Life

by David Sims THIS contiguous region of spacetime, the universe, appeared from vacuum energy about 13.7 billion years ago. The solar nebula condensed into a central star and a planetary system about 5 billion years ago. Earth’s Life includes cellular organisms, viruses, and viroids. Biogenesis…

IN A DISCOVERY that has been years in the making, researchers have confirmed the existence of a rocky planet named Proxima b orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, according to a new study. It is the closest exoplanet to us in the universe. (ILLUSTRATION: This artist’s impression…

by Thomas Goodrich Note #1 DESPITE ITS Italian-sounding name, Antonino is an old German community. At the close of the 19th century these thrifty, industrious immigrants flocked to the High Plains around Hays, Kansas, and established their own communities. When I lived here in 1970, I still recall…

In order for our civilization — and our very selves — to survive, our race must establish colonies on other worlds, and the window of opportunity for doing so is rapidly closing. by David Price LIFE ON EARTH is driven by energy. Autotrophs take it from solar radiation and heterotrophs take…

An understanding of our race’s plight and position in the universe is not possible without at least a basic understanding of biological evolution. A SURPRISINGLY specific genetic portrait of the ancestor of all living things has been generated by scientists who say that the likeness sheds…

by John Calhoun ONE OF MY favorite activities is hiking in the beautiful mountains of Southern Appalachia. I try to find the most difficult and most remote trails that I can. Being far away from the sound of traffic and the chattering of a rapidly changing racial demographic centers me. Whereas modern…

Selections from Hitler’s Table Talk I THINK THE MAN who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety: not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things. At the end of the last century the progress of science…

Life could have emerged on Earth about 300 million years earlier than previously thought, according to new research. LIVING ORGANISMS could have existed on our planet 4.1 billion years ago: 300 million years earlier than was previously thought, according to scientists. It was a spate of ancient…

by Kevin Alfred Strom (pictured) TODAY I WILL step back from the minutiae of social and political issues, and attempt to answer what are really the ultimate questions. Why should we or anyone else make sacrifices for our nation or our race? Why is it important for our race to survive? What is our basis for…

by Peter Goodchild IN ORDER to be fully human, I occasionally need to put my hands on the green things that grow on the surface of this planet, because those leaves and I are one. My personal loss is proportional to my ability to destroy that unity. “All flesh is grass.” This is the essential…