As 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first use of the telescope and the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, the New Scientist asked a bunch of thinkers to decide who was more important.
One showed us that we inhabit a tiny speck orbiting a tiny speck, all but lost among billions of specks in a galaxy (says philosopher Daniel Dennett). The other struck at the root of what it means to be human (says physicist Paul Davies).
This blog adds: one became the subject of a great play, the other didn't.
‘Flamin’ cockatoos’ have lost much of their habitat to bushfires. Can the
species survive?
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Two fires in 12 years wiped out all but a handful of the mature native
pines in Victoria’s Wyperfeld national park, a key breeding ground for
endangered ...
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