by Jamie Henzy — Sci­en­tists at one time shared the ti­tle of "nat­ural philoso­phers", and largely spoke the same lan­guage. As their tech­niques grew in so­phis­ti­ca­tion, they set as their goal noth­ing less than the build­ing of a gi­ant tower of Knowl­edge of all Na­ture. When God saw this bla­tant dis­play of hubris, she struck their tongues so that their speech could no longer be un­der­stood to one an­other, and they scat­tered far and wide...