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Not Digging the Dinos
I enjoy a good dinosaur book as much as any former nine-year old, but was honestly disappointed with two new dino books this year. How to Build a Dinosaur by well-known paleontologist Jack Horner, was the first. The author’s name … Continue reading
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Every Living Thing (Rob Dunn)
“Life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, crashes through barriers… Life finds a way.” When Ian Malcolm (played by Jeff Goldblum in the movie Jurassic Park) said those words, he was foreshadowing the disastrous … Continue reading
The Pluto Files (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Seventy-nine years ago today in Flagstaff, Arizona, young Clyde Tombaugh noticed a dot move on successive photographic plates. It was Pluto shifting against a background of fixed stars. For the next three-quarters of century, Pluto was the oddball ninth planet … Continue reading
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Lincoln and Darwin Dual Bicentennial
A remarkable coincidence will be observed next week. Two men who made enormous impacts on the world were born on the same day two hundred years ago: February 12, 1809. Abraham Lincoln, arguably the greatest American president, was born in … Continue reading
Circumference (Nicholas Nicastro)
When I first learned about Eratosthenes from some long-forgotten astronomy book in my youth, roughly age 10, I fell in love with the name: Air-uh-TOSS-the-knees. I’ve always enjoyed pronouncing long words and names like that. Once I had the name … Continue reading
