The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
Virtually all seismologists agree that there’s no known correlation—positive or negative—between the timing of small quakes and large ones.
Rebecca Skloot • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
But cosmology, the study and interpretation of the universe, has always depended on a star-choked dark sky. Ancient civilizations from the Greeks to the Pawnee looked to the stars and saw not only creation tales but active participants in their lives. Christians, who invest great meaning in the good of light and the evil of darkness, spread a starr
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As scientists and engineers repeat almost like a rosary: earthquakes don’t kill people; buildings kill people.
Rebecca Skloot • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
Roughly 400 million of India’s 1.2 billion inhabitants lack access to electricity—more than the combined populations of the United States and Canada.