Two stories anchor our oldest holiday. Both took place in times of division and deprivation. And both offer a hopeful note about who we can be when we try.
The first, of ...
There is a familiar saying that you can choose your friends, but not your family. For most of the year, that fact can feel like a blessing and a curse. During the holiday...
By the time James Watson died earlier this month at the age of 97, he was one of the world’s most famous — and infamous — scientists.
In 1953, he and three fellow researc...
The bedrock life principle, “the house always wins,” derives from the mathematical advantage casinos build into their games. But what if that wasn’t the price of admittan...
For something so admired, so synonymous with merit, the concept of intelligence is remarkably poorly understood. Our society operates on the assumption that people with g...
The crisp, short days and the multicolored leaves fluttering down mark a time of year that for me always means two things — one happy, one sad.
The happy one is our famil...
This month, I went to school for parent-teacher conferences. My second-grader’s self-evaluation form listed several categories: “I follow directions,” “I understand math,...
For every man older than 110, there are nine women. Before she died in August at age 117, supercentenarian Maria Branyas — the world’s oldest verified person — credited h...
Last week, a massive commercial vessel was hijacked 620 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia. Formally flagged to Malta, the Hellas Aphrodite is a Greek-owned tanker t...
When you're a leading scientist who thinks Big Tech is chasing the wrong AI breakthrough, you probably won’t last long at a company desperate to catch up with the herd. Y...
