Science – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were

Drilling toward the Mantle: Project Mohole and the Politics of Inner Space, 1957–1966

Matthew McIntosh — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:16:38 +0000

Project Mohole aimed to reach Earth’s mantle. Its cancellation in 1966 exposed disputes over scientific priorities, even as

Matthew McIntosh — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:36:54 +0000

Changing compass readings led Edmond Halley to propose worlds inside Earth. Astronomy helped make them conceivable, but their

Matthew McIntosh — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:34:43 +0000

Understanding how diseases develop, progress, and respond to treatment is one of the greatest challenges in modern medicine.

Matthew McIntosh — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:07:03 +0000

From fairy tales to the water cycle, the Perrault brothers challenged classical authority. Their careers reveal how royal

Matthew McIntosh — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:43:09 +0000

Our body has three types of muscles, including skeletal muscles, cardiac muscles, and smooth muscle. Each type has

Matthew McIntosh — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:51:02 +0000

From Halley’s mapped shadow in 1715 to the 1919 test of general relativity, total solar eclipses helped reveal

Matthew McIntosh — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:21:14 +0000

Thales and Anaxagoras to Hipparchus, the Antikythera Mechanism, and Ptolemy, Greek thinkers made eclipses problems of cause, geometry,

Matthew McIntosh — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:22:27 +0000

The International Center for Consciousness Studies unites conceptual analysis with empirical research as Dmitry Volkov and collaborators pursue

Matthew McIntosh — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:47:22 +0000

For centuries, philosophers, scientists and theologians have wrestled with one of humanity’s oldest questions: what exactly makes us

Matthew McIntosh — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:02:00 +0000

The abacus turned calculation into a visible, tactile practice, helping ancient and modern users organize number beyond memory