“As time went by, I realized that the particular place I’d chosen was less important than the fact that I’d chosen a place and focused my life around it.”
Articles from December 2020
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The new computer-controlled Charles Hayden Planetarium • Photo Credit Museum of Science, Boston © Michael Malyszko 2010
Zooming through the heavens for a picnic on Mars
Sputnik! America’s rude awakening. When the Soviet’s hurled their beach-ball-sized satellite into space on October 4, 1957, this country’s vaulted illusion of scientific and technological supremacy came crashing to earth.
The dung beetle at work • Photo by Andi Gentsch (CC BY-SA 2.0)
In praise of nature’s small sweeper-uppers
A new television commercial contrasts the fun of drinking Pepsi with the boredom of attending college classes. In the classroom sequence, a tweedy professor drones on about “dung beetles.”