What makes a being sentient? It’s an incredibly tricky question, one that has vexed philosophers (and science-fiction writers) for generations. And before Alien: Earth, it’s a question raised mainly ...

Attentive Sun readers may wonder, at first glance, whether today’s Poem of the Day is a rerun. Last November, in fact, we did run a poem entitled “Telling the Bees,” written around 1900 by Lizette ...