The recurring problem is the same everywhere: sleep appears to be necessary, and being asleep is dangerous. Almost every solution below is a compromise between those two facts. Here are…
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The 1960s and '70s were a golden age of the dance craze, when a new step could sweep the nation and turn up at every party, wedding, and school…
Almost nobody looks at a dark night sky and thinks it requires explanation. It is dark because the sun has set, which seems sufficient.
It is not sufficient, and noticing…
The technical term is an erg. What makes one worth travelling to is usually the dune form - linear, crescent, star or transverse - because the shape records the wind…
What these have in common is exposure. A headland projects into whatever the ocean is doing, which is why the weather on them is rarely the weather a few miles…
Nearly every effect below comes from one of three things: a curved surface that guides sound, a shape that focuses it, or a surface that refuses to reflect it at…