Giordano Bruno was born in the Kingdom of Naples in 1548, only a few years after the death of Copernicus. At the age of 24 he was ordained a Dominican priest, although his curious and uninhibited mind had already attracted the disapproval of his teachers.
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A statue honoring Giordano Bruno in the present day Campo de' Fiori • Photo by Fred Romero (CC BY 2.0)
Love vine at work • Photo by Forest & Kim Starr (CC BY 3.0)
Bahamian love vines cling and you can’t let them go
OK, so it’s Valentine’s Week. I’ve just spent a week pulling love vine out of the garden and I’m not feeling very romantic.
Detail from “The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo (c. 1512)
An appropriate mix of art, science
In early December [1999], the science journal Nature reported the sequencing of the first human chromosome — a complete transcription of the chemical units (nucleotides) making up the chromosomal DNA.
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A moon to fully recall
It has been a week and a half since the total lunar eclipse, but the beauty of it is still on my mind.
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Of the poet, scientists, and blackbirds
Eight black crows arrayed in the sparse limbs of a leafless elm, set against a gray winter sky. Their iridescent feathers burned like eight black candles — spooky, mournful, Bergmanesque.
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The next hot toy: Biochemistry sets
July 3, 2015. Hasbro-Mattel, the toy division of Microsoft Universal, today announced a product that will likely be found under many a Christmas tree later this year: The Little Creator Bioconstruction Set.
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Logic circles a strange phenomenon
My sister gave me a crop circle calendar for Christmas. That’s right, the Llewellyn’s 2000 Crop Circle Calendar, most of the contents of which are drawn from the bucolic countryside of southern England, the Holy Land of the crop circle phenomenon.