World's Most Accurate Clock Still Imperfect

Years ago, the world's most complicated clock was displayed for the first time in the town hall in Copenhagen, Denmark. It took 40 years and a million ...

London Zoo Displays Humans

In the summer of 2005, the London Zoo posted a sign in front of their newest exhibit, reading, "Warning: Humans in Their Natural Environment." ...

Influential Scientist Believes World Is an Idiot's Tale

Scientist and skeptic Richard Dawkins, in his book River Out of Eden, explains: "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect ...

Humans Were Created to Be Someone

Talking about the way Christians view the world, Roman Catholic theologian George Weigel said: “We are not congealed stardust, an accidental byproduct ...

"Joe vs. the Volcano": Living in Amazement

"My father says almost the whole world's asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says only a few people are ...

Einstein Found the World Comprehensible

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

—Albert Einstein, (1879-1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate ...

Human Life Is a Statistical Improbability

In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson marvels at what makes up human life:

No one really knows, but there may be as many as a million types ...

George Washington Carver and the Peanut

"God's little workshop" was the name George Washington Carver gave to his laboratory. According to his own account, it was there the famous ...

Stradivari's Skill Is a Mystery

Perhaps the greatest of all Stradivarius mysteries is why no modern violinmaker has been able to replicate Stradivari's work. The violins of Stradivari's ...

A Scientific Account of Creation

Only God knows precisely what happened at the moment of creation, but physicists are beginning to get a clearer picture, as described by writer Bill Bryson: ...