Everyone likes to make New Year's resolutions. Usually it isn't about selfishness but about being a better person. In science, of c...

Cancer and the environment There is a very good story in the New York Times by Gina Kolata, one of their long-standing best science writers...

This week on The Forum , a BBC radio program, Bridget Kendall presented a show on translation -- specifically, the translation of Chinese po...

So, to 'celebrate' the holiday of peace, some guy tried to blow up a passenger plane on Christmas. That's religion for you! ...

Ken was very pleased to receive The Complete Far Side for Christmas.  He loved Walt Kelly's Pogo when he was growing up, and the only o...

Many if not most human cultures have some kind of celebration at around the beginning of winter -- our holiday season.  Not just a time for ...

Now, those of you who worry about the turkeys that have been slaughtered for Christmas, or the pig whose ham many people will be dining on, ...