Barry Evans

The Old ‘Rope around the Equator” Puzzle You tie a rope tightly around the Earth’s equator then add three feet to its length and raise it evenly as high as possible. Can a cat now get under the rope?

Columnist Barry Evans remembers some vintage automobiles that were in his life.

“[On early Earth] you need to have gone from simple to complex chemistry before jumping to biology, but we don’t know all the steps. Titan allows us to uncover some of them.”— Zibi Turtle, Dragonfly principal investigator “A bizarre Earth” is how one investigator describes icy Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and the target of NASA’s most […]

Based on some feedback, I will continue to discuss cars that I have had. I mentioned that we bought our first new car, which was a 1959 Rambler American with a Continental tire kit on the back.

A few days ago, a friend of ours and I were doing some bantering about different matters.

Columnist Barry Evans looks back on fond memories of being a city manager in different towns.

Every year, we see in the news and elsewhere information on the latest cost-of-living change. Comments follow that it is only 2% or 2.5%, which isn’t bad — or so say the experts.

“The Hopi language is seen to contain no words, grammatical forms, construction or expressions that refer directly to what we call ‘time,’ or to past, present or future.”— Benjamin Lee Whorf Early in this column’s existence, I took a rather superficial look at what’s come to be known as the Whorf Hypothesis (“The Whorf Hypothesis,” […]

Columnist Barry Evans recalls the downsizing that forced his wife to bid goodbye to a beloved dining room table.

“The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis says that if you immerse yourself in another language, you can rewire your brain.” — Jeremy Renner’s character in Arrival Last week, I discussed the strong and weak versions of the Whorf Hypothesis. The former claims that one’s native language determines our worldview, to the point where we’re unable to think thoughts not […]