Where is the Mars of our dreams, our imaginings—the dusty red planet laced by canals, and home of ancient civilizations?…
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True Mars
Category: May/June 2012 – #93
The Cranial Deformation Mystery
Many of you may remember the old Saturday Night Live routine with Dan Akroyd and gang as the strange family…
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The Bloody Politics of Archaeology
The past is the past, and perhaps it is a truism that we can never know the past with absolute…
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Dying Words
At the October 16, 2011, memorial service for Apple founder Steve Jobs, Mona Simpson, his sister, delivered a eulogy in…
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Dehumanizing
Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor who endured the horrors of Auschwitz, astutely commented on the way that modern European thought…
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Return of the Crystal Skulls
In 1996, a prominent Argentine anthropologist traveling through China acquired a most remarkable object. Carved from opaque crystal, it is…
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Searching for the Higgs
Recently there has been a lot of buzz in the scientific community about scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider…
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Doomsday Prospects for 2012
In January 2012, I was in South India giving lectures at technical institutes and universities in and around the city…
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From Whirlpools to Gyres: The Promise of Vortex Science
If you personify nature and think about what would be in Mother Nature’s toolbox, you’d see her favorite shape, the…
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The Morality of Materialism
Anyone who doubts the persistence of old-fashioned, reductionist materialism at the heart of politically correct thinking these days, need look…
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