The heat does not exist in the seed. It is created on demand when the cell structure is broken and water is present, and it is unstable from the moment…
The hard part of a clock was never the gears. It was finding something that does the same thing over and over at exactly the same rate, and then extracting…
Almost everything about how a book feels - whether it stays open, how it turns, how heavy it is for its size - was decided during manufacture rather than design.…
There is a useful test for whether an ability is special: look at what the nearest relatives can do.
For most human capabilities, the answer is that they do something…
There is a way of thinking about disturbance that treats it as damage — something that happens to an ecosystem and that the ecosystem then recovers from.
That framing works…
There is a common experience in a large domed building, which is standing underneath and being unable to work out what is holding it up.
That reaction is appropriate. A…