Essays
Aug 22nd 2015
The health benefits of aspirin have been appearing in scientific literature for several decades, including a protective effect in those at increased risk of cancer.
Aug 19th 2015
It has long been known that labels, such as mental health diagnoses, can lead people to jump to damaging and erroneous conclusions.
Aug 14th 2015
In many ways President Carter's greatest work has come after his presidency and has been mostly centered on giving back to the global community.
Aug 13th 2015
MELBOURNE – In 1809, Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, set to work on The Book of Fallacies.
Aug 13th 2015
Humanity is on course for a population greater than 11 billion by the end of this century, according to the latest analysis from the UN’s population division.
In a simp
Aug 12th 2015
Sol Sanders is among the last of a dying breed, an international journalist with access to a range of senior sources, some of them national leaders, some scoundrels, some both. Finally, at age 89, he has put the highlights of his life and career down on paper, pulling no punches.
Aug 10th 2015
Aug 4th 2015
Cars are one of the biggest threats to the planet.
Aug 3rd 2015
As the sustained media interest attests, Pope Francis's encyclical "Laudato Si" is a genui
Aug 3rd 2015
The pictures are sad and grotesque. An American dentist and his guide grinning over the remains of Cecil the Lion. Our sympathies run directly to the victim of the hunt, the lion.
Aug 2nd 2015
Not long ago, school children chose what they wanted to be when they grew up, and later selected the best college they could gain admission to, spent years gaining proficiency in their fields, and joined a company that had a need for their skills. Careers lasted lifetimes.
Aug 1st 2015
"There are more net jobs in the world today than ever before, after hundreds of years of technological innovation and hundreds of years of people predicting the death of work. The logic on this topic is crystal clear.
Jul 31st 2015
From Picasso’s The Young Ladies of Avignon to Munch’s The Scream, what was it about these paintings that arrested people’s attention upon viewing them, that cemented them in the canon of art history as iconic works?
In many cases, it’s because the artist incorporated a technique, form or style t
Jul 30th 2015
Art world sophisticates often casually dismiss the market for art as irrational and arbitrary.
Jul 30th 2015
The killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe has brought fresh attention to an entrenched, ongoing crisis in wildlife conservation.
As unsustainable global
Jul 24th 2015
The discovery of Kepler-452b is not likely to see the public swoon with a collective r
Jul 21st 2015
O.K., I admit it: I have resumed a love affair begun more than four decades ago. The object of my affection -- and I should add, also of my wife's -- is Finland, a country where we once lived when I was researching my doctoral dissertation.
Jul 19th 2015
What would Voltaire make of his uncertain place in the collective American consciousness today?
Jul 13th 2015
Greece is in desperate trouble, but at least its survival as a nation is assured. In contrast, the UK might very well cease to exist within the next decade or so. In its place, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland could emerge as completely independent nations.