In this age of open discussion about the penises of a supreme court justice and the nation’s president, perhaps it’s…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently unveiled a “Better Health” campaign to combat obesity. The announcement was prompted by Johnson’s…
STARS ON THE MOVE In “New View of the Milky Way,” Mark J. Reid and Xing-Wu Zheng state that they…
In college, I learned about the myriad logical fallacies that pervade our world. Good logic, it turned out, was pretty…
Today an e-mail chain I’m on, where contributors swap wacky physics theories, veered into wacky political theories. Chinese communists, one…
Another epidemic besides COVID-19 stalks the land. This one takes a heavy toll on the young. It has been raging…
Yousuf El-Jayyousi, a junior engineering student at the University of Missouri, wanted guidance and reassurance that it would be safe…
Hundreds of millions of years ago, reptilian predators called ichthyosaurs swam the seas. Their fossils look fearsome. But paleobiologist Ryosuke…
With the economy tanking, unemployment skyrocketing, schools slamming their doors and the Big Ten and PAC-12 conferences canceling fall football,…
This past May, Harvard University (where I teach) issued a report on its relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey…