“Only connect!” the great 20th-century novelist E.M. Forster urged, and it is a message beautifully brought home to us now, more than 100 years later, by Naomi Shihab Nye in her radiant gem of ...

At the commencement of his lecture, the Marchese Marconi referred to the fact that in 1896 he demonstrated the possibilities of short-distance wireless communication on a wavelength of about 30 cm ...