One million hours. That's how long it took to run the calculations for a ground-breaking mathematics discovery. And that wasn't some lone genius typing numbers into his graphing calculator for a million hours: it was a worldwide computer network running calculations for a … [Read more...]
Biodiversity and Protecting the Natural World
An important conversation If you read the news or got on social media in the past couple of months, you probably heard about the fires in the Amazon. Seeing the largest rainforest in the world up in flames was traumatic, and … [Read more...]
Pirates and the Law of the Sea
December 17, 2014, is the day that the longest sea chase in history began. It started in the Shadowlands—a place that isn't actually a place. The name was coined by Peter Hammarstedt, the Swedish-American captain of the Bob Barker, a boat committed to stopping modern-day … [Read more...]
Life in Medieval Times
Medieval times. The Dark Ages. Life after the fall of Rome and before the Renaissance of art and reason. If you believe the pop culture images of that era, Europe was full of peasants and kings, princesses and knights in shining armor who rode the realms protecting the weak. … [Read more...]
What Is Life in Space Like?
source: https://giphy.com/search/nasa In a recent article in the New York Times, US Navy fighter pilots reported unidentified flying objects off the east coast. They even captured them on video. It’s fascinating to contemplate whether these reported UFOs were an advanced alien … [Read more...]
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