What if you could radically reduce how many people get sick from foodborne diseases like e.coli and salmonella and norovirus; one American in six (48 million people) gets sick, […]

In a recent Big Think interview, Daily Beast blogger Andrew Sullivan offered his advice and thoughts on blogging.  First, says Sullivan, you have to post at least twice a day […]

On Morning Joe this morning, Mavin Kalb and Deborah Kalb discussed their new book "Haunting Legacy," an examination of how Vietnam has shaped the thinking and policy of presidents over […]

So today at the ISI honors program we were graced with a beautiful presentation on  liberty in American poetry and song.  The classy and distinguished presenter asked the students to […]

83 year old T. Boone Pickens' C.V. reads like that of a small-to-medium-sized nation. How does he remain extraordinarily productive past the age when most people retire? 

When Captain America was defrosted from a block of ice floating in the North Atlantic in Avengers #4 (1964), writer (and now national treasure) Stan Lee used an old idea […]

Astrophysicist David Spiegel and physicist Edwin Turner say that the life here on Earth could be common, or it could be extremely rare—there's no reason to prefer one conclusion over the other. 

Why does anything exist at all? The idea that the universe simply appeared out of nothing is difficult enough; trying to conceive of nothingness is perhaps even harder.

Despite high hopes for a new physics from the world's largest particle collider, beyond a handful of unusual events, the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider are frustratingly ordinary.

Investments in renewable energy have been booming, but the government subsidies that have made renewable energy an attractive investment are bankrupting national budgets. 

Energy derived from oil reaches, quite literally, every aspect of our lives. From the food we eat, to how we move ourselves around, without oil, our lives would look very differently.

Countries including China, India and Iran are engaged in a new race to explore space. Efforts include building research centers, rockets, satellites and lunar rovers. 

I’ve spent the last two days at the Iowa Education Summit. Now that it’s over, I have a multitude of thoughts and observations swirling around in my head. Here are eight… […]

Earlier this summer I was feeling down in the dumps about libraries. I was spending the month of June in Flushing, Queens, a melting-pot neighborhood where the local library bustles […]

The first time you see the name Robert Henri, it’s natural to pronounce it “ahn-ree.” Although the artist was partly of French descent, he preferred “hen-rye,” perhaps as a nod […]

No matter how detailed the map, for some it will always be large enough to separate Us from Them  

So I'm spending the week speaking at and otherwise participating in the national honors program of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute--a conservative educational foundation. The students are spectacularly impressive. They come from […]

If you are 15 years old, 50 or 50 x 2 step away from the screen right now and go to a mirror and look…. Did you look carefully? Who […]

Earlier today many of the internet jihadi forums posted an official audio tape from the al-Malahim media wing, which released all AQAP's statements.  (A note of caution: if it doesn't […]