Category: Science
Can Myths About Dogs Tell Us About Their Origins?
A French historian studies the relationship between ancient stories told about dogs and information from genetics and archaeology.
Capturing Beauty, Painting Creation
Orcs were made from elves, not the other way around. And that is not my subject here. Beauty comes first.
How Do We Know the Age of the Universe?
A correspondent asked me recently how we know the age of the universe. The answer is calculated from the inverse of the Hubble constant.
Fossil Friday: Sahelanthropus, to Be or Not to Be Bipedal
On the morning of July 19, 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Sahara Desert.
Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?
Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”?