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In this excerpt from "The Breath of the Gods, Simon Winchester explores how the Sumerians first named the wind and shaped our early understanding of the natural world.
Aaron Hurst — founder and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Connection — offers a bold new vision for community service.
Weird-looking galaxies, with tentacle-like tails or prominent dual streams, appear like jellyfish or bunny ears. But that’s just the start.
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“Progress happens when we choose to make it happen. It happens through choice and effort. And ultimately, to make progress happen, we have to believe in it.”
When a word comes to mean everything, it means nothing.
In a world of fast answers, leadership shaped by suffering is radical — and transformative.
For over 10 billion years, the cosmic star-formation rate has been dropping and dropping. Someday, the final star in the Universe will die.