Increasingly, I find myself musing on the future of the human family. The challenge is twofold, looming climate catastrophe and the growing ...

There are three great scientific mysteries. Why is there something rather than nothing? Nobody knows. We do know that the universe emerged f...

On Saturday, August 23, I stumbled on a program on Radio Lab that caught my attention.   I rarely listen to the radio on Saturday afternoon,...

Memory can be whimsical and downright inattentive.   It’s so easy to forget important, even wonderful, things.   It’s eas...

  Nothing is more obvious in the business of living than our capacity for action. A casual assessment of ourselves at almost any time is lik...

About 22 or so months ago I acquired a rather strange habit.   Every day at some time I would get on YouTube and do two things.   I woul...

 Is there any reason to believe that human beings have reached the climax of their evolutionary potential? Or, as a species, is there room f...

Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States, recently declared that a miracle happened in Rhode Island. The o...

Science has not only given us ways to understand nature but also to channel nature toward improving the quality of life, at least for some...

The point at which an extreme or transcendent change becomes possible is known as a “singularity.” There are mathematical, gravi...

As for philosophy, I’ve been on the trail of the mind-body problem. What could be more crucial? Our own minds—in effect, ourselves—what we c...

 The near-death experience (NDE) is a very strange phenomenon.   Thanks to modern resuscitation technology, it is possible to revive people ...

 There are three great scientific mysteries. Why is there something rather than nothing? Nobody knows. We do know that our universe started,...