History was my favorite subject as a young kid. But it always puzzled me when my teachers said, “We study history so that we don’t repeat...

  While browsing through the stacks at the local library, I came across Science Matters, a book by two evolutionary naturalists.¹ Chapter...

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Many reporters and scientists treat carbon dates like facts. Of course, the more recent dates work well enough. But news reports, textbooks, and even...

About a dozen basic marsupial kinds live across Australia and New Guinea, with a handful in South America. How did they get isolated to those locations?...