And now the state was about to bring the law back, proving conclusively that the danger for Tennesseans isn’t so much that they may be descended from apes as overtaken by them.
Among the other enthusiastic dumpers were Russia, China, Japan and nearly all the nations of Europe.
Altogether at least sixty thousand people were sterilized because of Laughlin’s efforts. At the peak of the movement in the 1930s, some thirty states had sterilization laws, though only Virginia and C...
Although the creation of a universe might be very unlikely, Tryon emphasized that no one had counted the failed attempts. Martin
All that is missing to connect her with Shakespeare is anything to connect her with Shakespeare.
All over the inchoate solar system, the same was happening. Colliding dust grains formed larger and larger clumps. Eventually the clumps grew large enough to be called planetesimals.
Advertising was already a well-established phenomenon by the turn of the twentieth century. Newspapers had begun carrying ads as far back as the early 1700s, and magazines soon followed. (Benjamin Fra...
A similar unhappy fate awaited the delightful Bachman’s warbler. Always rare, it was said to have one of the loveliest songs of all birds. For years it escaped detection, but in 1939, two birders, ope...
A quick Google search reveals there to be seven, ten, five, four or eight ‘years to save the planet’, depending on your headline writer and expert of choice (‘Eleven years to save the planet’ seems at...
A critic named John Carter was so exercised by Wyatt’s predilection for ripping out ancient interiors that he dubbed him the Destroyer and devoted 212 essays in the Gentleman’s Magazine—essentially hi...
99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.
1905. In that year, Einstein published three papers that revolutionized physics. In the same year he was turned down for two teaching jobs.
1 per cent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang.
Wondering how many tens of thousands of days have passed since BBC One last showed a program that anyone not on medication would want to watch.
We’re going to be in the wilderness in three days. There won’t be doughnut stores.
We are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes.
Wanted to be puzzled and charmed, to experience the endless, beguiling variety of a continent where you can board a train and an hour later be somewhere where the inhabitants speak a different languag...
Two billion years bacterial organisms were the only forms of life. They lived, they reproduced, they swarmed, but they didn’t show any particular inclination to move on to another, more challenging le...
Tropical hurricane can release in twenty-four hours as much energy as a rich, medium-sized nation like Britain or France uses in a year.
Tiny bag of chemicals twitched and became animate. We were on our way. Four