“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” -Albert Einstein Back when I was a kid there was a source of psychological trauma that kids generally don’t have today, and they should be thankful for that: the specter of nuclear…

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Let’s take a look at Saturn. I mean literally, let’s take a look at Saturn. See that ring? Beautiful, isn’t it? What most people don’t realize about Saturn’s rings are that they are composed of billions of tiny little particles all held in a perfect dance between gravity and momentum, maintaining their fragile design despite…

As we bumbled out of Africa, we brought language with us. A funny thing happened along the way: languages started using fewer sounds. The complexity of inner lives didn’t become any simpler, and the challenges we faced didn’t get any easier. But we dropped some phonemes and made some alterations, and by the time we…

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