists created giant fire whirls, spinning columns of flame that resemble fire tornadoes, and found they burn oil faster and more cleanly than conventional methods.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

If constructed, it will be topped with gilded bald eagles and an angelic Lady Liberty; its speckless white-marble columns will be wide enough to obstruct sight lines to the Lincoln Memorial.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

Though we’d never been introduced, I knew of him through his newspaper columns, which I read in the Conservative Chronicle, a weekly publication that reprinted the work of right-leaning newspaper columnists.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The figures at the base of columns are the first year of the decade, so 1470 refers to the decade 1470-1479.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton