Every now and then, death does manage to make it through, to reach us and cause us to reflect, generally, if there’s a sense of personal connection and even when it's not a close, personal relationship.

That’s how this year’s December-into-January time period felt to me — like it was a “timeout” between last year and this year.

In as brief a manner as I could, I tried to hit all the usual talking points, first off explaining that unlike nuclear fission — which splits atoms apart to release energy — fusion joins atoms together. It is a safer, much more efficient means of energy production.

In as brief a manner as I could, I tried to hit all the usual talking points, first off explaining that unlike nuclear fission — which splits atoms apart to release energy — fusion joins atoms together. It is a safer, much more efficient means of energy production.

Turns out, they were talking about the personality of the United States of America. And according to researchers, the pandemic changed the trajectory of that personality.

The man at the bar leaned over and said, “Tell me something about yourself that you’re pretty sure no one else in this place can say.”

Efforts to control access to guns and what kind of gun a person can get have long been thwarted in the name of the 2nd Amendment.

I’m also hoping that this notion of complementarity may serve as a little reminder: that it is possible for us, as individuals and as a group or a society, to hold and allow for seemingly contradictory positions and viewpoints on various issues so as to help bridge social and political divisions. 

Some might think it a simple bout of emotionalism on my part, wishful thinking or an illusory flight of fancy, but I think that if the whole universe can appear in a flash out of nowhere from a spontaneous explosion ...

That long, thin, whitish cloud of stars, which we commonly call the Milky Way, is actually the center of the Milky Way. The reason it appears so bright and “milky” is because we’re looking through ...