The Worlds - lite

It's a question that bugged scientists for a very long time: why did it take so long for animal life to appear on Earth? Was life so f...

It cometh, at least in the northeast. It will be cold this weekend and there will be a brutal, cutting wind. And at the very same time, as...

We live in a heartless universe where no one is looking out for us except ourselves. And irony abounds. Never doubt this facet of human ex...

It's funny, isn't it? American religious leaders never say boo about gender equality. It just doesn't come up. In my whole life...

Twelve winners of the Nobel Peace Prize wrote a letter to Obama, urging him to release a full report on America's use of torture. Th...

Some days I don't blog. At times, this is because I'm writing fiction and don't have the time or energy to blog. But most ofte...

So let's see...we're nearly hysterical over Ebola after four infected people were seen in the United States. Um, okay. But we d...