When you hear the snarky retort, “OK, Boomer,” you know to look for someone with gray hair as the target. Although demographers wrangle over the exact start and end dates, they generally agree that a Baby Boomer is someone born between 1946 and 1964, bracketed by the end of WWII and the signing of the Civil…

You probably saw recent news coverage of the debris from a Chinese Long March 5B rocket reentering the atmosphere. At this point, exact details are scarce, but Chinese state media reported that it landed harmlessly in the ocean, some distance west of the Maldives. An official statement from US Space Command confirmed the reentry, but…

In 1758, Swedish physician and father of modern taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus, named the species to which we all belong Homo sapiens. Since then, other taxonomists have suggested there isn’t sufficient difference between the genera Homo and Pan (the genus of the chimpanzee and bonobo), arguing that we should really be called Pan sapiens. Under either…