We've been watching the dramatic New Horizons flyby of Pluto over the past few weeks, and many people are saying, "Come on, REALLY. That's a PLANET!"
When a garment factory goes up in flames in Bangladesh, we’re connected to those workers, whether or not we just bought a bargain T-shirt at H&M that was made in Bangladesh. When I lived in France, I was constantly impressed by how well the family I lived with knew where everything ...
Back in 2006, right after the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet, I was buying gasoline at a local station. The female attendant noted my “Pluto is the Coolest Planet” tee shirt, expressed her fierce disapproval of what had transpired with Pluto, and then growled “There will b...
I saw a good t-shirt the other day: it had a picture of Pluto with a sad looking face on it, and said: “Don’t worry Pluto – I’m not a planet either…” But seriously… Look, the term planet is just an arbitrary human classification anyway. In reality, nature is more continuo...