“God created science as well.”
There was balm in Gilead, but what was it exactly?
Radiocarbon dating and Hezekiah’s wall.
The cacao trees that became “superheroes.”
The nuclear physicist’s belated bar mitzvah.
Starting with the rabbi who studied with Galileo.
The astrolabe of Verona.
Albert and Mary Lasker.
The Old Testament and the New Atlantis.
The physicist wasn’t the target of an anti-Semitic McCarthyite witch hunt.
Remembering Owen Gingerich.
Rudolphina Menzel’s dogs of war—and of peace.
Ancient military conquests provide the perfect source material.
The seeds are part of a project titled “space hummus,” which aims to test hydroponic techniques for plant growth in zero gravity.