The choice of a collimator sight, for a smooth barrel
Most of those who had the opportunity to test collimator sights on smooth-bore 12-gauge rifles …
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How Kilauea’s Lava Invades Neighborhoods
Once again Kilauea volcano’s lava has intruded into human territory in Hawaii. Scientists are trying …
The Clips Camera Just Might Be the Weirdest Product Ever
The Clips’s heart is in the right place. It solves some real problems for its …
Sniffing and Peeking at Mars
Although it arrived at Mars back in October 2016, the ESA/Roscosmos mission called ExoMars Trace …
Eberth and Evans’s Hadrosaurs, a Book Review, Part 1
Surely the best known of (non-bird) dinosaurs are the hadrosaurs or hadrosaurids, that Cretaceous, mostly …
Global Tourism Has a Bigger Share of Carbon Emissions Than Thought
International tourism accounts for 8 percent of all carbon emissions worldwide-about three times more than …
Eberth and Evans’s Hadrosaurs, a Book Review, Part 2
Several of the book’s contributions on palaeobiology are especially interesting. W. Scott Persons and Philip …
The Metonymy of Matrices
I was enchanted with the words metonymy and synecdoche when I learned them in a …
Darwin, the Galápagos and the Evolution of Basalt
That whole biological evolution thing that Charles Darwin figured out quite often makes people ignore …
A Super-Simple, Non-Quantum Theory of Eternal Consciousness
Which is more fundamental, mind or matter? You would think, in our ultra-materialistic era, that …
U.S. Cities Lose Tree Cover Just When They Need It Most
Scientific evidence that trees and green spaces are crucial to the well-being of people in …
Rethinking the Narrative of Diversity in Science
Esteban Burchard is Latino. He grew up in poverty, raised by a single mother, and …