A Giant Appears At The Edge Of An African Roadway
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View ArticleIs That A Lark I Hear? A Nightingale? Surprise! It's A Bat
Bats produce "pings" or "clicks," right? They make these high-pitched sounds, too high for us to hear, but when their cries ricochet off distant objects, the echoes tell them there's a house over...
View ArticleEverything Dies, Right? But Does Everything Have To Die? Here's A Surprise
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View Article'Murdersquishing' Them To Death: How Little Bees Take On Enormous Hornets
I know, I know. You have Putin to worry about, ISIS to worry about, Britain's near breaking, Washington's broken, and the globe keeps getting warmer — so why bring up Japanese giant hornets? You have...
View ArticleHowling Babies Drove Prehistoric Warriors Into Battle?
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View ArticleMapping What You Cannot See, Cannot Know, Cannot Visit
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View ArticleBuilding Me: A Puzzlement
It's a puzzle — the deepest puzzle I know. The question is: What are we?One answer, from physicist-novelist Alan Lightman, is we are stuff. Just stuff."Let me explain. A highly unpleasant idea, but one...
View ArticleA Giant Appears At The Edge Of An African Roadway
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View ArticleWhen Venus Was Filled With Venusians — 50 Billion Of Them
What a difference 180 years makes.Back in the 1830s, a Scottish minister and amateur astronomer named Thomas Dick tried to calculate the number of intelligent creatures in the universe. He assumed that...
View ArticleIf You're Born In The Sky, What's Your Nationality? An Airplane Puzzler
Here's a puzzle I bet you've never pondered.Imagine you are very, very pregnant. For the purposes of this mind game, you are a married American woman (with an American spouse) and you are about to...
View ArticleWhen Snails Lose Their Way
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View ArticleElemental Storytelling
There's a photograph I know that shows a kid's bicycle lying on its side, one wheel turned upright, a smear of blood tracing its path on the concrete. There's a little package still latched to the...
View ArticleWhat A Balloon Shouldn't Do, But For Some Reason Does
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View ArticleHow To Cross 5 International Borders In 1 Minute Without Sweating
So many nations are breaking up. Ukraine is in pieces. Moldova is teetering. Libya has no government to speak of. Sudan broke in two last year; now both sides are fighting. Yugoslavia is seven...
View ArticleGuess Who's Been Waiting In The Lobby For A Hundred Million Years?
Sometimes the quiet ones surprise us.Take moss — those fuzzy green pads you see on the sides of old trees, or hanging onto rocks. Who notices moss? It's just ... there, doing whatever it does — so...
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