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plavix 90 day supply I confess. In weaker moments, I sneak a glance at "The Big Bang Theory" on TV. As a theoretical physicist, I chuckle and cringe at this hapless crew of fumbling physicists. Why can't the media portray scientists as ordinary people, driven by an extraordinary fascination with nature's mysteries? Astronomer Fred Watson's "Star Craving Mad" is like a breath of cool, spring air, convincing us the splendor of the night sky is truly the greatest show on tonight. But scientists have our own skeletons in the closet, such as the scandalous treatment of women scientists. In "The Universe in the Rearview Mirror," Dave Goldberg writes about the humiliations suffered by early 20th-century mathematician Emmy Noether, who had to publish papers under a male name. The conservation of energy is one of the most cherished principles in physics. But where does it come from? Noether proved that if nature's laws have a symmetry (e.g., don't change in time), energy is automatically conserved. She was, Einstein said, "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."