A few months ago in a post, I mentioned a new type of prosthetic arm that can touch and feel. Suddenly, it seems like news on this front is ...

Pleasant surprise to run into a Steven Pinker quote randomly in Chipotle today. "We will never have a perfect world, but it's no...

I'm reading the classic Pulitzer-Prize-winner The Power Broker , a history of New York City as seen through the biography of Robert Mose...

Let's face it, 2014 was full of lamentable news events, and while I'm usually able to maintain an optimistic outlook by looking at t...

One of the data points from my book concerns the gender wage gap, showing the difference between the money a woman makes as compared to a ma...

I just finished Michael J. Fox's excellent memoir, Lucky Man . One of the things that struck me is how those of us who don't have a ...

While this is a blog of good news, I don't usually post "feel-good" uplifting stories, since I tend to prefer statistical evid...