In my life, I have been extraordinarily lucky. Between twenty and thirty years ago, I was in a car accident with my maternal grandmother whe...

Today is the end of the world, according to the Mayan calendar, or, at least, the end of the era of the Corn People， according to 2012: A ...

This post is dedicated to my amazing student known as Todd, who has memorized one of John F. Kennedy's speeches in a recognizable Massac...

Most people concur, Galileo invented the first documented thermoscope in about 1592. When informally surveyed by me, none of my Chinese frie...

As I sift through the commentary on the tragedy in Fairfield County, there seem to be two camps. One group blames guns and the other, mental...

It has been cold here. We received more snow here, prompting a British colleague to ask me when it would ever stop. The weather prediction...

Irresponsible reporting is not why I read the New York Times and Washington Post to the exclusion of other newspapers, but this article fr...