In 1897, 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial on Sept. 21, 1897. The...
“Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart”
In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.
This was the first ...
President Joe Biden turned 80 on Nov. 20, and so far, he has given every indication he plans to run for reelection in 2024. If he were to win, his second term would concl...
This week government scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a long-sought milestone in developing clean fusion energy. For the first time, the ...
The death by suicide of DJ, actor, dancer, father of three and all-around nice guy Stephen “tWitch” Boss has alarmed and saddened a nation. Not long before his death, tWi...
I once spent a week in a region of southern Sudan where almost none of the women covered their breasts, and then just two weeks later I flew to Iran, where women are requ...
Several weeks ago the artificial intelligence company OpenAI released ChatGPT, a language model software that aspires to the Holy Grail of interaction between humans and ...
Chances are if you’ve read the news in the past year, you’ve seen a headline like these: It's time to go nuclear. Mark Zuckerberg is choosing profit over children. We nee...
Japan isn’t known for being an aggressive country in the world of foreign affairs. Successive Japanese governments have taken pains to emphasize their peacelike nature, a...
Nuclear fusion, the combining of the tiniest element, hydrogen atoms, to produce tremendous amounts of clean energy, isn’t far fetched. The sun (like all stars) has been ...
