If it’s an email from someone you’ve never heard of, almost certainly not.

I don’t know, and anyone who says they do is offering a guess, possibly an educated one. Life on an exoplanet a million light years away may well have reached a complex megafauna stage millions of years before Earth. Or not. Maybe it’s turtles all the way down.

It depends on what you mean by discovered – but Nova (PBS) has a handy timeline of air discoveries dating back to Aristotle: bit.ly/AirDiscovery

It is a competitive process, for sure. I wish you all the best, and be sure to follow the guidelines given to you by the BC Pre-Health Program advisors.

Nope. This is me speaking as the collective voice of a great team with hundreds of years of extremely human library experience.

I’m sure you feel a lot better now that you’ve gotten that out of your system.

I’ve thought about this a lot and don’t have an answer for you, but here is one place you might start to look: https://bit.ly/bc-love23. It is also OK to just accept it as the beautiful, confusing mystery that it is. You have your whole life to find different answers to that question.

She might! Time will tell. Or she might tell, if you asked….

History gets written from so many perspectives (economic, social, political) that it’s basically impossible to recommend one thing that will teach you everything. Having said that, here are a couple of suggestions: 1) The Cartoon History of the Universe. https://bit.ly/3rH9w1v 2) The Cambridge World History. https://bit.ly/3QcxQ5w You could also try something like sampling a few 3) Very Short Introductions to History. https://bit.ly/3Dtng2A

Leia Organa

Do your best and don’t worry about the outcome. As with love, there are many possible perfect matches for everyone.

Lyons Hall offers excellent, soundproof practice rooms on the top floor. While the pianos in each room aren’t always perfectly in tune, the space is perfect for solo or small-group practice!

The best lobster rolls are generally found beachside in Maine, but there are lots of good options in Boston. Legal Sea Foods would be a classic choice; I generally prefer Summer Shack. But really, the answer is almost anywhere other than Quincy Market.

So many great choices, but today I’ll say Qin.

In general, YES! Please don’t be uncivil, use defamatory language, or mention private individuals by name. But beyond that, I welcome your questions.

It sometimes seems like the glory days are in the past, but my cuz, The Magic Eight Ball says “Ask again later.”

Who’s Taylor Swift anyway? Ew. (jkjk, if walls could travel to concerts I would’ve been at Gillette every night of the eras tour <3)

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “An adult female human being”and you can find more details and other uses of the word there (bit.ly/BCLOED).

I have, but don’t recommend that as a career path.

The effects are “both strong and subtle” according to a 2020 article by McLachlan-Troup et. al. See: bit.ly/PlatypusFoodWeb for details.