One million bucks! Perhaps not as prestigious as a Nobel prize, but certainly more money. Physicist Paul Davies is a lucky man.
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"The Creation of the Sun and the Moon" by Michelangelo
Rattus norvegicus • Photo by Pete Beard (CC BY 2.0)
13 ways of looking at a rat
The rat in the attic is nocturnal. All night long it scampers in the dusty pitch between the rafters, making a noise like fingernails drumming on tin. At dawn, it gnaws on something in the wall. Is it excavating an entrance into our space, the space of light?
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Headlong toward nowhere
This is the sad saga of an American roadway.
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Language diversity is languishing
In prehistoric times there were 10,000 languages spoken in the world. No kidding. Ten thousand. Maybe more.
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.
Image by Matthias Wewering from Pixabay
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.