“That we are the only part of the cosmos possessing what we are pleased to call mind is so earth-centred a supposition, that it recalls the other earth-centred view once so devoutly held, that our little globe was the point about which the whole company of heaven was good enough to turn. Indeed, there...
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Oh, come on. This is officially insane. Honestly, it is. This time they have gone too far. They are flaunting it, shoving our noses in the shards of our broken toys, heaving back their heads in gales of laughter. It’s as if they told the children of the world that there’s no Santa, and...
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When I was in ninth grade, Miss Axton gave us a project. We were to build a replica of an ancient structure, and write a paper about it — why the structure was important, what it was used for, how it impacted culture, blah blah blah. For mine, I decided to do the Parthenon,...
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At first there were just a few in southern California. Within a few days they were appearing in New York and Texas. By the beginning of last week, it was nationwide, rapidly spreading to other countries. Now, less than a fortnight since the initial outbreak, it has spread to every corner of the Earth,...
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“Aren’t you nervous?” “Nope.” -Manhattan Project physicists Isidor Rabi and Kenneth Greisen, lying on the ground one minute before the first atomic bomb test, July 1945 “Now I’m scared.” -Greisen, as the countdown hit 10 seconds On the day of the The Trinity Test, Enrico Fermi offered a bet to any takers. Would the...
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The Summer Olympics! A time when the finest athletes in the world can come together, run around, throw things, have their fluid specimens tested, and insist that yes, they’ve totally heard of Bahrain and can find it on a map. With the Games of the XXIX Olympiad just hours away, we here at AN...
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