When it’s someone’s birthday it is nice to give presents, or a flower. Perhaps a whole boquet of roses. But if the birthday is a really big round number, like 300, and the birthday boy is the one who ...
Last spring I traveled with my husband, Peter, to Uppsala, an ancient city northwest of Stockholm on the gulf of Ekoln, one of the vast, inland-reaching bays of Sweden’s Lake Mälaren. Known for its ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I originally published this post on May 23, ...