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Twenty-five years have now passed since September 11, 2001, that infamous day on which terrorists crashed two large jetliners into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and another jetliner into the Pentagon (headquarters of the U.S.

In a blogpost I posted earlier this year, I examined the claim that shared patterns of laughter among humans and great apes was a clue to the origin of human language.

As a child, one of my favorite television shows was the science fiction series Star Trek (the original series), which I have written about previously.

The late Stephen Hawking (1942-2018), the British cosmographer and theoretical physicist, was arguably the most famous scientist in the world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

For many years, evolutionary biologists have struggled to explain how the human capacity for language could have evolved, given that every other species--including our supposed evolutionary relatives the great apes--lack this ability.

Today (July 4) is Independence Day in the United States, commemorating the day on which the Continental Congress finally approved the Declaration of Independence, announcing to the world that the former thirteen British colonies in North America were now…

Today (June 19) is Juneteenth, a holiday in the United States commemorating the date in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in the state of Texas learned they were free.

Recently, there has been a lot of interest in the topic of UFOs (unidentified flying objects) in the United States.

The fantasy trilogy The Lord of the Rings (LOTR), written by J.R.R.

A few weeks ago, I was listening to a Classical Breakdown podcast on the tone poem Also Sprach Zarathstra, by the German composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949).

One strategy used to demonstrate that humans are merely highly evolved animals is to point to certain abilities or characteristics that were once thought as being unique to humans but are actually possessed by non-human species as well.