I sing of slime electric. The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, they will not let me off till I respond to them, and discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.
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Dictyostelium discoideum • Photo by Usman Bashir (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Astrophysicist’s apocalyptic ideas are 95% meaningless
Associated Press news report: “Repent, The End of the World May be Nearer Than You Think, Astrophysicist Calculates.”
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Searching for alien beings is like playing the lottery
Are we alone in the universe? Answering this question is the goal of the scientific project called SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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A world under glass
I have on my desk a clear glass sphere about three inches in diameter, on a plastic stand. The sphere is two-thirds filled with water. The remaining volume contains air. A snip of green algae, sea grass, floats in the water, and four tiny pink shrimp swim lazily about. The sphere is completely sealed. With the exception of heat and light, there are no transactions with the outside environment.
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Roots of clay for family tree?
At the time Genesis was written, clay was the premier material of artisans. Of it were made containers, tablets for writing, and effigies of animals and men. So what was more natural than for the Creator to do his work in the same medium. According to the author of Genesis, the Lord took up clay into his hands and molded it into the beasts of the field and the birds of the air. And the first man.
Are we alone? • NASA/JPL/Cornell
Let’s face it — we’re mediocre
There are as many stars in the Milky Way Galaxy as there are grains of salt in 10,000 boxes of salt. Our sun with its family of planets is a typical “grain.” With their largest telescopes astronomers can see more galaxies than there are boxes of salt in all of the supermarkets of the world, and among them the Milky Way is typical.
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My very distant cousin, the turnip
This much is certain: The turnip is my cousin. The hummingbird and the humpback whale are twigs on my family tree. Bacteria and viruses are my kith and kin.