A Man in Crisis
When young, I was in a student dorm room where I shared a room with a science major student. The room had two beds that faced each other and placed against two of the walls.…
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Terra Preta: Wisdom From Ancient Amazon
Terra Preta literally “black soil”: in Portuguese is a type of very dark, fertile artificial (anthropogenic) soil found in the Amazon Basin. It is also known as “Amazonian dark earth” … Wikipedia What makes Terra…
Cosmic Life in Shooting Stars
Shooting stars …messengers of good luck or harbingers of life as yet undiscovered? It is an unwritten rule of science that extraterrestrial life cannot exist in space near earth. Even if such life exists, it…
Coastlines are Strange …
Many years ago, while driving a car along one of our coastlines, I was absorbed by the “natural” curves of the land. The beauty of the scenery combined as it was with a blue sky,…
We Never Stop Moving
Intuitively, we feel we do not move at all when we sit still without a blink in our quiet room at home. Scientifically, however, we are moving constantly even if we do not actively do…