Oh, those poor Mayans had no idea that European settlers would have no interest in what the locals called their wildlife. The Mayans didn’t actually have a campaign to call the native Mexican bird (known today as the Turkey- Meleagris Gallopavo) ‘the Maya’, but they are thought to have been the first to domesticate it, [...]
If you rewind the tape of evolutionary history and then re-run it*, there are no guarantees things will turn out the same. You can thank healthy doses of random chance for that. Any given branch of life might just not show up. The same idea would apply to rewinding the Betamax of human history; small [...]
This is not the M-Theory you are looking for. The earth is hit with more than a hundred tons of space debris every day. That’s a lot of space garbage flying around. Granted most of it is made up of tiny sand and dust like particles but with a bit of luck you may get [...]