Zachary Crippen: Manned space isn’t on the agenda, nation-building has lost its appeal, and huge government programs are hardly conservative. But there are upsides to national goals.

Jeff Bone: There’s a scientific reason why we get bored with our toys.

Henri Nouwen’s insight on the link between environment and behavior.

An article published last week in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (available online here) caused a hubbub that quite probably tops the list of hubbubs caused by any story coming out of that revered Minnesotan publication in the past decade. Due to a “wobble” that has shifted the earth’s alignment over the past several thousand years, the […]

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, in a land not so very far away, a young woman got so caught up in preparing for Christmas that her mind became all muddled. Somewhere in the midst of the cookies and the packages and the suitcases, she lost her capacity to think original thoughts […]