In prehistoric times there were 10,000 languages spoken in the world. No kidding. Ten thousand. Maybe more.
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The Grand Canyon (Not pictured: The elevator to the bottom) • Photo by Alan Carrillo on Unsplash
America’s not-so-natural wonders
Natural and artificial are increasingly difficult to distinguish.
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We’ll always be stuck in the middle
“You’re searching, Joe, for things that don’t exist.”
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The day the elephants had had enough
“Elephants always remember,” Peter Finch says to Elizabeth Taylor in the 1954 film Elephant Walk.
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Anna Logue: Unplugged and unabashed
I knew the moment I touched the doorbell that this interview was going to be different.
William Jennings Bryan (left) debates Clarence Darrow (right) at the Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee, 1925.
The real battle over creationism
Here’s a statistic that may surprise you. According to a 1993 Gallup poll, 47 percent of all Americans believe that God created human beings pretty much in their present form sometime during the past 10,000 years.
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The ways of a crow — that’s calculus in motion
A crow in a snowy dawn. It hopped into the air, imprinting the snow with its black-fingered wings.
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Why is all this sex necessary anyway?
“What’s the story of love?” I posed the question to Dr. Henry Testosterone, noted evolutionary biologist.
Reproduction of handprints in Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France • Photo by Claude Valette (CC BY-SA 4.0)
In the beginning, there were fingers and toes
Itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out…
Goldenrod galls • Photo by SriMesh (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Making mischief with nature’s toys
Among massed goldenrods at the side of the path, my eye fell upon a plant with a spherical swelling in the stem — a bulge like a snake digesting a fat, round meal. Suddenly, I was swept by childhood memories.