Author: Michael Ambrosio

Enrico Fermi found a paradox: If there’s intelligent life on other planets, why haven’t we heard from them yet? Perhaps the answer is this: Any civilization sufficiently advanced to travel great distances will have to work in...

Even though it’s possible to design an oral thermometer that measures body temperature to a hundredth of a degree, there’s no reason to do so. In fact, 98.6 is overkill. 98 is enough information. More digits don’t give us more...