Year: 2009

“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit from our parents, and we cherish the idea o...

“”How many people have ever lived?” The numbers in this piece are highly speculative but are as accurate as modern science allows. It’s ...

“It happens only once in a blue moon — and scientists say a blue moon is exactly what we’ll see in the skies this New Year’s Eve. Don...

From the New York times: “ Mr. Peek was not autistic — not all savants are autistic and not all autistics are savants — but he was born with severe brain ...

I’m all about reading Top 10 of “this” lists and this is a good one from WORLD: WORLD Magazine | Top 10 stories | The Editors | Dec 29, 09.