Humor is everywhere, in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.

Our world is driven by our remarkable ability to carefully measure and divide units of time. In a reasonable sense, the invention of clocks has had a greater effect on our lives than the invention...

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk

The(re is no) End

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly...

Everyone that you’ll ever met wil know someone that you won’t

People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who...

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.

…I suspect everyone there can reason along the lines I described…It’s just that when it comes to evolution, and especially to the related realization that we are all pretty small bits of the universe, it...

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel...