What makes most scientists most excited is the same thing that—if they’ve heard about it—makes many non-scientists wonder if scientists are nuts: Way more than half of “the stuff the universe is made of” is still a mystery to scientists. Which may strike you as a crazy thing to realize, and a crazy thing to say. […]
Butchers, bakers and donutmakers probably won’t forsee all that much trouble in cutting something in half. If you’re a philosopher on the other hand . . . Problems arise when trying (to imagine) the process of cutting something exactly in half. Given that most objects could be said to have a centre point of some […]
Have you half hours that you know would be best spent in company lower than that with which you pretend to be accustomed? Consider, then, spending some of those half hours with lower animals. This book tells one man’s own such story: Half Hours with the Lower Animals: Protozoans, Sponges, Corals, Shells, Insects, and Crustaceans, […]