Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that white-tailed deer were nearly extinct about a century ago. While they currently number somewhere in the range of 30 million to 35
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It is not often that cold, hard facts determine what people care most about and what they believe. Instead, it is the power and familiarity[1] of a well-told story that reigns supreme. Whether it’s a heartfelt anecdote, a personal testimony or a meme
How much do you engage with others when you’re out in public? Lots of people don’t actually engage with others much at all. Think of commuters on public transportation staring down at their phones with earbuds firmly in place.
As a professor of social
Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called “the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of[1].” He got his Ph.D. in physics at 21 under Enrico Fermi – a Nobel Prize winner and friend of Einstein’s –
Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust[1], the Moon has once again become a destination of fierce ambition and delicate engineering.
This time, it’s not just superpowers racing to plant flags[2], but also private
Whether diving off docks, cannonballing into lakes or leaping off the high board, there’s nothing quite like the joy of jumping into water.
Olympic divers turned this natural act into a sophisticated science, with the goal of making a splash as small as