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I was eight years old, attending a Catholic school in St. Kitts. Though I was not Catholic, my parents believed the school would instill morals. It was run by Belgian nuns—stern, joyless, and often cruel—who made my days miserable. I was a curious child, hungry for knowledge. Yet the school offered no science, and its history was filtered through Vatican dogma. At home, however, my parents had placed The Children’s Book of Knowledge  in our living room—a massive tome, nearly

The Thing in the Sky There is a reason the Milky Way features so prominently in my book and as a symbol for everything I do. To me, it represents not only wonder but also everything that is wrong with the modern world. On January 17th, 1994, a massive earthquake struck Los Angeles, plunging the city into darkness. With the power grid down, the night sky revealed itself in full. The 911 lines were flooded with calls reporting a strange silver streak overhead. Many believed it

A short history of Newfoundland  Hard evidence of early inhabitants of the area of Newfoundland and its surroundings is very sparse, sometimes just a single burial of a few caches of stone tools. We have an idea that there was some habitation for at least 7,000 to 9,000 years. There was a constant list of one group of indigenous inhabitants being replaced by another.  A succession of groups inhabited the region: Paleo-Eskimos, followed by Maritime Archaic Indians, then Dorset