From the earliest moments of human consciousness, our ancestors began telling stories to explain the origins of the universe and the creation of life as we […]
Limericks and poetry that address and express the more hard-headed principles of science.
When my daughter was about five years old, she turned to me and asked, “Why is there a world.” I didn’t want to insult her intelligence […]
If there’s anything I’m truly sure of, it’s that a small amount of absolute certainty can take you a long ways — in the wrong direction. […]
Whether the earth is on the verge of an apocalyptic collapse is difficult to say. Of course, a large contingency of American voters and elected officials […]
For the sake of elegance, physicists and mathematicians have composed a panoply of exquisite equations to explain the motions of physical bodies, from the astronomically large […]
When I’m not writing, and sometimes when I am, there’s no place I’d rather be than wandering through the mountains among the fields and forests, taking […]