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Metaphors help explain complex or foreign topics, but they have a shelf life.

If there is one thing that makes ocean lovers crazy, it is trash on the beach, and the worst kind is plastic trash.

It is impossible to walk the streets of New York City without smelling the unmistakable aroma of weed.

Rice farming involves a more complex irrigation system and subsequent labor needs than wheat farming. Traditional rice farming ties farmers tightly together in interdependent relationships.

Born in 1842 and home-schooled, but driven by a fierce love of science and nature and not one to be easily deterred, Ellen Henrietta Swallow was the first woman to attend and graduate from MIT ( then called the Institute for Tec

War can be so destructive to lives and infrastructure, and, as it turns out, seeds.

Our retina’s sensory experience of reflected light is almost instantaneously transformed into a perception we call our vision.

 

Lars and I discussed the recent Oscars, notably the win for "Oppenheimer," the biopic about the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bombs during the 1940s.  I shared my connections to the Manhattan Project, in

My children both want homes, but they, like many of their generation, find that this American dream is beyond their reach. Why is housing so expensive?