It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.
The average asteroid actually will be about one and a half million kilometres from its nearest neighbour.
Cosmological constant to his theory, at the Lowell Observatory in
The basement. Katz
Plants began the process of land colonization about 450 million years ago, accompanied of necessity by tiny mites and other organisms which they needed to break down and recycle dead organic matter on...
It was always Christmas at my grandparents’ house, or Thanksgiving, or the Fourth of July, or somebody’s birthday. There was always happiness there.
Satisfyingly dizzying
If all the ice sheets melted, sea levels would rise by 60 metres.
It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.
The next time you spray on Chanel No. 5 (assuming you do), you may wish to reflect that you are dousing yourself in distillate of unseen sea monster.
Columbus never found Antilla or anything else he was looking for. His epochal voyage of 1492 was almost the last thing—indeed almost the only thing—that went right in his life. Within eight years, he...
Our word salary comes literally from the vulgar Latin salarium, salt money—the Roman soldier’s ironic term for what it would buy.
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which states that the electron is a particle but a particle that can be described in terms of waves.
Looked at from above, west London isn’t so much a city as a forest with buildings.
I didn’t ask for twenty quarter-pound cheeseburgers, I asked for four quarter-pound cheeseburgers five times. Same thing, he said. It’s not the same thing at all. You can’t be this stupid. Two
The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.
It’s easy to make bricks, but making houses requires far more than throwing a pile of bricks in the air.
And all children everywhere go through a phase in which they become oddly fascinated with the idea of gone and all gone.
Experimentation without mathematical explanation is blind; mathematical explanation without experimentation is empty.
Report in The Economist as much as 97 per cent of the world’s plant and animal species may still await discovery. Of
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