On the flat top of a steep hill in a distant corner of northern Japan lies the tomb of an itinerant shepherd who, two millennia ago, settled down there to grow garlic. He fell in love with a farmer’s daughter
When there is no noise in my room it scares me”, emails one of my undergraduate students. “It seems I can’t stand silence”, writes another. The noise the first student is referring to is the background noise of television, radio
Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM) of food involves the laboratory process of artificially inserting genes into the DNA of food crops or animals. The result is called a genetically modified organism or GMO. GMOs can be engineered with
Ancient artifacts resembling the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient bronze clockwork astronomical calculator, may rest amid the larger-than-expected Roman shipwreck that yielded the device in 1901. Marine archaeologists report they have uncovered new secrets of an ancient Roman shipwreck famed for
Education does not increase your intelligence. It’s the other way around. A subcategory of the last common misconception about intelligence (“Genes don’t determine intelligence, only the environment does”) is that you can becomemore intelligent, by reading more books, attending better schools,
