Defining Trait

We used to think it was our ability to use tools or the elegance of our reasoning or the architecture of opposable thumbs or brain size.
Maybe we need a new criteria to define our intelligence and what makes it distinct from other species on our planet.

T.T.O.T.T.

T.T.O.T.T. As we get older, more words elusively slip the tip of the tongue.

Give A Call Next Time

Was Earth visited by aliens who ignored us?

REPLAYING REGRETS

REPLAYING REGRETS My biggest mistakes, that caused most harm to others, were all dumb blunders. We can call it the Well-Intentioned Principle, if you like.

In The Rough

All diamonds just dull compressed carbon chunks, until we catch their brilliance.

Tidally Blocked

Recently, we’ve learned that Pluto is a double (dwarf) planet in combination with its mutually tidally locked partner, Charon (pronounced Karen). No matter which “dwarf” you are on, the same side of the other will always face you. Charon cannot see Pluto’s heart, which is on Pluto’s “dark side,” relative to its view. Now called […]

Sharper Cosmos

Earendel, “Morning Star” who twinkled bright within six million years of Cosmic Birth – the eldest star we can see in the night for now, with current optics, near the Earth – though Hubble can resolve you as a star we have a mirrored honeycomb in place that corrects for the light stretched to IR. […]