From a microbe’s point of view, there is nothing more attractive than a newborn human infant. A pristine planet waiting to be colonized.
Propionibacterium • Image by CDC/Bobby Strong (Public Domain)
The culmination of the Manhattan Project • US Department of Energy (Public Domain)
Our family album of the bomb
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr, the father of atomic physics, was skeptical.
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Starry summer nights
Childhood has two seasons: anticipation and summer.
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Prime time isn’t ready for real science
Nobel prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman wants to bring science to prime time television.
Martian meteorite ALH84001 • NASA/JSC (Public Domain)
Messages from space
How do we gather the stuff of the universe for study here on Earth?
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Thinking and learning have nothing to do with IT
A document titled “Using Information Technology to Enhance Academic Productivity” recently came across my desk.
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It all adds up to a very Big Bang
“Professor, that stuff you spoke of in class this morning — about the beginning of the universe…”
Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) • Photo by Melissa McMasters (CC BY 2.0)
From the beetles’ point of view
A famous story in the history of science has the classical scholar Benjamin Jowett ask the biologist J. B. S. Haldane what he had learned about God from his scientific studies.
A Sudanese combatant in 2011 • Photo by Steve Evans (CC BY 2.0)
A higher kind of growing up
Nine years ago, to escape the terror and unrest of their war-torn homeland, 10,000 boys of the Dinka tribe of southern Sudan began an unaccompanied trek that would take them hundreds of miles into Ethiopia, back to Sudan, and finally to a refugee camp in Kenya.
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The sounds we hear too rarely
Maybe it’s because I don’t hear as keenly as I used to that I’ve been paying more attention to my auditory sense.