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...religion needed. Another historical use of alcohol was as a water purifier or other, let's call it, a water substitute. Pre-modern times did not have very safe drinking water, meaning dysentery and other nasty diseases, fatal diseases. People would drink diluted alcohol in place of water. Even children would. In ancient Greece and Rome, wine was always drunk diluted....

...religion, if you will. Maybe it looks obvious now that the craters on the Moon were formed by impact. But in fact, the vast majority of scientists who studied the Moon, astronomers in particular, at the time that I began this work thought that these craters on the Moon were probably formed by volcanoes. That had been the prevailing idea for a century before. The beauty of...