Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
Frank Shorter
I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility... →
Trombone Shorty
Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and... →
Seth Shostak
Ever since the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the feds had insisted that TV game shows be honest - or that at least they didn't cheat.... →
Clearly, enriching the cosmos with heavy elements takes a while. So there's inevitably an interval between the sterile aftermath of the Big Bang... →
Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time... →
Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he... →
Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only... →
I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I... →
I still remember my dismay in the summer of 2007 when - for the first time in the history of planet Earth - America's share of auto production... →