Tag: Carl Sagan
The Real Reason South Koreans Aren’t Having Babies
On the days she’s feeling most generous toward men—say, when she sees a handsome man on the street—Helena Lee can sometimes put her distaste aside and appreciate them as “eye candy.” That’s as far as she goes: “I do not want to know what is inside of his brain.” Most of the time, she wants nothing at all to do with men.
“I try to have faith in guys and not to be like, ‘Kill all men,’” she says. “But
The Existential Wonder of Space
Of all the moons in the solar system, Saturn’s largest satellite might be the most extraordinary. Titan is enveloped in a thick, hazy atmosphere, and liquid methane rains gently from its sky, tugged downward by a fraction of the gravity we feel on Earth. The methane forms rivers, lakes, and small seas on Titan’s surface. Beneath the frigid ground, composed of ice as hard as rock, is even more liquid, a whole ocean of plain old H2O.
The wildest part
The Things I’m Afraid to Write About
One evening, I sat on the brown-leather couch of a younger man who admired me for my writing, and maybe other things, if the salty text messages were true. He came from a different generation, but I was pleased to discover that he shared many of my unconventional opinions and favorite authors, that taste and perspective weren’t necessarily a matter of the year you were born. Joan Didion, Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens, though I had more reservations about that last
Die Planetary-Defense-Mission der NASA ist auf dem Weg zu einem Asteroiden
Das Letzte, woran man im Moment denken muss, ist ein katastrophaler Asteroideneinschlag.
Und zum Glück müssen die meisten von uns nicht! Die Erde ist nicht unmittelbar von einem Weltraumfelsen bedroht. Die Chance, dass ein bekannter Asteroid, der groß genug ist, um wirklich Schaden anzurichten – oder, wissen Sie, unsere gesamte Existenz zu gefährden – den Planeten in den nächsten 100 Jahren trifft, ist unbedeutend. (Wenn Sie sich Sorgen über das Aussterben machen möchten, denken Sie an das Aussterben, das durch