What’s the story of love?”
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Gardens by the Bay, an urban nature park, Singapore • Photo by Daniel Welsh on Unsplash
When is enough enough?
Eighteen years ago, Bill McKibben jolted our environmental awareness with a splendid little book, “The End of Nature,” that cataloged the ways human economic activities are rending the fabric of nature.
Anopheles funestus • Photo by James Gathany, Dr. Frank Collins, University of Notre Dame (Public Domain)
The bite that binds
Humans and mosquitos share an ancestor in deep time. Our kinship is revealed at the level of the genes. Certainly, we are enough alike chemically so that human blood protein is useful to the mosquito.
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Celebrating the ineffable
The scientific atheists (Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, for example) and the scientific theists (Francis Collins and Owen Gingerich, for example) hammer away at each other.