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We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The wareho...more

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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

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Somewhere in the steaming jungles of the Carboniferous Period there emerged an organism that for the first time in the history of the world had more i...more

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a typical chromosomal DNA molecule in a human being is composed of about five billion pairs of nucleotides… But since there are four different kinds o...more

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So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been dis...more