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You can learn a lot about a society by what its people eat. And, for that matter, who cooks the food for that society. That is among the threads of…
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It's often said of poetry that there's a kind of music to it. You'll get no disagreement there from Stephen Rodgers. He's a professor of music theory and…
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Maybe you do not relish the idea of all those other living things in you and on you, yet there they are. As as we've come to understand the…
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There are still people who spend their summers on mountaintop perches, scanning the horizon for wildfires. But lookouts staffed by live humans have…
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Anybody who watches a fair amount of sports is used to the concept of concussion. It's bad enough when adults get their brains rattled; it can derail a…
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It only takes a small difference in temperature for what might have been snow to fall instead as rain. Subtle changes in many realms add up to big ones as…
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We've been hearing for a while now about the importance of the microbiome within each of us, the collection of bacteria and other living things inside us…
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We give credit to the British for a wicked sense of satire. But maybe the credit really should go to their Anglo-Saxon forebears. We'll be sure to ask…
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The history of science--for that matter the history of knowledge--begins with curiousity. It's what drives people to ask questions like "how do birds…
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It's astonishing to look at maps from hundreds of years ago and realize just how accurate some of them are, despite their creators possessing very…