A Republican conservative friend of mine was crowing the other day about his party's success in political contests around the country. They control the House, the Senate, and the presidency, and ...

While the pendulum theory of politics has few true believers, it does tend to agitate quadrennial questions about the “mood of the nation” — and whether or not the next President need be a polar ...

According to Umno information chief Ahmad Maslan’s pendulum theory, the Permatang Pasir state seat is as good as in BN’s bag. "Going by this pendulum theory of mine, the BN will win (in the ...

If you believe the pendulum theory of politics, you would conclude that in Vermont the pendulum has swung well to the left. But if you believe the theory, you know it won t always stay there.

India's newly inaugurated Parliament building, unveiled on Sunday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, boasts several new features and installations compared to the old structure. One notable addition is ...

A replica of Foucault's famous experiment at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e Tecnica in Milan, Italy Wikimedia Commons On February 3, 1851, a 32-year-old Frenchman—who’d dropped out of medical ...

In 1851, the French physicist Léon Foucault provided an experimental proof of the Earth’s rotation using a pendulum. Although Foucault is best known for this ingenious experiment, he also made several ...

The Foucault pendulum which was displayed for many years in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History was removed in late 1998 to make room for the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation ...