Skip to content

The Last Word On Nothing

"Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing" - Victor Hugo

  • Home
  • About Us
    • Ann Finkbeiner
    • Betsy Mason
    • Cameron Walker
    • Cassandra Willyard
    • Christie Aschwanden
    • Craig Childs
    • Emily Underwood
    • Eric Wagner
    • Helen Fields
    • Jennifer Holland
    • Jessa Gamble
    • Laura Helmuth
    • Neil Shea
    • Rebecca Boyle
    • Richard Panek
    • Sally Adee
    • Sarah Gilman
  • Books by Us

copepods

Surveying the tree of life, with envy (Or, why can’t a boy be more like a … copepod?)

A few recent experiences in the realm of potty training have me thinking about the shortcomings of the human machine. Evolution, for the most part, has been kind to us. But the intelligent designer was missing in action, apparently, when it came time to assign our powers of excretion and elimination. The fish and birds […]

Read More…

Copyright © 2026 All Rights Reserved.
The writing on this blog belongs to the person who wrote it and should not be re-published without explicit permission of the author. Thank you!

The header images courtesy of the astounding Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/about/ and the equally splendid Biodiversity Heritage Library https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

Decode by Scott Smith

Search

Subjects and Writers

Archives