What immediate circumstance led Edward Snowden to leak classified government information? Why did he become a whistleblower? What pushed him over the edge? Was there one awful secret about the National Security Agency that led […]
When he was a boy, yes. He lovingly studied the Bible, he sensed no contradiction between Catholicism and Judaism, he stopped eating pork, he wrote little songs to God and sang them as he walked […]
The high cost of college makes people think that most faculty are overpaid. Let me debunk this myth. Nearly all funds from recent tuition hikes, state-allocation increments, and record-breaking fund raising do not go to […]
All around we read stories about what happened. Interesting, lively stories of individuals who did dramatic things. But many of those stories are not true. Others are incomplete and misleading. And it’s not just on […]
I’ve never been to the Galápagos islands. Tourist guidebooks describe them as a beautiful tropical paradise, and some travelers speak of them as a Garden of Eden. But in 1835, when the young Charles Darwin […]
In 2011, the “Science Guy” from the Houston Chronicle, asked me to discuss a remarkable pair of anniversaries on the same day, April 12: the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War and the […]
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