Barry Evans

Will your wife let you eat food beyond the expiration date? Columnist Barry Evans’ wife will not.

The waistcoat-wearing Jabberwock, per John Tenniel’s illustration in Through the Looking Glass, 1871. Credit: Public domain

Columnist Barry Evans warns that driverless bicycles may be coming to a roadway near you.

In my last musing, I wrote about flies among some other things. As a result, my youngest son indicated that you could still buy fly paper and gave the website where you could do so.

In case you were not expecting it, it’s nostalgia time once more. This time it is my grandmother on my mother’s side.

“Lowell always said that the regularity of the [Martian] canals was an unmistakable sign that they were of intelligent origin. The only unresolved question was which side of the telescope the intelligence was on.”— Carl Sagan, Cosmos “Canals on the Planet Mars,” read the headline of The Times of London of April 13, 1882, in […]

In an ironic turn of history, two of Charles Darwin’s most ardent supporters ended up disagreeing with him. The first was Robert FitzRoy, captain of the HMS Beagle and Darwin’s senior by four years, with whom Darwin had a great relationship during the sloop’s 1831-1836 round-the-world voyage of exploration. At the time, both men hewed […]

We have a friend who is a very good writer, and she suggested that I might write about some of the folks who have influenced me.

I thought that I would begin this Muse by reflecting on a long-time problem which sometimes can have some unanticipated effects – and it is all due to manufacturers.

Although I wrote about this topic quite recently (“Why Two Sexes?” Feb. 15, 2024), I’m revisiting it due to increasing interest — and confusion — around gender politics. While one’s gender can be as fluid as our culture is diverse, biological sex isn’t. Eukaryotes like us are born male or female, depending on the size […]