
The Needy Porcupine
Philip and Phylis Morrison explore the salty chemistry and nutrition of sodium and potassium

The Needy Porcupine
Philip and Phylis Morrison explore the salty chemistry and nutrition of sodium and potassium

The Big Bang: Wit or Wisdom?
Philip and Phylis Morrison review the way the universe came into existence and how it continues to evolve.

Information Technology, 2500 B.C.
Philip and Phylis Morrison ponder the daily lives of those who first developed the written word some five millennia back.

Gleaning Nuggets
Philip and Phylis Morrison offer their perspective on the enduring nobility of native metals

Anniversary of Needles
Philip and Phylis Morrison celebrate 400 years of magnetic understanding

Hybrid Vigor!
Philip and Phylis Morrison go for a ride in a practical car that guzzles less gasoline

From Prototools to Language
Technology is by no means a recent invention. Philip & Phylis Morrison trace its origins back through our prehistoric ancestry

Laws of Calorie Counting
What is the bottom line on the energy we take in? Philip & Phylis Morrison recount the heroic, decade-long effort to find out

Time Exposures
All photography needs time to collect an image, muse Philip & Phylis Morrison, and over very long times, nearly invisible marvels can appear

The Internet as Hardware
Philip & Phylis Morrison take a cyber-pinging journey among Web sites near and far

Netting the Deep Sky
Philip & Phylis Morrison explain how astronomers fix the stars with amazingly fine accuracy, using units from the Babylonians

The Lion Emperors
Once Los Angeles was a match for the present plains of the Serengeti, declare Philip & Phylis Morrison

Sun-Stains

Time Travelers in the Field

Roll Back Malaria

Books, January 1982
A Christmas survey of books about science for children young and old