Science in meter and verse Credit: Joel Sartore National Geographic Photo Ark Advertisement Edited by Dava Sobel In a year of panic, envy any creature who estivates in the heat. Line a cavity with mucus & hunker down. A bunker hardens around you. Watch the river shrivel without worry. In the […]
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Poem: The Warped Side of Our Universe
Edited by Dava Sobel A billion several years in the past
 —while in this article on Earth
 multicelled existence was arising and spreading—
 in a galaxy considerably significantly absent
 two spinning black holes danced ’round one a different,
 rippling the fabric of space and time. The […]
Poem: We Need the Sky
Science in meter and verse Credit: Getty Images Advertisement Edited by Dava Sobel That we need the sky to tell us we don’t matter is why, before totality, we are so giddy and akimbo. In its random masking, how shall the Sun disclose its other light? (We’ve not seen before.) […]
Poem: Bring Back the Leaf
Edited by Dava Sobel They sent out a dove: it wobbled residence, wings slicked in a rainbow of oil, a sprig of tinsel snagged in its beak, a yard of fishing-line binding its ft. Carry again, provide again the leaf. They sent out an arctic fox: it plodded the bays […]