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...
If there is one thing you can say about Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, it’s that she’s handled President Donald Trump quite well so far. This was by no means a give...
The recent federal government shutdown exposed a truth that is often overlooked: food insecurity among older adults remains one of our region’s most pressing and vulnerab...
A friend once complained to me that people would sigh and roll their eyes when she used a credit card to pay for her $3 coffee. This was about a decade ago, and I admit, ...
“There’s nothing more important to the league and its fans than the integrity of the competition.” So says Adam Silver, commissioner of the National Basketball Associatio...
