One cannot predict future events exactly if one cannot even measure the present state of the universe precisely!
Paradise for people who look as if they have just stepped out of a Barbour catalogue.
Pharmaceutical industry hasn’t given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s. Our
Plan ahead. ‘[The] keys to success are to plan ahead, to choose manageable recipes and to cook in batches’ (The New York Times). Always tautological. Would you plan behind?
Quarks, a collective term that encompasses all particles that are governed by the strong nuclear force.
Replica. Properly, a replica is an exact copy, built to the same scale as the original and using the same materials. To use the word when you might better use ‘model’, ‘miniature’, ‘copy’ or ‘reproduc...
Shibboleth. People in Northern Ireland are naturally
Significance), 600,000 known archaeological sites (and more being found every day; more being lost, too), 3,500 historic cemeteries, 70,000 war memorials, 4,000 sites of special scientific interest, 1...
Space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light years, which is a great deal more than merely saying it makes it sound.
The Pilgrims didn’t have to learn Algonquian for the happy and convenient reason that Samoset and Squanto spoke English—Samoset only a little, but Squanto with total assurance (and some Spanish into t...
The atoms that so liberally and congenially flock together to form living things on Earth are exactly the same atoms that decline to do it elsewhere.
The beaver and bear nearly
The books tell you that if the grizzly comes for you, on no account should you run. This is the sort of advice you get from someone who is sitting at a keyboard when he gives it. Take it from me, if y...
The main expressed goal for oceanographers during International Geophysical Year, 1957/8, was to study the use of ocean depths for the dumping of radioactive wastes. This wasn’t a secret assignment, y...
Tiny bag of chemicals twitched and became animate. We were on our way. Four
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.
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...
Unstable plane for a day and a half through storm and cloud and darkness while intricately balancing the flow of fuel through five tanks governed by fourteen valves, and navigating his way across a vo...
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...
We are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes.
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