I just read Errol Morris's excellent book, Believing is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography) . Every bit of the book is...

The Daily Beast has a well-done short photo slideshow of 2011's most notorious fallen dictators . Remind yourself how far the world has ...

In honor of my wife and I leaving today for St. Martin, for our first vacation in years, here are some reassuring statistics about flying, a...

Sure, you knew that the world eradicated smallpox in 1979, but did you know polio has also been eliminated 99% worldwide? Bill Gates narrate...

Someone used the phrase "could crash and burn like the Titanic" when talking about the potential dangers of a project recently, an...

We are lucky to live in an era of history when water is not a concern for many of us: we can go about our daily lives without even thinking ...

Really great full-length article by Paul Harris in the Guardian/Observer last weekend. It talks about The Secret Peace and a few other rela...