Global warming threatens the planet in many ways, with some dangers more clear and present, while others are impossible to imagine. We don’t know what we don’t know, the climate experts say. But we do know certain low-lying places... Read More

Add this to the reasons experts warn us not to spend too much time with smart phones: By heavily relying on Google Maps and other navigational apps, you will definitely weaken the area of your brain that controls your sense of direction.... Read More

Restaurants rock! Find another business that combines such a panoply of pleasures: exquisite food, hip bar scenes, edgy architecture, engaging employees who serve you, and that indefinable special sauce that elevates a dining experience... Read More

In the late 1800s, the wonders of electricity transformed the American landscape—streetlights, streetcars, engines in factories—in perhaps human history’s greatest game-changing technology. And in the following handful of decades,... Read More

Imagine owning a little farm with cows, goats, pigs, and chickens. In your daily chores, you often catch yourself smiling at the personalities of your animals and even give them pet names based on their antics. Intellectually, your role... Read More

The ironic fact that so many powerful and successful contemporary women refuse to identify as feminists—the same feminist movement that did so much to help these women achieve their empowered status in the first place—points to... Read More

Let’s take a moment to look back at the twentieth century in order to appreciate the stunning changes wrought by the two great wars. “Appreciate” may be the wrong word in solemn remembrance of the Holocaust, but from the standpoint... Read More

It’s not your imagination—you’ve been hearing and reading a whole lot more about autism in the past few years. The reason is because the medical industry didn’t have a clue about the disease until quite recently. Which points to... Read More