For most of modern history, the story we told about Neanderthals was simple: they were the other guys. Primitive. Separate. Eventually gone, replaced by us Homo sapiens, the smarter, more adaptable species that won the evolutionary race. A cave in... Continue Reading →
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Sunday’s passing of President Jimmy Carter: “President Carter was the pinnacle of a public servant, dedicating his life to making our world a better place. He showed us each and every... Continue Reading →
Today marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Below is a transcript of his celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. "I have a dream that one day on the... Continue Reading →
Stephen was born in Oxford on 8 January 1942, the three hundredth anniversary of the death of Galileo Galilei. His father, Frank Hawking, came from a family of tenant farmers in Yorkshire who suffered hard times during the agricultural depression at... Continue Reading →
Probably the most significent contribution that Galileo Galilei made to science was the discovery of the four satellites around Jupiter that are now named in his honor. Galileo first observed the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610 through a... Continue Reading →
Jacob Bernoulli (6 January 1655 - 16 August 1705) was a Swiss mathematician who was the first to use the term integral. He studied the catenary, the curve of a suspended string. He was an early user of polar coordinates and... Continue Reading →
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds... Continue Reading →
Legend has it that Isaac Newton formulated gravitational theory in 1665 or 1666 after watching an apple fall and asking why the apple fell straight down, rather than sideways or even upward. "He showed that the force that makes the apple fall... Continue Reading →
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892– September 2, 1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specializing in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number... Continue Reading →
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