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Jurassic Park: the classic, original novel which is definitely not for kids By: Michael Crichton I saw Jurassic Park for the first time as a very little girl in a surprisingly large barge of a car (for the 80s anyway) in one of the last drive-in theaters around Memphis. It was storming that night, and I still remember screaming and looking out the back window for raging dinosaurs during the T-Rex’s escape scene. Since then, the dinosaur infatuation only grew and my room as a child was filled with the requisite Barbie dolls . . . who were always eaten [...]

A small universe underfoot... Author:  David George Haskell It’s counterintuitive. The closer you look at any natural space – the smaller the scale – the more there is to talk about. The big picture isn’t as revealing as you might think, frequently hiding all sorts of fascinating minutiae. While I’ll make no claims that such thoughts are particularly profound, it’s easy to miss countless small things as we humans go about our routine, biologically large scale lives. Scientist David George Haskell – armed with his handy magnifying loupe – spent a year trying to correct this bias, exploring a tiny [...]