Any trip to the dark night skies of our Southern California deserts reveals a vista full of wonder and mystery — riddles that astrophysicists like myself spend our days unraveling. I am fortunate to study how the first galaxies formed … Continued
Before Poland’s illiberal Law and Justice party came to power in 2015, the country had been deep in a reckoning over its role in the Holocaust. In 2000, historian Jan Gross published an explosive book, “Neighbors,” about a 1941 massacre … Continued
For 10 years, Pat Anderson has been running a nonprofit from her home, spending upward of 40 hours a week knitting, packaging and sending products to her valued network of women, all by hand. Anderson, 92, retired from work in … Continued
Twelve days of the Minnesota State Fair means the Fairgrounds are open for 190 hours, which is 11,400 minutes, which means that out of the 3,829 activities on the Fair’s official schedule, we can do each one for 2 minutes … Continued
Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. director of national intelligence, admittedly struck the wrong note in a melodramatic video she put out after visiting Hiroshima, which was destroyed by an atomic bomb 80 years ago. “As we stand here today, closer to … Continued