by PAUL RATNER
Who are the world’s top predators? It’s not humans, killer whales or tigers. The creatures that kill and consume the most amount...
by PAUL RATNER
A powerful anesthetic, used as an animal tranquilizer and an illicit club drug, has been receiving growing attention for its potential to...
by JOSEPH F. COUGHLIN
My mother turned sharply, red-faced, yelling at me to “stop being a noodge!” Shopping with my mother as a young boy...
Doing astronomy may be the closest activity we have to science-for-science’s-sake — gazing across endless distances to view objects that aren’t in the location...
by JAG BHALLA
1. Life’s games are not all “red in tooth and claw” fights. And you need no brain to see that a “war...
by ROBBY BERMAN
A newly released study shows that by eating a vegetarian diet, Buddhists in China annually prevent roughly 40 million tons of greenhouse...
by PHILIP PERRY
The rule is, if you have to explain the joke, it isn’t funny anymore. But what about humor in general? Why do...
by DEREK BERES
For much of history the discussion of mental health was considered taboo. People simply “weren’t right,” or, in a mystical-psychological take, they...
by PHILIP PERRY
Few things are infuriating as traffic. Think about all the hours lost over a lifetime just sitting there, instead of being home,...
Many of us worry about getting older. We worry we will miss our youth, or that our health will decline and leave us miserable....
