Answers to the two questions posed on the front page.
Question 1
Which physicist coined the term entropy in 1865?
Reveal answer to question 1
Rudolf Clausius. His 1865 paper introduced the term; see the translated paper and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Answer added to the web edition · 2026-10-21
Question 2
The Wakhan Corridor is part of which present-day country?
Reveal answer to question 2
Afghanistan. Its narrow shape preserves the nineteenth-century Great Game buffer; see National Geographic.
Answer added to the web edition · 2026-10-21
The questions remain near the front of the edition; the answers stay here at the end.