A heroine in Tarantino's Curdled was so eager to know whether a human head will be able to speak after it is cut that she couldn't rest until she found out for herself. Is it a true axiom that says a human body cannot live without brain?
With billions of planets capable of supporting intelligent life, why no visits to earth? This is "The Fermi Paradox." Any civilization, with modest rocket tech & immodest funds, could rapidly colonize the Milky Way...
A wave is a disturbance. It is an interruption of space. So everything is just perfect until you get an idea that competes with the pre-existing emptiness for your attention. And this disturbance propagates through space, often transferring energy.
"Do the clouds make rain? Or is it the rain that makes the clouds? What makes it descend so copiously? Who is it that has the leisure to devote himself, with such abandoned glee, to making these things happen?"
Spring in the Arctic now arrives about two weeks earlier than a decade ago because the snow is melting earlier, say researchers. On average, these signs of spring were happening 14.5 days earlier in 2005 than in 1996 (30 days for the wolf spider & some sp
New York was cold and bright in a way that made the gases waltz in the sunlight as they escaped the sewers. I was lunching alone in a SoHo cafe. That might sound romantic, but New York always finds a way to drain the romance out of a moment: a rude str