The lion, it’s often said, is king of the jungle. Being king, is what lions do best. But like many clichés, it’s more fiction than fact. The lion population of the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania was devastated in 1962 by a plague of biting flies following six months of continuous rain. That year at least, Read more about The Pig That Flew[…]

A friend of mine asked me today what I thought about UFOs and ETs. I hold two seemingly inconsistent thoughts on the subject. One is encapsulated in a typically Feynman comment (primarily regarding religion). I forget the lead up, but the punch line was: ‘And he came to Earth, he came to planet EARTH, mind Read more about Hello worlds![…]