For much of history, western philosophers and storytellers painted fanciful pictures of the people and creatures that dwelled in the antipodes, the imagined lands located on the opposite side of the ...

Greg Kestin: What's going on here? Every time I throw the ball straight, it seems to bend to the side. No matter what I throw, no matter how straight I throw it, the ball seems to be curving. Maybe it ...

This question would seem to be one of simple physics, and yet it continues to engender sharp disagreements. The main problem here is the division between theory and practice: whereas in principle the ...