Barry Evans

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 […]

Columnist Barry Evans reflects on some big days in his life - including his 70th anniversary.

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,” […]