It had rained in sheets for 40 days and 40 nights.
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Teaching a sense of wonder
What should sixth graders know about science?
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Just stop a minute and think about it
Sometimes it’s fun to think about things that no one has thought about before.
Detail from “The Old Man in Love” by Lucas Cranach the Elder (ca. 1530)
And now, the dirty-old-man gene
Stop the presses! Scientist makes astounding discovery!
Teilhard de Chardin • Archives des jésuites de France (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Will we always be lost in the chasm?
On the shelves of my college library, the biographies of Teilhard de Chardin rest between those of the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and the mystic Simone Weil.
Typical gut bacteria grown in a petri dish • Image by Nicola Fawcett and Christopher Wood (CC BY-SA 4.0)
No more free lunch at this table
You may want to stop reading now. I want to talk about microbes. And to start with, I want to talk about the microbes that inhabit the human body.
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Silicon chauvinism strikes
HAL: Greetings, young PAL, it’s good to hear from you.
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The incredible is not the impossible
The human eye is dear to Creationists.
Reconstruction of Australopithecus afarensis • Image by Protocultura from Pixabay
Great plot, but casting may be tough
Hey, Tony baby, the concept is a knockout. A Hollywood movie about the earliest human.
The Apple Newton (left) and an Apple iPhone (right) • Photo by Blake Patterson (CC BY 2.0)
Computers learn to get personal
A young Russian student came to my college to study computers. We became friends. When he returned to Russia we exchanged letters.