I watched as a tourist dismounted from a tour bus in Dingle town the other day. His video camcorder was glued to his eye as he came down the steps. Missed the bottom step and fell flat on his face.
Articles from July 2021
It’s a small world after all
Last week’s announcement [in 1996] by NASA of evidence of life on Mars was top-of-the-front-page news in this remote corner of Ireland.
The monster in the Milky Way
Every child at some time in his life has written his address this way: Billy Smith, 426 Oak Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Universe.
The bite that binds us
Here’s something to think about while you’re slapping mosquitoes this summer. We have more in common with these creatures than you might think.
Growing up with the BOMC
Dear Book-of-the-Month-Club, this is a fan letter from someone who has never belonged to your club.
A little poetry with the facts, M’am
Most people who make a living communicating science spend long hours reading the scientific literature. In a typical week, I peruse several books and a dozen journals.
Our bodies, our microbes
From a microbe’s point of view, there is nothing more attractive than a newborn human infant. A pristine planet waiting to be colonized.
Our family album of the bomb
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr, the father of atomic physics, was skeptical.
Starry summer nights
Childhood has two seasons: anticipation and summer.
Prime time isn’t ready for real science
Nobel prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman wants to bring science to prime time television.