Regardless of what we do for a living or where we live, to some extent we are all connected by the demons of our digital world. According...

Here in Lake Woebegone, spring has arrived. Flowers are blooming, grasses growing, farmers are plowing and planting, and we lovingly...

What do you fear? In your quiet moments. In ancient Rome, when the conquering generals would return to Rome following their victory in...

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. At the risk of botching a...

The geopolitical chaos of the last several days in Ukraine may well be some of the most significant events of our lifetime as powerful as...

A casual comment by a colleague came out of the blue: “I am just tired of the pandemic, tired of the political discourse, tired of this...

An international chess game is brewing as Russia has positioned more than 100,000 troops close to the border with Ukraine. Any further...

A classic laboratory experiment involving rodents goes something like this. These smart little caged rats quickly figure out if they...

The virus variants affect us all, and our lives hang in the balance Growing up in the murky world of thoroughbred racing on the East...

The most reprinted newspaper editorial in the English language appeared in the September 1897 New York Sun when eight-year-old Virginia...

Our world plummeted down the rabbit hole of chaos in March 2020 when the nightmare of COVID disintegrated our daily lives. With the...

It’s World Series time. And here is your seasonally appropriate story. We Americans are often intrigued by that athlete, performer, that...

First, some numbers. In 1962, 71% of women ages 15 to 44 married. By 2019 this number was down to 42%. In 1962, 5% of women ages 30 to 34...

A brisk horizontal wind swept through our community in September. Not quite a tornado, but the winds toppled large trees, pulled down...

Would You Do This If You Thought You'd Get Cancer? Let us imagine a football stadium. We don’t have to imagine because on any given...

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Stevie has the personality, the looks, the anatomy, the architecture to be, without question, a winning performer. She has the right...

We're playing the same risky game with a deadly pandemic. We know what works. We know how to institute a game-winning strategy, but in...

Troubling times. With COVID we have taken many steps forward toward eradicating this plague, yet now we are taking steps backward as...

We have become too complacent about the risks from COVID. The results can be disastrous. Let's look at some prudent guidelines.