Toby Henderson

When you learn something new for the first time you flail miserably at it, but eventually you identify your weaknesses and over time the process toward solution becomes almost instinctual. Things get better and easier, and somehow you’ve developed into this whole new person who could do the hard things you once dreaded, now effortlessly. I find... See more

Astronomers have been convinced for decades that the comets were born during the earliest days of the solar system, in the icy darkness around Neptune and beyond. Now, however, there’s a new theory, which was just published in the latest issue of Science. Some of our solar system’s comets were not in fact born here, the research suggests. Rather,... See more

the sun and the rest of the solar system weren’t born alone, but instead as part of a litter

I shall be very grateful to you if you help me to weed out bad grammar but I do not think I would like my longish sentences clipped too close, or those drawbridges lowered which I have taken such pains to lift. In other words, I would like to discriminate between awkward construction (which is bad) and a certain special— how shall I put it—... See more

Feynman said that the first rule of science is that you do not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. It is uniquely easy to lie to yourself because there is no external force keeping you honest;