The Universe abhors a vacuum. Also a leaf blower. Sometimes a broom. The Universe loves the rug folded on the ottoman. And a ...

Billie’s not keen on having a gecko in the house—even less so after we discover two in different rooms the next day—but ...

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THE FIRST SOUND IN the universe is joylessly underwhelming: white noise boring through the taffy-stretch of nascent space. The big bang is not a bang but a droning robotic purr, galaxies expanding ...

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ONCE, WHEN I WAS very young, I discovered a lizard egg beneath a woodpile in the carport behind our rental house. In my memory it was summer, but isn’t it always summer in Central Florida? I was ...

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Blue Hyacinth, 1939, oil painting, 55.5 x 47 cm, private collection. Photo courtesy of Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Aaltonen, © ToveJansson Estate. Jansson ...

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ONCE, I FOUND ONE buried by borrowing the umwelt of another mammal, a squirrel whose snout evolved to take in waft of oils under soil, smells that stream into intricate fins of bone and layers of ...