Back in Podunk after 10 days on an archaeological tour of Sicily, I come bearing jet lag and anecdotes. My fellow travelers were a half dozen Americans and a dozen Brits, all of a certain age. We were doctors, lawyers, … Continue reading
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Once, the question of whether there were advanced civilizations on other planets came up in the presence of the great physicist Enrico Fermi. He immediately uttered a famous quip that became known as the Fermi paradox: “Where is everybody?” He … Continue reading
Back when Edward R. Murrow ruled the airwaves, one of his catchy features from 1951 to 1955 was “This I Believe,” a brief essay by the famous and not so on the principles that informed their lives. In the last … Continue reading