Too much comfort is dangerous. Literally Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley did an experiment some time ago that involved introducing an amoeba into a perfectly stress-free environment: ideal temperature, optimal concentration of moisture, constant food supply. The amoeba had an environment to which it had to make no adjustment whatsoever. So you […]
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Why did science blossom when and where it did? And what does this say about the role of faith in science? Ian Hutchinson, professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT, addresses this question at The Veritas Forum at MIT. They are actually compatible. In fact, it was a Christian culture of the West that […]
In December 2006, a woman in New York who received a gift of a large mass of some sort of waxy substance began hoping against hope that it would turn out to be that rare “floating gold” of the sea: whale vomit. Her sister sent her the 4-pound (1.8-kg) glob, found on a beach 50 […]