2026-08-19
The Day Is Getting Longer by 1.78 Milliseconds a Century. Broken Clay Tablets Are How We Know.
Scribes in Babylon timed eclipses against a water clock and pressed the results into clay. Twenty-seven centuries of such records show the Earth slowing down - and slowing rather less than the tides say it should.
2026-08-15
Why the Night Sky Still Makes Us Feel Small — On Purpose
The same feeling that made this week's Perseid meteors worth stepping outside for has a name in psychology, a measurable effect on behavior, and a much older name in scripture.