War in Ukraine: Chernobyl Update
March 12 2022 UPDATE Thirty-five years ago the world’s worst nuclear crisis occurred at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear facility. Today Chernobyl is back in Russian hands ! Russia’s incursion into the […]
March 12 2022 UPDATE Thirty-five years ago the world’s worst nuclear crisis occurred at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear facility. Today Chernobyl is back in Russian hands ! Russia’s incursion into the […]
Long before the pandemic of 2020 gripped over 120 countries – our Spring 2019 books selection looked at works that explore what is real, what is imagined, what is knowable. […]
Recent classics and new books look at the human condition– how we think, feel, remember and respond to people and powerful external forces. How are human emotions and behaviors being […]
Stories coming your way: A boatload of new and recent books, ridding ourselves of our plastic addiction, and lighter, more environmentally friendly ways to travel. And in April, we’ll celebrate […]
For Earth Week 2019 we will feature one “hero” each day, although we’ve found many more heroes than there are days in a week. Here’s who you will learn about: […]
The Spring 2019 books we are recommending ask us — what is real, what is imagined, what is knowable? Is our own experience shared by others, or does it only […]
It’s showtime! The sun and moon are putting on a spectacle today with an audience of hundreds of millions live viewers – and millions more online and watching the solar […]
U.S. pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement two days after causing a kerfuffle (a real word!) with the invented word covfefe. Here’s what Pulitzer-Prize-winning New Yorker contributor Elizabeth Kolbert has to […]
One of the world’s smartest and most popular scientists — check him out (below) on Twitter — Neil DeGrasse Tyson has issued a four-minute video to Americans about the future […]