This dog does not exist Last week Robert Krulwich, a co-host of the wonderful program Radiolab , Pluto’d pink. In a blog post he noted that pink doesn’t occupy a slot in the familiar colors of the rainbow there’s no P in Roy G. Biv .
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As long as humans have been forming gold into precious objects, goldsmiths have struggled to offset the metal’s softness. Traditionally, this issue has been addressed by alloying gold with other metals like silver, copper, and palladium (the percentages of which yield the familiar karat system for grading gold purity).
Read More »Hublot’s Gold Invention
As long as humans have been forming gold into precious objects, goldsmiths have struggled to offset the metal’s softness. Traditionally, this issue has been addressed by alloying gold with other metals like silver, copper, and palladium (the percentages of which yield the familiar karat system for grading gold purity). However, ...
Read More »Evolution Abroad: Creationism Evolves in Science Classrooms around the Globe
As the familiar battles over evolution education continue to play out in U.S. state legislatures and school boards, other countries are facing very different dynamics. Much of the world lives outside of any law that requires separation of church and state, making creationism trickier to disentangle from public school curricula.
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