Three-year-olds are always asking why questions. Why? Why? Why? As they grow up, they want to know; they want complete, coherent answers. At our age, we’ve been trained not to ask why questions—or we’ve forgotten how to ask them. At our age, we've...
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are increasing. Do we want polluted cities and tropical rain forests? Or fresh air, vibrant forests, and livable cities? Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect As we have seen in examining the burning of stars and in viewing...
How is Earth’s Atmosphere faring nowadays? Is it our breath of life or our wheeze of death? Via satellites and planes, we explore the atmosphere. In essence, it’s part of our daily lives; there is little that we do in which the atmosphere, with the carbon...
Nuclear power has become one of the major controversies of the 21st century—clean, cheap power versus dangerous waste and possible accidents. The issues are many, and the stakes are high. “Imagine the unimaginable.” Galacti intones the phrase. We stand on...
Mankind sits at the pinnacle of the life chain with his imaginative mind and his fragility. What a paradox. Yet he rules over his small part of the cosmos. Why? In this first tome of The Explanation, we’ve quickly surveyed our entire universe, including mankind. With...