Unlike the Bible, ‘Living Biblically’ Plays It Safe
Despite the provocative concept, the CBS sitcom avoids offense as well as true humor.
Wonder on the Web
Issue 55: Links to amazing stuff.
Editor’s Note from May 26, 2016
Issue 49: The spark of human creation, beauty’s golden number, and beholding the bison.
What Color Is North?
How birds and other animals travel so far so accurately.
Let There Be Light at Every Human’s Creation?
Sadly, no. But biologists have new ways to reveal the unseen.
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
How ants have solved the Traveling Salesman Problem.
Wonder on the Web
Issue 49: Links to amazing stuff.
Pluto’s New Horizons
Facts we learned—and stuff people are wondering about—from the exploration mission so far.
The Miracle of Exponential Growth
For one thing, it would take us 100 billion years to grow up otherwise.
Tolkien’s Epic Wins 11 Overdue Oscars; Passion “Grosses” Greatly
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ties the Oscar record. The Passion of The Christ, a “loser” with critics, is a box office blockbuster. Meanwhile, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights is dirty and dumb, Twisted is torture, Eurotrip is trash, and Clifford’s Big Movie charms the kids.