[ … and now here’s Eduardo Galeano with what appears to be some pretty gosh, darn good questions … ] August 13, 2009 I’d like to share with you some questions–some flies that keep buzzing in my head. Is justice right side up? Has world justice been frozen in […]

“Human Universals” is a term used in anthropology and evolutionary psychology to refer to behavioral or cognitive traits common to all neurologically normal humans. The notion of human universals was partially formulated as a challenge to cultural relativism, a predominant view of human nature in the late 20th century, which […]

A Flyby Perspective By Jonathan Mark One of the stranger events that happened near the end of the 20th Century was when NASA conducted two “flybys” around Venus on a journey towards Saturn. A flyby is a maneuver in frictionless space using gravity from a planet for a slingshot-acceleration effect. The […]

You can’t hear it, but the Earth is constantly humming. And some parts of the world sing louder than others. [according to this …]   After discovering the mysterious low-frequency buzz in 1998, scientists figured out that the Earth’s hum is caused not by earthquakes or atmospheric turbulence, but by […]

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