From the department of little-known facts...

You can't solve a problem until you admit you have one...

I used to think of Oxfam as a charitable organization engaged primarily in laudable work to alleviate global poverty....

Free expression or chaos--a grim choice....

We need to think a little harder about what it means to honor...

Don't go for the nightlife....

Do politicians lie? They're supposed to...

Avoiding the obvious...

There is more to this than meets the eye....

Believe it or not, it isn't always about the money. Not by a long shot....

Mass insanity is real. We've been reminded....

Architecture is about light and space. Frank Lloyd Wright also worked with time....

Can capitalism have too much capital?...

The most disturbing thing about the National Science Foundation's announcement this week, that they will tear down the famous radio observatory at Arecibo, is that it didn't come as a surprise....

Since I can't travel this fall, at least not for pleasure, I'm going to revisit here one of my favorite spots in the American Southwest....

It's always a little exhilarating to encounter a bit of really impressive technology that is not reserved to multi-billion dollar corporations, armies of faceless engineers, and hair-trigger legal departments. Yeah, I get collaboration, I get intellectual property rights, I get EBIDTA. But we need a break from it once...

A working bit of science history dodged a bullet last month....

It is one of the most bleak and forbidding places imaginable, surfaces of rock relieved only by the cracks and thrusts of ancient tectonic forces. ...

Fifty two years ago, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Kennedy’s reputation has not worn well over the years. Personally, I think the reason is that he had the wrong reputation to begin with. Kennedy was a pivotal executive in the early, and perhaps most dangerous, days of the...