Science, Natural History
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Fermi's Paradox
And How Intelligent Life Arose On Earth
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One day in 1950, in the midst of lunch with colleagues, Italian/American physicist Enrico Fermi suddenly asked, “Where is everybody?” Fermi wasn’t referring to the lunch crowd. What Fermi was pondering was why—with so many Sun-like stars in our...
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Hawk Moths of Jamaica
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Jamaica was initially one of a few locations in the New World where early collections of hawk moths were made by visiting naturalists including Sir Hans Sloane, Philip Gosse, and natural history illustrator Luke Robins. From this material several...
