Land O’ Lakes (10/21/2014)
Last month, a multinational team of scientists announced that they had determined the number and volume of the world’s many lakes for the first time ever. After analyzing reams of …
Happy Birthday, Italo Calvino (10/15/2014)
I just learned that the late, great Italo Calvino was born on this day in 1923. The legendary fabulist wrote some of the most creative books of the twentieth century, including Invisible Cities and If …
Water, Water Everywhere (10/10/2014)
A single interconnected ocean covers more than 70% of our home planet, and yet we have still never satisfactorily explained where all of this water actually came from. Hypotheses abound, but concrete evidence …